
Bad Outweighs the Good in AIG

By Jim Cramer
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If you think the disclosure is bad for these financial insurers here, it is every bit as poor over there in the U.K., where we just learned that housing prices dropped the most ever on record.
Most of the major monoline insurers, and of course AIG , have exposure to Britain in ways that we are all too familiar with over here. The only difference is that I believe the trajectory was considered far more certain over there than here. AIG in particular bragged about this business in December, to show their diversification away from the U.S. Kind of like how Bear bragged that by putting a lot of different mortgages together from Florida and California and the rest of the country and varying their ratings you have created a wondrous, diversified instrument called a CDO.
Yesterday, Erin Burnett, my partner in "Stop Trading" on CNBC, asked...

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