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G.E. Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff
- davi 16y agosingle page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/business/05ge.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/business/05ge.html?pagewan...
- ryanlchan 16y agoPaywall bypass: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/business/05ge.html?pagewanted=all http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/0...
- patrickgzill 16y agoI thought GE Finance was a big part of GE?
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- quanticle 16y agoThey're trying to make it a smaller part after having such a large part of their profits come from finance burned them during the last crash.
- hga 16y agoTo quote Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric#Businesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric#Businesses): "Since over half of GE's revenue is derived from financial services, it is arguably a financial company with a manufacturing arm." Even if they are backing out of that, it'll take a long time. And I have to wonder if they're willing to downsize the company by one half....
- anamax 16y agoHas GE stopped lobbying to have their competitor's products banned? Has GE stopped lobbying for preferential treatement of their products?
- khafra 16y agoI hope it's not just PR, because it's exactly what I'd like to hear.