The latest analysis of General Motors’ financial condition is grim, indeed. They’re asking for an additional $30 billion, but the auditors are asking a far different question.

I love the term, “shovel ready,” used to describe those projects states have ready to go as soon as the stimulus money is released. Given the grim state of the economy and the widespread despair over the the condition of the stock market (and thus our retirement investments), I keep thinking of another meaning for [...]