The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 9, 2008 Fed to Lend $38 Billion More to AIG ----------------------------------- Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has announced it is lending the failing insurance giant AIG an additional $38 billion on top of the $85 billion the government already pledged as part of a federal bailout. .