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Guest Post: The Banks Were Profitable In January And February Thanks To... AIG 
naked capitalism | by Tyler Durden(noreply@blogger.com) | Sun, Mar 29
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AIG, knowing it would need to ask for much more capital from the Treasury imminently, decided to throw in the towel, and gifted major bank counter-parties with trades which were egregiously profitable to the banks, and even more egregiously money losing to the U.S. taxpayers, who had to du...
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