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GAO says GM and Chrysler are 'unlikely' to pay back funds

 Nov 04, 2009 03:00 PM UTC
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"Treasury's own analysis suggests that the circumstances necessary for the companies to reach market capitalizations high enough for Treasury to fully recovery its equity investments are unlikely," a Government Accounting Office report on the taxpayer-funded bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler found.

The problem is this: In order for taxpayers on General Motors to be made whole, GM will have to hit a market capitalization of $66.9 billion.

The highest GM's market cap has ever been is $57 billion -- and that was in 2000, when circumstances were very, very different.

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