Commentary

In my Sept. 3 blog entry, I ran a column by my fellow editor at NU's life and health weekly, Steve Piontek, hammering insurance regulators ...

It's too bad that Sandy Praeger, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, had to bow out of NU's taping of "The Great Debate" ...

Get out the cynanide capsules.According to Forbes economic guru A. Gary Shilling (http://www.forbes.com/shilling), the current economy -- which many expertsare calling the worst since the ...

Are Hank Greenberg and I the only ones chagrined about Uncle Sam actually owning AIG as part of its bailout package to keep the country's ...

If the "official" (read: "press release") reaction from insurance industry trade groups about the Fed's $85 billion-dollar bailout of AIG is any indication, the controversial ...

So, AIG got its bailout from Uncle Sam. What happens now? Assets will be sold to repay the federal loan, but can enough cash be ...