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Taxpayers Lost $6 Billion On The GM IPO
Friday, November 19th, 2010Image via Wikipedia From the meda’s unrelenting celebration of the GM IPO yesterday, you’d think that the stock offering was a great victory for the federal government and American taxpayers. Think again. With the IPO, taxpayers lost $6 billion yesterday. Let’s run the numbers. Under the original deal, the federal government “invested” $45.3 billion for [...]
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