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General Motors' recent 10-Q financial report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, details the company's slide toward insolvency, indicating GM had only $16.9 billion in ready cash reserves in place as of Sept. 30. Buried in the same voluminous report is a note indicating that GM has tucked away another $13.5 billion, in trust, to pay for health care for current and future blue-collar retirees covered by labor contracts with the United Auto Workers...
...rage among pundits, journalists and policymakers these days is to believe that more government is better than less. And why not? In this time of economic chaos, finance ministers and central bankers around the world have appeared the only bulwark against complete financial collapse - a slide-rule cavalry, armed with billions as bullets, rescuing banks, insurance companies and other corporate damsels in distress...
...would sort of run three steps up and slide two steps back down,” said Sprague, a former varsity track runner at Harvard. “It was progress, but very, very slow progress...
During the question-and-answer session following Leibovitz’s slide presentation of her book, Thomas Burns, a freshman at Northeastern University, asked Leibovitz how she felt about the recent controversy regarding her Vanity Fair shoot in which then-15-year-old pop star Miley Cyrus appeared partially nude...
Speaking at an unusually crowded meeting of the full Faculty, Smith used a slide with a picture of three buckets to illustrate departments’ need to prioritize their budgetary desires. Two small buckets represented programs that would suffer little, or even not at all, from the financial situation. The largest bucket by far—comically magnified in the foreground of the screen—represented those areas that would need significant cuts...