Saturday, January 09, 2010

Spitzer: AIG is the center of the Wall Street web

HuffPost reports on a recent Ed Show interview with Eliot Spitzer. With regard to getting to the heart of the problems on Wall Street, Spitzer is among the best. Some of his comments on The Ed Show:

"What many of us have been saying for quite some time right now is that AIG is the center of the web of the entire economic cataclysm on Wall Street and the only way to understand what happened is to go through those emails. The amazing thing Ed, is we own the company. Taxpayers own the company. it is our right to understand what is being done with our money, what happened, what led to this cataclysm and only from that will we understand what did Tim Geithner do. The New York Fed was instrumental in creating the structure that failed. Tim Geithner was the president of the fed. You go back to who chose him to be there it was the head of the leaders of the New York investment banks that have benefited from the bailout.... Let's not jump to conclusions. But I can tell you... one thing with absolute certainty. Until we get every one of those emails. We Will not know..."

See the full interview here:

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Did they get Ashley Dupre's opinion on this....its amazing that this guy is on TV...