His excuse was that the Fed didn't have oversight of AIG or Lehman Brothers, and if the Fed had more powers they would have seen the crisis coming.
他的借口是美联储对于AIG和雷曼兄弟没有监管，如果美联储有更多的精力，他们也许能预见到危机的到来。
If the assets increase in value or pay off over time, the Fed and AIG will share the benefits, with most of the upside going to taxpayers.
如果这些资产的价值以后实现上涨或赢利，Fed和AIG将分享收益，其中大部分会落入纳税人手中。
They thought Lehman brothers was so much smaller than AIG or bear Stearns, they could afford to let it fail.
他们觉得雷曼兄弟比美国国际集团(AIG)或贝尔斯登(Bear Stearns)规模小得多，他们可以承担任由其崩溃的后果。
But his message had to compete for attention with news that the giant insurance company American International Group,or AIG, paid out $165 million in bonuses to employees after the government agreed to bail out the financially troubled company.
VOA: standard.2009.03.21
On Tuesday,Geithner told Congress that the government must have the authority to seize non-bank entities, arguing that massive destabilizing dangers can come from financial institutions - a lesson learned from the rescue of American International Group,or AIG, a giant insurer that received a $180 billion taxpayer bailout.
VOA: standard.2009.03.25
AIG CEO Liddy's testimony Wednesday to the House committee comes as lawmakers absorb details of the company pay outs, including a report from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that 73 AIG employees received bonus checks of $1 million or more.
VOA: standard.2009.03.17
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