04 Nov Washington Post: AIG Bailout

…Echoing some other experts, Ann Rutledge, a credit derivatives expert and founding principal of R&R Consulting, said she is not sure how badly the financial system would have been rocked if the government had let AIG file for bankruptcy protection. But she fears that the government is papering over the problem with a quick fix that was not well planned.

“What we see now are a lot of games by the government to keep these institutions going with a lot of cash,” she said. “This is to fill holes in companies’ balance sheets, and they’re trying to hold at bay the charges that our financial system is insolvent.”

Read the rest of the article at The Washington Post, “Effectiveness of AIG’s $143 Billion Rescue Questioned,” by Carol D. Leonning.