AIG’s change from life insurance company to toxic asset holder

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Markets opened lower this morning after news that the federal government is bailing out insurance giant AIG for the fourth time. The announcement came on the heels of AIG posting a $62 billion loss, the biggest quarterly loss in history. Our friend Dan Gross from Newsweek joins us to discuss the implications of this new $30 million taxpayer-funded bailout. He just wrote Dumb Money: How our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation.

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