Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
So, you don't offer cheaper financing than anyone else does in order to support the sale of GM cars?
All right, so GM is offering, in effect, to pay a portion of the consumer's finance cost.
If it had been up to me, I would have told the banks, all of them including GMAC, 'Take the TARP money, charge it off.'
Well, but if we're talking about time, I mean, I presume the possibility of a quick 363 sale, as happened in the auto industry, could have made this a relatively speedy procedure----
So, what I'd like to start with is--I just want to make sure I understand the business model.
So, the notion that somehow we save money by propping up a weaker, more impaired company than we do by cleaning it up and putting it on the block just doesn't add up for me.
So, right now, your business model is that you have the exclusive right to sell, in effect, zero percent financing on GM cars.
I've always believed that people misunderstood TARP. We should not be dancing in the street because banks have repaid their TARP funds.
You left the equity intact, all of the debt continued to be repaid at 100 cents on the dollar; a far better deal to have been an investor in GMAC than to have been an investor in GM.





