Legal Commentary

As Goes GM, So Goes The Nation?

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Atrios, we will own GM:

The U.S. Treasury would own at least a 50 percent stake in General Motors under a plan the company released today to avoid bankruptcy. The strategy would essentially formalize the government's control over one of the icons of corporate America. . . . Under the outlines announced yesterday, the federal government would take an equity stake of at least 50 percent, the United Auto Workers would take as much as 39 percent, the company's bondholders would get 10 percent and the existing shareholders 1 percent.

Think of it as a massive jobs program. Now, how about Citi?

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).