Updated Feb. 27, 2015 5:26 p.m. Robert Benmosche, who brought insurance giant American International Group Inc. back from the brink of bankruptcy and led it to repay its historic bailout, died Friday at age 70 after a five-year battle with lung cancer, the company said. Known as one of the more colorful and outspoken executives on Wall Street, Mr. Benmosche came out of retirement in August 2009 to become AIGâs chief executive.
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Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.xtreme skepticism, then, is linked to epistemological nihilism which denies the possibility of knowledge and truth; this form of nihilism is currently identified with postmodern antifoundationalism. Nihilism, in fact, can be understood in several different ways.