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...insurance-like derivatives. AIG paid out an additional $43.7 billion to many of the same banks, which were also customers of the securities-lending operation run out of AIG's insurance division. In this case, AIG managed to take a business specifically designed to be low risk, low return and amp it into another dicey venture - with taxpayers on the hook...
...hand, no one wants taxpayer money handed indiscriminately to Wall Street investors with no hope of return. On the other, if the program doesn't encourage buyers to participate not only will the program fail, the markets could suffer a mini-panic, just as they did when the plan was unveiled with no details in mid-February...
...Mosquito Coast In return for oil, natural gas, timber, hydropower, gemstones, cash crops and a periodic table's worth of minerals, countries like China, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea are propping up - and massively enriching - Burma's top brass. In the first nine months of 2008, foreign investment in Burma almost doubled year on year to nearly $1 billion, according to government figures that don't even take into account significant underground economic activity. Burma today is estimated to produce 90% of the world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia...
...been seen since. "They close our ears and they close our mouths," says an Arakanese political dissident, noting the heavy Burmese security presence that can make even casual conversation at a teahouse fraught. "And now, they are taking our treasures, our oil and gas. What do we get in return? Nothing...
...actually contracted more dramatically than the world economy as a whole, because its lifeblood, private-sector trade finance, has dried up. This is fixable, since most governments have export-credit organizations dedicated to trade finance. Governments should instruct them to jump-start trade flows until private sector financiers return...