With talk of trillions of dollars being casually thrown around when discussing our various economic debacles, the fact that AIG lost $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008 doesn't sound so awful–that is, until you put that record-breaking number into a context that average people can understand!
The Associated Press ran a series of real world comparisons this week to help us get our heads around the incredible depth of red ink AIG was swimming in during the last three months of 2008!
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