Fed Sells More Maiden Lane II Assets

The Federal Reserve has just announced that it sold more assets from its Maiden Lane II portfolio with a face value of $1.9 billion. Maiden Lane II was implemented as part of the AIG (NYSE:
AIG
) bailout, in which the U.S. government gave AIG some $180 billion to prevent it from filing bankruptcy. Here is the
link
for the asset sales.
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