Financial Crisis: President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: The Treasury Department sold its final shares of the Detroit auto giant on Monday, recovering $39 billion of the $49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago, according to 660 News. Now, the American auto industry is back, President Barack Obama said in a statement. Some of the most high-tech, fuel-efficient cars in the world are once again designed, engineered, and built right here in America and the rest of the world is buying more of them than ever before, he said and DETROIT The U.S. government ended up losing $10.5 billion on the General Motors bailout, but it says the alternative would have been far worse. Without the bailout, the country would have lost more than a million jobs, and the economy could have slipped from recession into a depression, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said on a conference call with reporters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.