It's greater than their average annual sales. 3 dollars from every man woman and child w/ in the US borders.
Irrelevant, and irrelevant.
It was a loan, and the only reason you have anything to say about it at all is because the loan source was the government. The fact is, companies take loans all the time to restructure their debt. In better times, they'll do secondary offers of new shares, but obviously at the time the market was taking a shit. So if by happenstance the gov was offering zero-interest or low interest loans, and they
didn't avail themselves of the opportunity,
that would be another example of a series of bad business decisions.
I understand where you're coming from, and all. Since I read and watch this shit pretty much 24/7, maybe I'm a little desensitized to it. Bill Gates is worth a hundred billion, Bernie Madoff stole like 30 billion. 2.5 for Harley doesn't shake me up all that much, when at the time shit was collapsing left and right.
Harley is an American icon, and so is Chevy. If shit like that goes down, we lose big face, globally. Its the core of a country that's calculated total worth is fifty-something
TRILLION. They're not gonna let that happen for the price of a battleship.
The threat they face by doing all this stimulus is basically a replication of the lost decade(s) in Japan. You can read about it below, if interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_%28Japan%29