What’s Wrong with GM and What is the Government Going to do to Fix It?

Nicolas Loris /

In three words: Everything and nothing. Megan McCardle has more:

GM’s main problem is not that the market is unreasonably unwilling to finance a potentially profitable company. Nor that it can’t produce an awesome small car that shockingly few people want to buy. (Believe me, as the owner of a tiny, ultra-efficient car, I would that there were higher demand for my rapidly depreciating asset). GM’s main problems are

1) A terrible, bloated cost structure
2) A terrible, bloated bureaucracy
3) A bunch of meh car lines

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