"IfAIG had been pressuredto putsome of its divisionsinto bankruptcy, this crisiscould have beenaverted," saidEliLehrer, seniorfellow attheCompetitiveEnterpriseInstitute in Washington.
Recently, EliLehrer of the pro-market R Street Institute made another suggestion: Instead of simply attacking federal loan guarantees for clean-tech firms such as Solyndra, the federal government should get out of the business of subsidizing the energy sector entirely.