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“Who Will Regulate AIG? Who Knows”

“There is a section of today’s second quarter filing from AIG that reads like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. For those out there who need a reminder, in Choose Your Adventure books readers get to choose what happens to the main character by deciding to turn to one page or another. “If you decide…

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“There is a section of today’s second quarter filing from AIG that reads like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.

For those out there who need a reminder, in Choose Your Adventure books readers get to choose what happens to the main character by deciding to turn to one page or another. “If you decide to stab the dragon, turn to page 5. If you decide to run away, turn to page 6.”” Read more.

Michael Corkery
Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2010.
 

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