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November 18, 2008

Following-up: AIG Schwag

In October we did a number of posts covering AIG promos. After their initial bailout of $85 billion, AIG have received another $65 billion or so in additional government loans and aid. So, it seems appropriate for our blog to feature a number of additional promos that weren't featured as part of our original bailout coverage. We start with this AIG-sponsored Mets baseball bobblehead.http://www.epromos.com/category/1561.htmlAIG-bobblehead.jpg
This AIG-branded promotional calculator should come in handy when trying to calculate the liability of insuring CDOs full of toxic assets. If only someone had started using this calculator about five years ago...AIG-calculator.jpg

Here's an AIG promotional baseball cap. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this may actually be unsafe to wear.

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This AIG promotional wall clock features the tagline "The strength to be there" which was since been replaced by their new "Too big to fail" tagline. This clock also has no numbers printed on the face, although I'm not exactly sure what conclusions to draw from that. Perhaps they had no idea they were running out of time?

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This Manchester United AIG jersey keychain can be filed under "Good Old Days." AIG-jersey-keychain.jpg

This promotional letter opener is perfect for opening the envelopes that contain juicy bailout checks from Hank Paulson.

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This AIG promotional ooze tube is my favorite, though. It's an actual promotional product metaphor for the toxic debt that has caused the global financial meltdown - a bunch of toxic goop that gets passed back and forth. Mmmmm.AIG-ooze-tube.jpg

Posted by mark at November 18, 2008 12:25 PM

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