Is there any way of keeping track of GM's profit and loss in the coming years? I think it would be interesting to keep track of the company's progress under partial-nationalization.
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For the most part, yes. However, with the increasing nationalization of industry, it will become evermore difficult to determine actual or true costs and prices, and therefore, profits and loses.
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Jonathan M. F. Catalán:Is there any way of keeping track of GM's profit and loss in the coming years? I think it would be interesting to keep track of the company's progress under partial-nationalization.
No. The government has given them $50+ billion already. They will not be profitable, until they pay that back, which will never happen.
At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.
Obviously, the compilation of these statistics would serve as a case in point. I am not starting a theoretical discussion on General Motors. I am asking how I would keep track of these statistics. With inflation, the stock market doesn't make the cut.
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