An historical perspective on GM

Courtesy Marketplace  Mon, 06/01/2009 - 10:05

In the 1950s GM was the largest industrial corporation on earth, and now it's bankrupt. How did this happen?

Commentator and historian John Steele Gordon provides some historical perspective.


 

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