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Welcome to the Best of Left Podcast with clips today from the Daily Show, NPR, Tom Hartman,

the Young Turks, the Onion Radio News, and Slate.com.

Remember last fall, the economic crisis, the entire financial system, the current collapse,

everyone pretty certain, one thing.

We need legislation that decisively addresses the troubled assets now clogging the financial system.

The risk of doing nothing is economic catastrophe.

It's a terrible situation and we need to fix it.

$850 billion in federal bailout money later.

Let's check in for an update on how those reforms are going in tonight's.

Perfect.

Of course, one of the main villains in the crisis was AIG,

a company which overextended themselves by writing banks, billions, and unpayable financial insurance contracts,

thus destabilizing our entire economy.

They were f***ed.

So, for $180 billion, the government took them over, and AIG is making some radical changes.

I think the AIG name is so thoroughly wounded, we've already begun the rebranding process to AIU.

$180 billion and all you come up with is, what do we change a letter?

Talk about buying a vowel.

You know what the U stands for? You've got some f***ing balls.

But all right, AIG, you fixed.

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