http://truthonthemarket.com/2009/10/29/rhetoric-versus-reality-part-ii/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://truthonthemarket.com/2009/10/29/rhetoric-versus-reality-part-ii/#comment-7902 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:11:39 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/?p=3030#comment-7902 Those congressmembers presumably could have attempted to influence GM regarding those dealerships absent any U.S. government investment in the company. Is the implication that they were more likely to attempt such influence or that such influence was more likely successful as a result of such investment? Or both? And is it anything more than an implication? According to the article, GM says that it may have revisited some individual cases based on the congressmembers’ intervention but that the company ultimately made the merit-based decisions. Is that necessarily a bad result?

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