Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Too Big To Fail

Great perspectives from yesterday's All Things Considered discussion on what it means to be "too big to fail" from NPR:

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I particularly appreciate the viewpoint that a future GM would focus more on design and specialty parts/products rather than its current form. A bankruptcy would certainly help prioritize these new possibilities. Comparative advantage tells us that trade (in essence, globalization) benefits both countries when efforts are made to capitalize upon what the other nation produces best.

If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it from them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage.

- Adam Smith

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