I finally carved out enough time to read the Washington Post series on the near-death of AIG. It's quite good, has interviews with many central figures. And it's told not in black and white, but shades of grey, the villains unclear.

Though there certainly were those who worried:

Park spelled out his reasoning in meetings and conversations with colleagues over the next several weeks. It was as if he had scratched the needle across an old record album at full volume.

And those who did not:

"It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing $1 in any of those transactions," Cassano said.

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