Andrew Ross Sorkin - In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I...

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In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Deutsche Übersetzung

In der märchenhaften Version der Rettung von Lehman wäre der nächste Domino, A. I. G., noch schwerer gefallen. Wenn die Politik, Lehman zu retten, schlecht war, würde die Politik von A.I.G. wäre schlimmer gewesen Und das systemische Risiko, dass ein Ausfall von A.I.G. Es war um Größenordnungen größer als der Zusammenbruch von Lehman.

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