If you are interested in learning the nitty gritty details about how AIG’s Financial Product division (AIGFP as it came to be known), ended up fucking all of us then the place to start reading is the The Big Picture...... He has an index of where to read. As usual, he does a great job

Here's one for laughs. In a notice filed Thursday in bankruptcy court in New York, Judge James Peck ordered a unit of Barclays PLC, which acquired parts of Lehman last September, to return hundreds of T-shirts, stress balls???? (pictured upper left). WTF are stress balls? The Sydney Morning Herald has the goods...but actually these are not AIG remants but Lehman via Barclay's. Banks seem to be at the bottom of all the grief. Here's a stress ball site.