Question of the day - GM or Not GM
varifrank.com 11/9/2008 — Question of the day - "So why can't GM be allowed to go into bankruptcy?" Seems to me that United Airlines and half a dozen other companies I can name have gone into bankruptcy without also going out of buisness. GM goes into bankruptcy it gets ...

Save Taxpayers, Not GM
redstate.com 12/1/2008 — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a member of the Republican Study Committee, has had enough of Congressional bailouts. Right now there is $350 billion left of he $700 billion Congressional bailout funds. He has an alternative to more bailouts: a two ...

Whither GM?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 4/1/2009 — The more I read about these plans, the more I wonder what the end game is supposed to be.  The administration is acting serious:  firing Wagoner, and threatening to cut off funds if Chrysler doesn't make a deal with Fiat.  Then you read ...

GM goes nuclear
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 12/4/2008 — So GM wants $18 billion just for itself.  Words fail.  Or rather, I don't think I can print the words that immediately come to mind. This is a family blog.  Somewhat to my surprise, the political types tell me this polls very badly ...

A Toyota Takeover Could Save GM
truthdig.com 12/8/2008 — Michael D. Intrilligator Considering only two options for an imperiled General Motors —either bailout by the U.S. government or bankruptcy—omits an important alternative, which I see as the best option: a takeover of GM by Toyota Motor ...

Bankruptcy for GM
corner.nationalreview.com 11/13/2008 — What would it mean to have GM go bankrupt? A change in ownership and a renegotiation of contracts. The factories, computers, office space, intellectual property and so forth that are now owned by GM would not disappear; they would basically become ...

Don't Do It, Obama. Don't Save Ford (F) And General Motors (GM)
clusterstock.com 11/11/2008 — ObamaPresident.png President Elect Obama, you're about to get your first big economic test: Cave to the anguished cries of the crippled US car industry and waste tens of billions of taxpayer dollars postponing the inevitable. OR Just let the crippled ...

Report: GM Turned down by Government
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 11/3/2008 — From the NY Times: U.S. Rejects G.M.’s Call for Help in a Merger The Treasury Department has turned down a request by General Motors for up to $10 billion to help finance the automaker’s possible merger with Chrysler ... the Bush administration will ...

U.S. Sees a Smaller G.M. in the Future Than G.M. Does
nytimes.com 3/31/2009 — DETROIT — General Motors has 60 days to fix a set of problems that have been decades in the making. For all of G.M. ’s deep cuts in recent years — closing plants and shedding tens of thousands of jobs because of steep losses and declining market share ...

GM’s Magical Thinking
theamericanscene.com 12/4/2008 — I’ve been working my way through GM’s much-heralded restructuring plan that is being submitted to Congress tomorrow. It’s a lot less work than I thought it might be (though I’m blogging late at night as I’m reading it, so all of my comments are ...