I'm not going to feel bad for the higher-ups that should have seen this coming, but yeah, a lot people are losing jobs and their savings due to these various failures.
thats what i'm afraid of. ironically i decided over the weekend that i wanted to put some money in a CD with a good rate and visit my fidelity advisor to get into some mutual funds but yesterday mornings news kinda killed those plans
AIG is probably too big to let fail. What I can't make any sense out of is why the government would bail out Bear Sterns but let Lehman Brothers and AIG go into insolvency. If I had to pick one to save, it would have to be AIG as they are more crucial to the common folk than Bear. The government and FED isn't making much sense