Following the latest $37.8 Billion from taxpayers, AIG executives take another expensive trip : RSS 2.0http://www.plime.com/en-usplime.com2009, plime.com.Plime/1http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssFollowing the latest $37.8 Billion from taxpayers, AIG executives take another expensive trip : RSS 2.0http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gifhttp://www.plime.com/<![CDATA[Following the latest $37.8 Billion from taxpayers, AIG executives take another expensive trip]]>$86,000 for a hunting trip to England]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79626/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79626/1/plime.com
<![CDATA[$376 Billion in Chinese Agency Bond Holdings Subject to U.S. Taxpayer Bailout ]]>"A bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics."]]>http://www.plime.com/world/l/68458/1/http://www.plime.com/world/l/68458/1/plime.com <![CDATA[GM To Send $1B Of Bailout Money To Brazil]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82836/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82836/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Japanese Two Story Transforming RV Takes Road Trip Across Japan]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83688/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83688/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Fuel prices rise as demand drops]]>Big Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and others are able to sidestep the regulations that limit investments in commodities such as oil, and they are investing on behalf of pension funds, endowments, hedge funds, and other big institutional investors, in part as a hedge against inflation.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/117503/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/117503/1/plime.com <![CDATA[17-Month Trip In Solar Taxi Ends]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/83720/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/83720/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Pricey lunch lands free trip to Rome]]>http://www.plime.com/world/l/129792/1/http://www.plime.com/world/l/129792/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Banks now DECLINING to say how they are spending the bailout money]]>
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/86131/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/86131/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Follow the leader... Flock of cranes learn to migrate by following a microlight aircraft]]>
Ever since they were hatched, they've been tricked into believing this featherless microlight is the parent they should follow.

But it's not some cruel joke by the chap in the yellow helmet. It is part of a project which conservationists hope will safeguard the species.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108776/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108776/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Brother Can You Spare $300 Billion ?]]>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82504/1/http://www.plime.com/world/l/82504/1/plime.com <![CDATA[What $315 Billion looks like.]]>
Originally posted here]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79036/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79036/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Pepsi ordered to pay one BILLION dollars to a couple of dudes in Waukesha, Wisconsin]]>
For their part, Pepsi (who's lawyers never showed up for the trial) claims the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit. But also that they weren't aware of the lawsuit until after the ruling.

I'd LOVE to see the board meeting where they talk about this one!]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135220/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135220/1/plime.com <![CDATA[$134 BILLION dollars - in a SUITCASE]]>
It is either the biggest smuggling operation in history -- or a fraud of equally impressive proportions. Italian customs officials stopped two men at the Swiss border carrying bonds worth $134 billion (95.8 billion euros).]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/123049/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/123049/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Automakers take luxury jet to beg for money]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82321/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82321/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Secrets of survival during a New Year trip]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8249/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8249/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Bank error leaves man $208 billion overdrawn]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87737/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87737/1/plime.com <![CDATA[The Other (Stealth) Bailout]]>
I don't know how I missed this .. you take a little break, and wham ... all hell breaks loose.Oh well, what's another 6 or 7 hundred billion.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78158/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78158/1/plime.com <![CDATA[French Man Pulls One of the Biggest Fraud Schemes]]>The catch? He did it all alone. What could one man need $7 Billion for?

...Apparently He had a lot of Stuff to Buy. "I'd Like 5 Tons of Tooth Paste."]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48221/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48221/1/plime.com <![CDATA[China law officials punished for fake Finnish trip]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30516/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30516/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Obama Enlists Major Powers to Aid Poor Farmers With $15 Billion ]]>If the assistance is delivered and is in fact mostly new money, it will constitute the largest international effort in decades to combat hunger.]]>http://www.plime.com/world/l/127133/1/http://www.plime.com/world/l/127133/1/plime.com <![CDATA[How is your Social Security money being spent?]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/127980/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/127980/1/plime.com