Why is AIG stock still selling for a price greater than zero? Felix Salmon:
I understand that there’s some tiny possibility that AIG will be able to pay the government back in full, and that therefore AIG stock has a small amount of option value.
Well, OK. But basically, it’s worthless. And yet, AIG executives, who once fought the idea like rabid dogs, now want to be paid their bonuses in common stock. What do they know that the rest of us don’t? Felix and Paul Smalera are perplexed. So am I.