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SHUKKE and THE MONTY HALL DILEMMA (or DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB!)
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Tomorrow, Dec. 20, 2008 we'll have our all-day Zen thing at Hill Street Center (details at link to your left). There will be no prepared lunch this time. I'll be having a peanut butter sandwich at HSC. Others are welcome to join me. But bring your own sandwiches.
Also, I have updated my tour dates (link also to your left). If you want me to come to your town, please write me at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll try to work it out. I will have a lot of available dates (see below for details on that).
Now the article:
Shukke (spelled 出家 in Chinese characters) means leaving home and family. In the olden days, Buddhists monks literally left everything behind when they joined the order. These days the word shukke mainly refers to a ceremony that symbolically represents that act, although the monks themselves often continue to live as they did before.
Different lineages of Buddhism handle it in different ways. I've heard that in Thailand the custom is that one literally leaves home and family for a time but then comes back after a proscribed period. Sort of like doing a tour of duty in the armed forces. In Japanese-style Zen, though, it's pretty rare to actually leave everything behind.
Whatever. I'm bringing it up today because yesterday I left my family of 14 years. For the past year I've been in a state of limbo with the Japanese monster movie company that sent me to Los Angeles to be their liaison. I got laid off at the end of 2007. But at the beginning of 2008 they said they wanted me back to work on a film project in the USA and so I began working for them again in a limited capacity. That film project never quite got off the ground. In September I went and met with them and they asked me to come back to Japan to do essentially the same job I used to do when I last lived there.
But I wasn't really interested in doing that job again and, as much as I love Japan, I didn't really feel like moving back there. Everybody keeps saying how the US economy is falling to pieces and I was being offered a relatively secure job with a steady paycheck at a stable company in a country where the economy was not going down the drain. So I thought hard about whether I ought to take the job or not.
This week I finally gave them my answer. I said no thank you in as polite a way as possible. They accepted and now I'm a free man. That company was very much like a family to me and leaving them was not easy. The photo I posted above was staged spontaneously by a bunch of guys from the Events Dept. as a surprise going-away gift in 2004 when I was just about to leave for LA. That's my family.
It was also a tough decision to make because the most rational, sensible course of action would have been to go to Japan. Try as I might I couldn't make it add up any other way. I'm making a little bit of money off book sales. But if you average out what I get paid for a book compared to how long it takes to write one, my annual wage from writing is not impressive at all. I know there are professional authors whose sales are less than Eckhart Tolle's and Deepak Chopra's but who manage somehow. But I don't know how. Guess I'll find out.
It was a classic example of the Monty Hall Dilemma. Actually I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Monty Hall Dilemma until I did a Google search just now. I was trying to remember the name of the game show hosted by Monty Hall in which contestants were given a choice between say, a year's supply of Turtle Wax and whatever was behind door number three, which could have been something better than the Turtle Wax, like a brand new car, or could have been a bail of hay or a goat or something. Turns out the show was called Let's Make a Deal. I can't believe I wasted several hours of my precious and fleeting life watching Let's Make a Deal. But I suppose it did me some good after all.
ANYWAY, the thing was that even though my rational mind told me the best way to go was to take the job in Japan, my instincts told me otherwise. And it wasn't just my own rational mind that said it was a bad idea to turn down the job in Japan either. Everyone I spoke to about the matter, including two Zen teachers, told me the most sensible course of action was to go to Japan.
But in the end I made the irrational choice. Actually, though, I wouldn't call it irrational. I'd call it intuitive. Intuition isn't really irrational. It has its own sense.
Have I made the right choice? Who knows? Not me. When faced with decisions like these we never really know what the "right choice" is. I'm not even sure the concept of there being a right choice is very sound to begin with.
In Buddhism we always say that when you're faced with a decision, the true way to go appears instantly. But we're so locked into our thinking mind that we can miss it very easily. Still, once you've made your choice the only thing you can do is find a way to make that choice work.
In spite of everything, I feel good about this. It's a bit of a test, though. I always say that the universe takes care of you. I believe that. Now I'll get to see if it's true.
It's kinda doubly weird for me. Because I've seen through things to the degree that I understand clearly that the universe isn't what most people say it is and does not operate in at all the way most people think it does. Yet the power of what most people think is very strong. You should never underestimate it. (This is one of about a million things wrong with the whole "let's get an Enlightenment Experience right this minute" mindset, by the way. But that's a whole 'nother article. Maybe a book.)
Join me on these pages in the following months and together we can all see how it goes…


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A new system called the EmDrive, a way of using electricity to generate thrust without the need for fuel, is one of those ideas that will generate a lot of heat and noise, but probably not a lot of thrust for many years to come. I had never heard of the idea until today, and the latest paper, a translation, doesn't throw a lot of light on the physics itself. So brace yourself and let's see what we can figure out from a grainy line drawing in the translation.
The idea is based on a standing wave cavity: two mirrors—in this case, microwave mirrors—facing each other so that microwaves travel back and forth between them. In one picture, two waves are travelling in opposite directions between two mirrors. If you look at both waves simultaneously, however, you get another picture: a standing wave, like the vibration on a violin string. The key thing about this system is that these two pictures must be self-consistent. We will use that to examine the EmDrive's potential for thrust.
In our simple picture of two mirrors facing each other, the mirrors are subject to equal and opposite forces. Essentially, the photons reflect from each mirror, exerting a force in doing so. Because this is symmetric, the cavity cannot have a net force. Even if we were to make the light very focused at one end and very diffuse at the other, we are simply distributing the same number of photons differently at each end, so the total force remains the same.
The key claim to the EmDrive is that it breaks this symmetry, allowing a net force to exist.
We can consider the EmDrive as having three mirrors. One is large and facing the other two. The other two are arranged at 45 degrees, so light from the big mirror hits these mirrors at 45 degrees. In this arrangement, the force imparted by the photons is divided up. Only half the force generated at the small mirrors is directed opposite to the large mirror, so it doesn't balance the force exerted by the photons hitting the large mirror. As a result, it seems that we should have thrust. In the standing wave picture, then, things look good.
Except that the photons reflected by the small mirrors don't return directly to the main mirror—they need to bounce off the other angled mirror before they can do so. So each photon applies half the force twice, which should balance that from the main mirror. This simple picture is why, on first glance, it appears that this will never generate a net force.
Put in a more general context, my feeling is that any stable optical resonator cannot exert a net force because it requires certain symmetries. But an unstable resonator certainly can. This is important, because the second part of the claim—though it's not made in the article—is that one can start to generate thrust by making the resonator better and better. Essentially, the longer the photon circulates in the cavity, the more net force it imparts.
You can think of it like this: if a resonator allows a photon to circulate a thousand times before it escapes and you attach a one Watt microwave source to the resonator, for each Watt that leaves the resonator, one thousand Watts are stored in it. It would seem that if we increase the quality of the resonator enough, every photon will contribute multiple times to generating the force, and we would be on to a winner.
But there's a problem here, in that some combination of two things must be happening to destabilize the resonator: each time a photon imparts a force to a mirror, the frequency of the light has to drop (the reflected light is ever so slightly red-shifted compared to the incoming light); alternately, the photon is absorbed by a mirror. If the quality of the resonator is high, then as soon as the photon shifts in frequency even a bit, it will get thrown out of the resonator. And if the photons are absorbed by the mirror, the quality is necessarily low. In either case, if the resonator is unstable, the photons don't stay in there for very long.
In the end, there is a limit to how much force this can impart. Each photon carries only so much energy, which can only exert so much force. Since a resonator is an energy storage device, when you use that energy to exert a force, you reduce the storage capability of the resonator. You cannot both exert a lot of force and store a lot of energy. Yet this is exactly what appears to be required.
What about the measurements in the paper? The measurements appear to back the claim up. Unfortunately, the work involves throwing around up to 2.5kW of power to measure less than a Newton of net force. In those conditions, little things like anisotropic thermal expansion become absolutely critical to the measurement. Quite simply, there isn't enough detail in the experimental setup and not enough tests against possible problems to trust the data yet.
There is also a further missing point: the quality of the resonator is measurable, and the mode—think of modes as the path the radiation takes inside the resonator—can be calculated. The measurements in the paper could and should have been compared to a calculation.
My opinion is that this is unlikely to ever work as intended, especially not in a challenging environment like space. I believe that if the microwave resonator is unstable, a net force can be produced, but in a stable cavity no net force can exist. Certainly, the idea that a high quality resonator can impart more force than a low quality resonator cannot be true—at least not if we also want to conserve energy.


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"There has always been this notion of us as a sleeping giant," says Allen Guttierez, national executive director of Irvine, Calif.-based The Latino Coalition, a trade organization for Hispanic small business. "We have always known of our power, but now corporate America is also starting to do much more in the community, really investing and reaching out to us even in an economic downturn."
Hispanics, it's well known, are the fastest growing demographic in the nation, and concurrent with that trend, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses is also on the rise.
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OTTAWA — Sixty-five is the new 55, or so the mantra among aging boomers holds.
And as Canada prepares to wish a happy 65th birthday to its five-millionth senior, lifestyle diseases driven by excess weight and sloth could see people developing age-related ailments faster than generations before them.
Census data released Tuesday counted 4,945,060 people aged 65 and older in Canada in 2011, an increase of more than 14 per cent since the last count in 2006 — a rate of growth more than double the 5.9-per-cent increase for the Canadian population as a whole.
This demographic shift — especially strong in Atlantic Canada and Quebec — is being driven by longer life expectancy, and the fact women aren't having enough babies to replenish the population.
By 2031, 22.8 per cent of the population will be 65 and older. The proportion will jump to one quarter — 25.5 per cent — by 2061.
"The entire Western world is on its way to a demographic tsunami of seniors, and we have to figure out ways to keep these people out of the health system," says Dr. Max Cynader, director of the Brain Research Centre and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at Vancouver Coastal Health and the University of B.C.
In addition, the older the population, the higher the prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, he says.
The risk factors for stroke — age is the leading one — are the same as for heart attack: "Being overweight, smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, eating too much red meat," Cynader says.
"If you've got two or three of them together — if you have high blood pressure, and are overweight, and smoking — you're basically a walking time bomb."
People over 65 aren't all equal; they're a highly diverse bunch, says Dr. Parminder Raina, lead principal investigator for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, a major national study that is looking at why some people stay healthy with age, and others don't.
"But we hear about the obesity epidemic, the poorer nutrition. Perhaps not in the short term, but in the long run — especially for the baby boom population — that's going to be an issue in relation to chronic diseases that are going to happen and that are going to be detected early," says Raina, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton.
Whether that translates into more disability down the road is unknown. The looming question is: how will those lifestyle changes affect the quality of our extra years of life?
According to a recent House of Commons health committee report, the average life expectancy of Canadians has increased by more than 30 years since the early 1900s — to 78 for men, and 83 for women in 2011. But the number of years lived in good health peaked in 1996, and has been on a downward slide since.
The majority of seniors have at least one chronic condition; as many as one in four has two or more.
Diabetes, chronic pain, bone-related diseases and some cancers are on the rise. Currently, half a million seniors suffer from dementia, a number that is expected to rise to more than a million by 2038, the committee heard. Eighty per cent of lung cancers occur in people over 60, while rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by asthma and smoking among 65- to 75-year-olds is triple that of younger Canadians.
Raina, of McMaster, suspects issues related to mental health and stress are going to be an even bigger issue as the population ages.
"As people get older, families move away, social isolation starts to happen — and social isolation is an important determinant of how people age."
Humans experience a "depressingly steady decline" in cognitive performance — everything from reaction time to working memory — beginning in our early 20s.
Yet, "things that you might call wisdom," he says — our vocabulary, the ability to see the big picture, synonyms and antonyms — improve slightly with age, even into our 70s and 80s.
"There are a lot of things that are going south in the brain as you're getting older — your vulnerability to small diseases is increasing, your circulation is tending to be not quite as robust as it used to be, you're losing some neurons, for one reason or another," Cynader, of the Brain Research Centre, says.
The single most important thing people can do to reduce the risk of age-related brain decline is exercise, he says. It used to be thought that humans were born with all the neurons they would ever have.
"It turns out all of us are making new neurons every day — we're probably making in the order of 10,000 new neurons every week, and we're making them in parts of the brain that are crucial for learning and memory," Cynader says.
"You can double or triple the number of new neurons that you produce next week by doing physical exercise."
Normally the hippocampus, which is important in learning and memory, shrinks with age, increasing dementia risk. A recent study involving 120 older adults without dementia found that moderate-intensity exercise — a 40-minute walk, three times a week — increases the size of the hippocampus and improves memory after one year.
Sleep is also vital for the aging brain, he says. "There is evidence that if you disrupt sleep . . . your memory capabilities degrade."
Most people should also be eating less. "There are documented studies that you basically age more slowly if you eat less," Cynader says.
In addition, having a stimulating lifestyle — "exposing yourself to new ideas, exposing yourself to social contacts, basically being emotionally, socially, cognitively connected — is good for you," he added.
It goes beyond promoting healthy aging, Cynader says.
"We should be trying to maximize the human capital that we've got — because a lot of these people have a lot to offer still."


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Not all charitable organizations are alike. In 2013, some nonprofits can look forward to robust donations, while many others will continue to worry about where the next dollar will come from, according to Melissa Berman, president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
In the coming year, impact investing will gain increasing traction among philanthropists, and a global culture of giving will continue to emerge, Berman said in a recent telephone interview with AdvisorOne.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is an independent nonprofit consulting firm that spun out of the Rockefeller Family Office about 10 years ago. The firm advises ultra-wealthy individual, family, corporate and institutional donors on philanthropy; it includes some 50 members of the Rockefeller family among its clients, Berman said.
The Year Ahead
As the fiscal cliff negotiations drag on (as of Dec. 25, hope for a resolution was dim if not extinguished), the entire outlook for the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors is clouded by uncertainty about what will happen with the individual charitable deduction, Berman said. However, many ultra-high-net-worth donors have decided to lock in a charitable deduction at the current level.
"They are putting more funds than they usually do into either a private foundation or a donor-advised fund," she said. "I don't think that trend is going to be large enough to have a significant influence on charitable giving across the whole U.S."
Into 2013, the economic environment will be the key factor for most charitable giving. As studies have noted, U.S. donors generally give away around $300 billion per year. Most of those are small donations from individuals, and modest donations to local institutions, "which is part of what keeps the wheels turning here in the U.S.," Berman said.
For most of those donors, their attitudes about whether they feel secure in their jobs and whether they feel prices are rising quickly or not determine how generous they can be.
"Only the top 20% of the donors have the luxury of taking a longer view," Berman said. Those donors drive a very disproportionate amount of giving, and already they are beginning to feel that the worst parts of the recession are behind them."
As a result, "that part of the philanthropic giving is going to be strong in 2013," she said.
The major education, health care and cultural institutions, which receive significant donations from wealthy donors, are in a good position, and indeed an improving one. "We survey our donors every year, and by March 2012, close to half of our donors were already planning to increase their giving. This is probably a combination of putting more money into a philanthropic vehicle and donating more money directly into public charities."
Not so fortunate are small local organizations that rely on lower-income donors. "Some of them, especially in areas like the New York area that was so hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, are already feeling that some of their donors gave more in 2012 to help out with Sandy and essentially borrowed from their budget allocation in 2013."
For small nonprofits in the U.S., then, 2013 is still a very uncertain environment. "We're nowhere near back to the kind of comfort level individuals across the country had before the economic downturn began to be felt in 2008–9."
Impact Investing Evolves
The impact investing field of philanthropic activity has been developing rapidly, and promises to gain more adherents in 2013, according to Berman. For Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, impact investing is any investment that is made with an eye toward a social and environmental return as well as a market return.
That market return could be a high-risk, potentially above-market return, or an investment opportunity that is at market. Or it could be one that offers a below-market rate of return in which the donor decides to invest because of its social and environmental return, such as funds for loans to businesses in low-income communities.
"You're making set of choices, almost like on a 2×2 matrix, of how much financial return do I want and also how do I want to think about social and environmental return," she said.
At present, impact investing opportunities can be found in different asset classes, from short-term fixed income all the way to private equity, and across all the major issues areas: health, education, environment and basic social services.
"Many donors look at this and say, maybe I have an opportunity here to think about if I have a foundation, how do I use the underlying assets in the foundation to advance my mission as well as using that 5% stream that I typically use to make grants."
Moreover, Berman said, people are becoming more sophisticated about impact investing. In particular, they are using these tools for global development. They are looking at opportunities in which some of the capital is philanthropic, some is investing and some may be coming from the public sector.
Donor collaboratives will also get more focus in the year ahead; already these are enjoying success. Although people have long seen the advantages of pooling ideas and resources toward a common goal, the philanthropic sector does not offer many incentives to do this, Berman said.
"But as more and more people start to think about the idea of solving a problem rather than being a generous funder of good organizations, they begin to realize that the numbers are not on their side and that it might be better to find partners."
She said donors are coming to understand that if a nonprofit group could submit one proposal with one common set of performance standards and outcomes indicators to 20 organizations, not only would it save a lot of time, but the funders would begin to have ways they could start to compare the grant making and their impacts.
"Suddenly, we're getting a kind of marriage of the drive to take a systematic approach to solving a problem with a drive to be able to have clear and consistent outcomes. You can't have the latter if every single funder and every single nonprofit are inventing their own set."
Not Just in America
"We're beginning to be very involved with philanthropy outside the U.S.," Berman said. Indeed, she and her colleagues have become globetrotters, making presentations in Mexico, Europe and several places in Asia, including China and Korea.
"We're beginning to see something of an emergence of a global culture of giving, which is more of a shared point of view among wealth holders around the world rather than just having this deep involvement in philanthropy being a U.S. phenomenon."
She said the highest echelons of global wealth holders partake of a global community, meeting with one another at Davos and doing business with one another. "They all know about the Clinton Global Initiative.
"They are beginning to cross fertilize with one another about the idea that a family with significant wealth should be deeply involved in philanthropy; more than merely generous, it should be involved and knowledgeable on the issues. There's the sense that as income equality begins to rise, people with wealth should be part of addressing how to make the system work better for more people," she said.


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Christian McCracken, 33, did receive a suspended three-year prison sentence from Chief District Judge Roxanne Bailin that he will serve only if he fails to comply with the terms of his probation, which include an order not to return to the state of Colorado without permission from his probation officer.
"My everyday life is consumed by intrusive thoughts and fears, and I feel like I cannot stress how dangerous I think he still is," McCracken's ex-girlfriend said in court. "In five years, I will still be looking over my shoulder, still waiting for him to finish his murderous plan."
McCracken pleaded guilty to one count of stalking — a Class 5 felony — in February in exchange for prosecutors dropping one charge of first-degree attempted murder, felony menacing and two other counts of stalking.
While the stalking charge could have carried a prison sentence of one to three years, prosecutor Ryan Brackley asked for the jail sentence and probation because the victims felt the sentence would keep them safer for a longer period of time, with the suspended prison sentence serving as incentive.
"(McCracken's ex-girlfriend) is angry about what the defendant did to her and what he did to her life, but that anger never turned into a need for revenge — it was always just centered in fear, and the fear that the defendant's actions put her in and their extended family," Brackley said. "They just want to feel safe, and just want the court to impose a sentence that will make them feel safe."
Injured in the line of duty
According to prosecutors, McCracken stalked his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend — both Boulder police dispatchers — and, at one point made, a plan to kill the boyfriend.
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"Mr. McCracken was injured in the line of duty and without that having happened, the people that know him don't believe he would be here today," Moorhead said.
But prosecutors said there was evidence that McCracken's behavior was disturbing before the head injury and that he had expressed little remorse in the case. An ex-wife and some ex-girlfriends said he made threats and disturbing statements to them, according to prosecutors.
"These are things that occurred well before the defendant's head injury," Brackley said.
Brackley added that, at one point, McCracken asked the victim's sister out on a date and contacted other members of the victims' families. He also made Facebook posts around the time of his plea deal, writing, "I may look calm in my head but I've killed you three times lmao!!!" and, "Patience is what you have to have when there are too many witnesses."
'I ask for their forgiveness'
In making a statement to Bailin, McCracken — who resigned from the Boulder Police Department last year — apologized to the victims and the department.
"I cannot imagine what (the victims) have been through because of what I said I was going to do," McCracken said. "I caused a great deal of embarrassment to the Boulder Police Department and caused the community to lose trust in its officers.
"I hope over time (the victims) can learn to feel safe again and I ask for their forgiveness and the community's forgiveness."
In handing down the sentence, Bailin said she thinks McCracken's head injury could not be used as an excuse for his "outrageous and dangerous" behavior.
"I understand there are at least two camps here, those who say you did this only because of the traumatic brain injury, and those who say you did it because it is a manifestation of your true colors," she said. "I think you are a dangerous person, and I would say that you had these traits before the traumatic brain injury."
Bailin added that while Smyly testified at the hearing that McCracken ultimately chose not to go through with the plan, the officer's actions saved lives.
"I think I would be presiding over a murder trial or a murder sentencing or not over anything because you would have killed yourself, too," she said. "Everyone owes (Smyly) because I think he stopped you from doing something you were planning on doing."
McCracken was immediately remanded into custody and transported to the Boulder County Jail.
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The Treasury Department on Tuesday sold its remaining 16% of American International Group common shares for $7.6 billion, putting an end to the government's 50-month shotgun financial tryst with the global insurer.
Industry officials, financial analysts and Washington insiders speculate that Treasury's sale of its remaining 234 million common shares of AIG through an initial public offering will set the stage on Thursday for designation of AIG as the first systemically significant non-bank. That is expected to take place at a closed meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
Washington Analysis, a buy-side analyst group, said in a weekly bulletin to subscribers Monday that the FSOC will likely have on its agenda whether to designate AIG, Prudential Financial and General Electric as systemic significant non-banks.
However, other Washington officials say they expect only AIG to be designated a SIFI at this meeting, with decisions on other non-banks debated one-by-one into next year.
If AIG is so designated, it would be historic, marking the first time that an insurance company would be federally regulated.
Washington Analysis researchers say, however, that the exact details of what non-bank SIFI status will mean will not become clear until the Fed issues additional rules during 2013's first quarter.
Such designations were created through provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial services reform act of 2010. Under the law, the Federal Reserve Bank would be the consolidated regulator of AIG, but the states would still oversee its insurance-operating subsidiaries.
The 234.2 million shares of AIG were priced Monday night at $32.50, according to AIG. When the deal closes Friday, Treasury will have sold the last of its remaining shares of AIG common stock, receiving proceeds of approximately $7.6 billion from the sale, AIG said. The overall bailout netted taxpayers a profit of about $22.7 billion.
The closing of this transaction will mark the full resolution of America's financial support of AIG. After the closing of today's offering, Treasury will continue to hold warrants to purchase approximately 2.7 million shares of AIG common stock – the sale of which is expected to provide an additional positive return to taxpayers.
Since September 2008, America committed a total of $182.3 billion in connection with stabilizing AIG during the financial crisis. Since then, through asset sales and other actions by AIG, America has not only recovered all $182.3 billion but also earned a combined positive return of $22.7 billion.
"We are very pleased to repay 100% of all that America invested in AIG plus a total combined positive return – or profit – of $22.7 billion," said AIG President and Chief Executive Officer Robert H. Benmosche. "On behalf of the 62,000 employees of AIG, it is my honor and privilege to thank America for giving us the opportunity to keep our promise to make America whole on its investment in AIG plus a substantial profit. Thank you America. Let's bring on tomorrow."
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC have been retained as joint book runners for the offering, Treasury says.
The Treasury, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York became involved with AIG in September 2008 when a unit of AIG's holding company, AIG Financial Products, had issued credit default swaps on what was later learned to be $2.77 trillion of securities and synthetic securities backed by mortgages of varying quality.
As the value of the underlying securities declined, and AIG's credit rating was lowered by rating agencies, the terms of the CDS required AIG to put up collateral. AIG became unable to raise the cash to meet such margin calls.
After several banks declined to provide a private-sector solution, the NY Fed provided an initial $85 billion in cash in exchange for 79.9% of AIG's stock.
The NY Fed, in tandem with the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury departments of the Bush and later Obama administrations, ultimately invested more than $100 billion in additional funds.
The sale, if completed, would end several controversial and tense chapters in the life of Timothy Geithner, who is expected to leave his role as Treasury secretary early next year.
Geithner was president of the NY Fed when the Federal Reserve Board was told by Henry Paulson, then secretary of the Treasury in the Bush administration, to rescue AIG.
Besides dealing with the huge liability from the CDS, later investigations by the Government Accountability Office and the Pennsylvania Insurance Department found that AIG's insurance subsidiaries, both life and property and casualty, had cross-guaranteed the liabilities of AIGFP.
Among the issues that surfaced during the government's rescue was the fact that AIG officials who had led the company astray, including those in London who had devised the CDS investment, were owed more than $100 million in bonuses.
The political solution that resulted was a reduction in the amount of bonuses paid as well as a system overseen by attorney Ken Feinberg that limited the bonuses companies receiving federal aid could pay their employees.
Indeed, Benmosche said one of the reasons he wants the federal government to divest itself of a financial interest in AIG is to be rid of the limits on executive compensation imposed on those who received bailouts in the 2008-2010 period.