What do you do when you absolutely, positively have to raise over fifty billion dollars overnight? If you’re AIG, you hock another 20 billion of your assets and then scramble madly for the rest. Thanks to Lolo, I have a suggestion for how they can raise the rest of it:
C’mon, there’s got to be SOMETHING in Matthew Lesko’s book of big government grants. If any of you DC’ers see him on the metro today and can get him to give LOLFed an exclusive quote on the AIG debacle, there is a glittering prize in it for you. ‘Cuz I don’t think that other 35 bil is gonna come if they don’t get government help.
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Matthew Lesko // Oct 22, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“if there’s enough money to pull the big banks and the stock market out of a plummet, there’s enough to fund smaller entrepreneurs,”
Not quite exclusive but it will do