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		<title><![CDATA[Memo to Eliot Spitzer on AIG: Don't Just Read Email, Pick Up the Phone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's New York TimesÂ former New York Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer suggestsÂ one surefire way to find out the story behind the September 2008 deal that saved American International Group and, arguably, bailed out Goldman Sachs and other major banks:Â make public the emails that passed between these parties. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:49:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consider Conseco]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conseco sells health insuranceÂ and other products, but until recently most investors considered it an ailing company. Tucked away in the quiet corner of Carmel, Indiana, Conseco bounced from misadventure to bankruptcy. Although it always paid its claims, if ever there was an insurer that looked like its pockets were empty,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:35:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Farmers Insurance Recommends Round Rock If You Want to Feel Secure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are any number of websites that will scare you with a list of the most unsafe places in the nation; cities with drug problems and high unemployment.    Thank goodness for Farmers Insurance Group. Â It has found the most "secure"Â places to live in this country, based on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:01:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG: The Good, the Bad, and the Convoluted]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American International Group has more than its share of headlines each week, and it's tough to decipher them all. The insurer was run for more than 30 years by former CEO Hank Greenberg as a puzzle only he could solve, and the confusion left behind when he was ousted in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:36:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Warms Up to Florida and Decides to Stay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battling between Florida and its insurers has been notorious and nasty, but perhaps the Yuletide season has made them a little nicer. At any rate, the year-long feud between Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat, and State Farm, the nation's largest home insurer, finally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:53:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insuring an Image: What if Woods Can't Deliver the Goods?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good definition of an insurer is one who profits from the misfortune of others. That's been true since the days when ships lost their cargo to pirates in the 1600s. And it's just as true today when corporations lose millions because celebrity endorsers are caught in the act. But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:01:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Misadventures of Moody's: Touting The Hartford, Mangling MetLife]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most analysts don't have the access to the company financial records that Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch do when they formulate their credit ratings. Theoretically that should make them smarter than the rest of us.    But only theoretically. Each of the three big rating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:33:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Kill AIG Now' Is Starting to Catch On]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Kill AIG now," has been said before, but seldom as coherently as it's expressed by Eli Lehrer, director of the Center on Risk, Regulation and Markets.    Lehrer works for the Heartland Institute, a Conservative think tank, but don't hold that against him. While he has distinct libertarian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:04:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Executives Get Bonuses Courtesy of Feinberg]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama complained about Wall Street "fat cats" on CBS's 60 Minutes, but actions taken this past week by pay czar Kenneth Feinberg won't lessen the weight gain.    Earlier this fall, Feinberg laid down the law to executives of financial companies that had been bailed out by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:11:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insuring the Road to Splitsville: Does It Make Sense?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance companies offer wedding insurance, but insurers might also want to provide married couples with divorce insurance just in case the best made plans don't work out, suggests J. Christopher Westland, a professor of "information and decision sciences." This University of Illinois educator has been hard at work projecting the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:31:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs: Smarter Than the Average AIG]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal did an analysis of the mortgage-related trades that investment bank Goldman Sachs conducted with then giant insurer American International Group during the years leading up to its meltdown in early 2008. Undoubtedly the Journal wanted to show that Goldman did something nefarious. But the unexpected result:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:25:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurance Regulators Aren't Warming Up to Global Warming]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often the ruling body of the U.S. insurance industry, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC, has a good idea. But then they think better of it and reverse course. Such an idea was the Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure SurveyÂ that asked insurers about their efforts - or lack...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:10:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurers Behaving Badly: USAA, The Hartford and Lincoln National]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the unraveling of American International Group no one seems to have any sympathy for insurance companies that find loopholes in laws they are supposed to obey, or laws they have gotten passed exempting themselves.    So stories in today's Wall Street Journal Â should, at the very least,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:19:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Colorado State University Makes an Early-Bird Hurricane Prediction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone makes jokes about the meteorologist being wrong. And often they're right. Weather people are not perfect at predicting what's going to happen, even when it's blowing across the plains straight at them. Mountains stand in the way, turbulent air currents can push it off in a different direction, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:35:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Sued by Its Own Executive as Tragedy Turns to Farce]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005447/aig-sued-by-its-own-executive-as-tragedy-turns-to-farce/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The daily soap opera of American International Group is being watched almost as much as the unfolding Tiger Woods saga. In the synopsis of the latest episode, an AIG executive is suing the company for his benefits, while the only AIG product that appears to have made a comeback is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:08:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Insurers 'Emerge from the Storm,' Pricewaterhouse Predicts Rocky Road]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005406/as-insurers-emerge-from-the-storm-pricewaterhouse-predicts-rocky-road/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurers weathered the financial meltdown of 2008 and the recession of 2009, but over the next five years they face more stringent regulation, higher taxes, and survival of the fittest, says an industry consultant.    Yesterday the accounting and consulting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers issued "Emerging from the Storm:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:06:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We're Not AIG! Insurers Bristle at Being Charged for 'Systemic Risk']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005398/were-not-aig-insurers-bristle-at-being-charged-for-systemic-risk/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurers rarely unite on anything, but they definitely see eye-to-eye on a proposed plan by Congress to set up a fund that would provide $100 billion in backup in case of another debacle like American International Group.    AIG's collapse nearly brought down the financial system due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:07:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outlook for Life Insurers Better Than Property Insurers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2010 draws near it seems that anyone placing bets on the insurance industry would be better off putting money on the life insurers rather than the property casualty industry.    Yesterday MetLife, the nation's largest life insurer - although it does sell property casualty on the side...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:49:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Puts the Squeeze on Pay Czar Feinberg]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's probably no accident that American International Group is leaking news to The Wall Street Journal about the internal dissent at this once giant insurance company. In fact, it's starting to sound like a soap opera.    First, CEO Robert Benmosche was reportedly ready to quit. Then, after...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:22:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Willis Group CEO Joe Plumeri to Run a Kinder, Gentler Company]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the worst recession many of us have ever seen, CEO's have become hard.Â TheyÂ eke out profits by firing as many people as possible and forcing those who remain to work twice as much.    So when Joseph Plumeri (who unlike the rest of his family...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:48:56 -0800</pubDate>
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