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    General Motors on a Collision Course with Bankruptcy

    General Motors is closer than ever to bankruptcy. It needed 90% of its investors to exchange debt for shares in the company in order to qualify for fed money. GM announced today that it had failed to meet that threshold. David Welch is Detroit Bureau Chief for BusinessWeek magazine.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    General Motors is closer than ever to bankruptcy. It needed 90% of its investors to exchange debt for shares in the company in order to qualify for fed money. GM announced today that it had failed to meet that threshold. David Welch is Detroit Bureau Chief for BusinessWeek magazine.

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    1 of 3
    The Economics and Politics of Global Warming
    1. 0:00General Motors on a Collision Course with BankruptcyYou’re reading this
    2. 7:13The Economics and Politics of Global Warming
    3. 43:34Sonia Sotomayor and the Perry Mason Connection
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