Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, said,
"AIG exploited a huge gap in the regulatory system. There was no
oversight of the financial products division (referred to as "AIG
FP" in the text). This was a hedge fund, basically, that was
attached to a large and stable insurance company, made huge numbers
of irresponsible bets...if there's a single episode in this entire
18 months that has made me more angry, I can't think of one, than
AIG" (March...