1.0 link 177205 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/who-is-ed-liddy-and-what_b_177205.html Mainstream media have portrayed Ed Liddy, currently the $1-a-year head of embattled AIG, as a good guy who gamely took on a bad job, unwinding the trillions in bad deals that the Financial Products guys devised. Thursday's New Orleans Times-Picayune paints a slightly different picture. According to that story, Liddy ran Allstate Insurance during the first decade of its spinoff from Sears, a period during which the company perfected techniques for getting tougher with customers filing claims. And, there's...

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