Think of General Motors as the metaphor of the Keynesian economy in one company -- massive simultaneous spending on unsustainable capital investment and unsustainable consumer consumption. Or as Bloomberg reporters Doron Levin and John Helyar describe it, “burning the furniture in order to stay warm.”
GM -- “burning the furniture in order to stay warm”
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