五年以前的11月3日,在当时看来最不可思议的事件成了那周的头条:百年来作为美国工业实力象征的通用汽车宣告破产。通用首席执行官Rick Wagoner所披露的破产消息紧跟在两个月前由雷曼兄弟破产而引发的汽车销售额急剧下降之后。这一突变引发了一系列可载入史册的历史性事件:包括政府的救助听证会、来自布什政府和奥巴马政府的 Five years ago, on November 3, what seemed to me the most incredible at that time became the headline of the week: General Motors, a symbol of American industrial strength for centuries, went bankrupt. The bankruptcy information disclosed by Rick Wagoner, the chief executive, follows immediately after the steep decline in car sales caused by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers two months ago. This mutation triggered a series of historical events that could be put down in history including the government’s rescue hearing, the Bush administration and the Obama administration