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...wooden but plucky CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, told the press that if his company is allowed to go into Chapter 11, it will end up being a simple liquidation. GM will be torn into pieces and sold off as scrap. He made one good point to support his point of view. If a bankruptcy of the No. 1 U.S. car company drags on for several months, potential auto buyers will purchase vehicles from competitors that they view as being "safe". No one wants to buy a car that won't be serviced. Wagoner has made this point before...
...paid out the bonuses, probably obtained by the employees fair and square in outrageous employment packages. No one seems to have disclosed the name of the people who signed the agreements on behalf of AIG, or who approved them in the first place. AIG's clueless CEO, Edward Libby, will go before Congress to try to explain that. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...Furthermore, AIG's newly installed CEO, Edward M. Liddy, told Treasury last week that the AIG traders in question were still needed because only they could minimize the damage they had done. "AIGFP's books also contain a significant number of complex - so-called bespoke - transactions that are difficult to understand and manage," the company announced in a document sent to the Treasury by Liddy. "This is one reason replacing key traders and risk managers would not be practical on a large scale. Personal knowledge of the trades and the unique systems at AIGFP will be critical to an effective...
...estimated revenue of 100 million yuan ($15 million) per year. Running three popular online-novel websites, Shanda boasts a total readership of 25 million and is growing at 10 million per year, according the company. "The Chinese people need a platform to express their creativity," said Hou Xiaoqiang, founding CEO of Shanda Literature. "I think our online-literature sites can partly cater to that need." (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...Still, Hou realizes that to expand readership further in the long term, it may not be enough to rely solely on amateur writers and their largely similar tomb-raider or martial-arts novels. "We have been in talks with big-name writers like Yu Hua as well," says the CEO. "We will be much more comprehensive than...