By Tyler Durden

The latest observation on our depressing economic reality, behind the glitzy headlines and the 3D TV screens, comes from Bloomberg’s Jonathan Weil who rightfully asks “if AIG executives repeatedly claimed the stock was worthless, how do the executives, auditors, regulators, and, ultimately, the government, still have the balls to indicate the company’s stock has any intrinsic value, both its publicly traded version and its book equity.” Weil also joins the long list of people who wonder, just what the hell is the SEC’s function in this day and age, when publicly-traded companies, many of them government backstopped, can disclose anything and everything they desire, even when such disclosure is flawed and purposefully misleading (see Bank of America and the earlier piece on a lying Tim Geithner and the very same AIG) with absolutely no repercussions. It is all really getting just far too depressing for US taxpayers to even be indignant. Maybe that has been the point all along…

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