Ben Bernanke actually said...

We felt there was no alternative. Throughout the restructuring, we have tried to do everything we can to make sure that the main focus of the company... is to make the company viable enough that it can sell itself off, sell off its non-core businesses, and repay the taxpayers as soon as possible.

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Bernanke outlines the objective of restructuring AIG to repay taxpayers.

03/02/2009

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