{"id":193808,"date":"2008-11-15T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/not-enough-bullets-aig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:16:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-aig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/not-enough-bullets-aig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets:  AIG, the Gift That Keeps on Giving Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIG is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/13\/AR2008111304446.html?hpid=topnews\">paying $503 million in deferred compensation to its top employees<\/a>, because it needs to, &#8220;keep valuable workers from exiting the troubled insurance giant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, the company in bankrupt.  It&#8217;s sucked up hundreds of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">billions<\/span> of dollars from the federal government, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">it still needs more<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Could someone <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">please<\/span> explain to me how getting a company <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this<\/span> deep in a hole makes senior management &#8220;valuable&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIG is paying $503 million in deferred compensation to its top employees, because it needs to, &#8220;keep valuable workers from exiting the troubled insurance giant.&#8221; Let&#8217;s see, the company in bankrupt. It&#8217;s sucked up hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal government, and it still needs more. Could someone please explain to me how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1045,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-insurance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}