Fatal risk: A cautionary tale of AIG’s corporate suicide

The collapse of first Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers in 2008 were the emblematic events that triggered the financial crisis. But those companies were involved in investment banking, an inherently risky business. The demise of AIG, an insurance company that was for a long time judged to be an unimpeachable credit, was even more astonishing.

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