February 28, 2012

Why Treasury Is Being So Nice to AIG

Felix Salmon, Reuters

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Andrew Ross Sorkin today asks why Treasury is letting AIG keep billions of dollars in net operating losses, rather than forcing it to pay income tax. I’ll hazard a guess at one part of the answer, as informed by my conversation with Jim Millstein in October 2010. . .

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