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Originally Posted by jms62
Yes. They lost 10 billion or 10 million a day over the 3 years they held this stock … BUT … they saved 1 million immediate jobs and countless related jobs (parts suppliers, driver and other services) and kept a huge crater from developing in the economy at a time when we could least absorb it. Those million jobs also bought goods and services of other companies no doubt saving additional jobs. It is unbalanced to say they/we lost 10 billion. The revenue from those jobs and sales that were saved went to the Fed via taxes.
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i wonder tho if someone else would have bought them. that's typically what happens when a company can't right the ship. there's demand for those vehicles, that demand wouldn't have dried up.
it's just too bad that what was essentially a loan was handled like it was, which cost taxpayers plenty.