Power Point: It's never too late to start over

• Power Point: Trust is not enough

  "We are hearing, 'Trust us,' but we are not willing to let $180 billion go just on trust. We will question; we will inquire; we will verify."

  -Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in a hearing with AIG (AIG) on Wednesday. The embattled insurance giant, which recieved a $180 billion-dollar bailout, claimed it had made "substantial" progress, but Congress wanted more proof. CEO Ed Liddy failed to MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - May 13, 2009 6:21 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, bailout, CEOs, Congress, Ed Liddy, politics, Postcards, Power Point, Washington

• Power Point: Save the ship from going down

  "I'm trying to save capitalism, while some people are trying to save a paycheck."

  -- Connecticut Sentor Chris Dodd in a Fortune story by David Whitford, in next week's issue. The Democratic senator, who has served on the Senate Banking Committee since 1980 and is now its chairman, has long positioned himself as the champion of the consumer.

  Dodd's position has placed him firmly at the center of every piece of legislation MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Mar 27, 2009 7:56 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, Chris Dodd, David Whitford, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, politics, Postcards, Power Point, Washington

• Power Point: Stand up for your employees

  "None of us should be cheated of our payments any more than a plumber should be cheated after he has fixed the pipes but a careless electrician causes a fire that burns down the house."

  -- Jake DeSantis, an EVP in AIG's (AIG) financial products unit, in a resignation letter yesterday to AIG chief Ed Liddy. The letter, published in Wednesday's New York Times, is riveting. DeSantis tells Liddy that he'll MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Mar 25, 2009 6:31 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, CEOs, Ed Liddy, finance, Postcards, Power Point

• Power Point: Give the money back!

  "It was distasteful to make these payments."

  AIG (AIG) chief Ed Liddy, testifying today before a House Financial Services subcommittee. He was, of course, talking about the infamous $165 million in retention bonuses that the bailed-out conglomerate paid out to employees. Liddy—who took charge in September and is working for $1 a year and no bonus—told Congress that employees who took home more than $100,000 in bonuses have been asked to MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 18, 2009 6:29 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, banks, Carol Loomis, CEOs, Ed Liddy, finance, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Postcards, Power Point, Wall Street

• Powerful women bet their careers

  I'm on vacation this week -- or I'm supposed to be! The blog world never sleeps, I guess, nor does learning while away. So I'll share with you a few things I'm learning here in Allentown, Pa.

  Aside from plowing snow, I've been plowing through the invite list for next year's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. This, as you may know, is the annual powwow that accompanies the release of what MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Dec 23, 2008 2:16 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, banks, BJ's Wholesale, Cece Sutton, CEOs, consumer goods, ecoimagination, Ellen Gordon, Fidelity, finance, Fortune 500, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, GE, ING, Karen Mills, Kathleen Murphy, Kathy Murphy, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Lorraine Bolsinger, management, Morgan Stanley, Paula Reynolds, Postcards, Power Shift, retail, SAFECO, SBA, Small Business Administration, Solera Capital, stock market, Tootsie Roll, Wall Street, Washington

• Power Point: Strive for freedom to fail

  "Only if we have the freedom to fail will we have the freedom to succeed."

  - U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson at the Fortune 500 Forum this afternoon. As Paulson opened Fortune's confab in Washington D.C. today, he noted that the global financial system must be fixed so that any failure of a single component in the system--such as, we might presume, AIG (AIG) or Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ)--doesn't threaten to bring down the MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Dec 1, 2008 6:15 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, Hank Paulson, Henry Paulson, Lehman Brothers, Postcards, Power Point, Treasury Secretary, Wall Street, Washington

• Where will the bailouts end?

  As the government commits more and more money to its multitudinous rescue efforts--of Bear Stearns, then AIG (AIG), then Citigroup (C) and its bank rivals, then Citigroup again, and now more money for Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE)--we wonder: Where, oh where, will these bailouts end? In Detroit, with General Motors (GM), Ford (F)and Chrysler securing their desperately needed billions? Alas, the road to shore up capitalism will MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Nov 26, 2008 2:01 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, auto industry, bailout, banks, Bear Stearns, Byron Wein, Chrysler, Citigroup, fannie mae, Ford, freddie mac, General Motors, GM, investing, management, Morgan Sanley, Pequot, Postcards, stock market, technology, telecom, unemployment, Wall Street, Washington

• Power Point: Embrace the imperfect capital market

  "I think we've got fabulous capital markets in this country, and they get screwed up often enough to make them even more fabulous. I mean, you don't want a capital market that functions perfectly if you're in my business. "

  --Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BERK) and billionaire investor, to Fortune's Nicholas Varchaver in his cover story, "What Warren Thinks..." On Tuesday Goldman Sachs (GS) announced that it will receive MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 24, 2008 7:22 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, Barclays, Bear Stearns, berkshire hathaway, CEOs, fannie mae, freddie mac, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, JPMorgan Chase, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Lehman Brothers, market, Postcards, Power Point, Wall Street, Warren Buffett

• Power Point: Make history now

  "Rather than trying to revise history afterward, I'm going to make it and get something done. It may not be perfect."

  -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, from Marc Guther's cover story, Paulson to the Rescue, in the current issue of Fortune. Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS), helped broker a deal for JPMorgan Chase (JPM) to acquire Bear Stearns in March and orchestrated the bailout of Freddie Mac MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 17, 2008 6:29 PM ET
  Posted in: AIG, banks, Bear Stearns, CEOs, Hank Paulson, JPM, JPMorgan Chase, LEH, Lehman Brothers, Postcards, Power Point, Power Shift, Treasury Secretary, Wall Street