¿ AIG managed to lose $62 billion in just 92 days. That's nearly $470,000 a minute.

¿ It would take a person spending $1 million per day, every day, the next 169 years to spend as much money as AIG lost during the fourth quarter.

¿ AIG's loss is more than Bill Gates' net worth of $57 billion as of last September, according to Forbes magazine's "400 Richest Americans" list that had Microsoft Corp. founder Gates as No. 1.

¿ The US government provided $62 billion for immediate relief and rescue efforts in the months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

¿ If $62 billion was spread across the US population, Americans could each get about $200.

¿ AIG's loss amounts to 92 percent of the $67.4 billion that Americans spent at world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the fourth quarter, which includes the holiday season.