Re the A I G ....Personally I thought it was a good move by the Fed. The alternatives didn't look good in my opinion. And really .. in the long run it is the Federal Reserve System itself that is the cause of this whole mess. I don't think the average person fully realizes that it is NOT the Gov. that prints the currency. Such a Colossal Nerve, against the U.S. Constitution. The Fed prints the currency and makes the money supply and then LENDS it to the U.S. Gov. with an interest tag on it. How ridiculous is that ??? Actually now the Chinese OWN America. They have bought up huge amounts of the U.S. debt and Americans are now paying interest to CHINA !!!!!!!! And of course those Chinese are very clever. They flood the U.S. with goods produced by cheap labor and in return they get huge amounts of U.S. Bucks. With these they buy America. This is a Financial war and the U.S. is currently losing. Oh well. Buy gold now, or gold stocks.