Is General Motors worth saving?
Was it worth it for the federal government to spend billions to prevent GM's liquidation only to steer it to Bankruptcy Court? Is GM truly too big to fail? Daniel J. Ikenson and Howard Wial debate GM's bankruptcy filing and federal efforts to keep U.S. automakers afloat.
1:19 PM PDT, June 5, 2009
Dust-Up
Will Government Motors do better than General Motors?
Today's topic: How can the federal government simultaneously regulate GM, protect the taxpayers' interests as the company's dominant shareholders and help the carmaker turn out products that people want to buy?
June 4, 2009
Dust-Up
Is GM really too big to fail?
Today's topic: Given how far the demand for cars has fallen this year, would the failure of General Motors have put more stress on the industry, or just accelerated the "right sizing" that was already underway? In other words, was the company really too big to fail?
12:50 PM PDT, June 3, 2009
Dust-Up
What was the point of bailing out GM?
Today's topic: Should the U.S. government have spent billions to keep General Motors from liquidation only to eventually steer it to Bankruptcy Court?
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