The American International Group Inc. has announced that they have agreed on a plan to repay the 100 billion dollars in taxpayer money they still owe from their bailout in 2008. This plan which proposes that the government's ownership of AIG stocks increase to 92% hopes to end the biggest bailout of the financial crisis. The strategic and positive plan to repay the government requires that the Treasury Department convert stocks worth 49.1 billion dollars into a common AIG stock that will be sold according to the the Los Angeles Times. The New York Times took a more skeptical take on the situation by investigating the issue that "the plan offers no clear sense of whether taxpayers will end up with a gain or loss." A more concise view was taken by USA Today who delivered general information regarding the matter, included in the other two articles; however, remained neutral.
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