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GM posts first-quarter profit
Reuters ^ | May 17, 2010 | Kevin Krolicki and David Bailey

Posted on 05/17/2010 6:34:36 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: allmost

I think it’s been pulled. Someone complained to the FTC...............


21 posted on 05/17/2010 6:52:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
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To: C19fan

Is anyone picking up large amounts of GM stock?if so who?.


22 posted on 05/17/2010 6:54:25 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“When GM repays its former bond holders and stock holders, they can show a real profit.”

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I’m not sure why there wasn’t more outrage when this occured. Yeah I know bankruptcies occur evry day, but this seemed to be in many ways, something much bigger, quicker, and in Obama punk style, much more in-your-face.

Poetic justice: Many of those holding GM bonds were dyed-in-the-wool leftist institutions.


23 posted on 05/17/2010 6:55:01 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: C19fan

smoke and mirrors


24 posted on 05/17/2010 6:55:55 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Red Badger
Positive news. :)
Wish similar standards were set for the 'people's' reps.
25 posted on 05/17/2010 6:56:36 AM PDT by allmost
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To: C19fan

All those gummint cars.


26 posted on 05/17/2010 6:58:13 AM PDT by Carley (WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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To: Vaduz
GM stock isn’t publicly traded.
27 posted on 05/17/2010 7:02:44 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: EyeGuy

GM bonds were also held by private individuals. The guy who built our house had most of his savings in GM bonds. He told me he’ll have to work until he’s 80 to catch up.


28 posted on 05/17/2010 7:03:34 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: RangerM
False Profit.

LOL! Nice one.

Yeah, wipe out all of my credit card debt, mortgage, car loans, and utility bills, and I will be in the black as well.

29 posted on 05/17/2010 7:06:29 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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When will they repay the owners of the stock that
was stolen by Union and Government thugs?
30 posted on 05/17/2010 7:07:02 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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31 posted on 05/17/2010 7:11:30 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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I do not mean to be cynical but....

865 mill/31.48 billion = s a profit margin of 2.7% unless my math or analysis are wrong.

These margins are no better than 2003-ish when they had earnings of 300 billion and took home 6 billion then after paying all the halth benefits they netted 2 billion....

And the liabilities of the UAW and the Obamaton's will be built into the stock, i.e. the VEBA and the Retirement Liabilities...

Tell me how this is going to work as an IPO...

Prove me wrong here...

32 posted on 05/17/2010 7:11:47 AM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“GM bonds were also held by private individuals.”

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Right.

Like I said, I'm surprised, no shocked, that there wasn't more outrage, particularly when Zero shat upon the bondholders, while the Unions and their insane compensation and benefits, kept perking right along.

Gee at least they could have rounded up a few(always exploitative and oppressive) white middle-aged men to drag before the ignorant Congressional baboons for show-trial style interrogation.

33 posted on 05/17/2010 7:12:32 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: EyeGuy
This announcement and those ridiculous GM TV ads touting their “early loan payback,” really make me angry.
34 posted on 05/17/2010 7:16:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Mr. Lucky

When can it be publicly traded?.


35 posted on 05/17/2010 7:17:11 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I would agree they are a rouge company.

legally, can't repay those people

Which shouldn't be the case; ie the situation never should have happened. Instead of assets going to the bond holders, it went to the UAW. So GM is now controlled by three socialist entities.....the US gov't, the Canadian gov't, and the UAW.

Then, to top it off, they used taxpayer money to payoff a taxpayer funded loan so they could get another taxpayer funded loan with a better interest rate. To top it off, they blasted out this commercial telling the world they paid off their debt with interest. BS!

Talk about someone pissing on your leg and telling you its raining.

I currently own 4 bow tie vehicles that I inted to run till they die...(I won't even trade them in now to help 0's socialist regime)......never again will I buy another (so long as they are gov't/UAW owned).

Maybe, maybe, I'll THINK about it if they were to scrap the entire upper management, scrap the UAW (as in become a non-union company owned/labor), and ACTUALLY payoff their taxpayer loans.

FUUAW, FUBO, and FUGM.

36 posted on 05/17/2010 7:18:23 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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When the company issues a new class of stock or one of the current shareholders sells theirs in a public offering. As long as the government and the unions own all the stock, they can report whatever financial results their imaginations allow them to conjure up; if stock is sold to the public, they have to play by the rules.


37 posted on 05/17/2010 7:23:33 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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> Tell me how this is going to work as an IPO...

Only if the Fed buys the stock in the same way it has been monetizing
the national debt by BUYING Bonds as third-party Bond purchasers


38 posted on 05/17/2010 7:23:42 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Sure sounds a lot like the Mafia operate but we know the Mafis is dead because the government told us so /s, thanks for the info hope GM gets back on it’s feet hate to see any American company fail.


39 posted on 05/18/2010 10:01:04 AM PDT by Vaduz
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