Sunday, August 19, 2012

GM Headed For Bankruptcy Again -- Forbes

Link here.
Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company.  It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday.  This left the government holding $10.1 billion worth of stock, and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion.

GM is unlikely to hit the wall before the election, but, given current trends, the company could easily do so again before the end of a second Obama term.
Yup.

Read the article. It's even worse than these two short quips would suggest.

GM is the government's version of a union too big to fail.

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