TreasuryDepartment

During the past month, AIG stock fell nearly 10% drop after an announcement that the government would sell some of its stake in the insurance giant. The Treasury's ownership in the company has declined from 92% to 77%, but the prospect of its future sell-offs are holding the stock down.

This year it's with no small sense of embarrassment that I had to unload a commercial property as a "short sale." I hasten to underscore that I'm by no means a big-time real estate investor, despite how the first line reads. To make a long story short, for 10 years, I had been renting studio space...