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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 164 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good. Maybe they'll be the first corporation forced to eat crow for their corner cutting.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 108 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't count on it, the government will bail them out if they drop further

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't be so sure. Government bailouts tend to happen because they're almost forces to. Where the economy can suffer greater loss without the bailout. Generally, in a scenario where a company or corporation has nestled itself into something the economy is dependent on. Of course what happens after that bailout is the bad part where it often seems nothing is done to alleviate the economy's dependency, nor is the actions of the body receiving the bailout regulated, monitored, or needing to pay it back.

I don't know how much dire a state the US economy would be in with Boeing missing or significantly damaged, but can't imagine it's perceived to be as bad as the crooked banks.

Edit: Oh, wait. The military is dependent on them. Yeah, there'd be a bailout lol

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Boeing has MASSIVE government contracts, and does a ton for both the military and NASA. They're absolutely bailout material, as much as it hurts me to say.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm waiting for a condition of the bailout to be separating Boeing Defense from Boeing Aerospace, so the aerospace side can fail

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Well looking at their income per sector commercial is the largest. And they probably split r&d across these sectors. So losing civil aviation probably would mean they can be less competitive as defense contractors.

[–] Ketchup@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

BA is one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average used to measure the performance of the domestic market. It practically represents an entire sector but itself. The Fed will absolutely help BA

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They'll just start selling their planes at a discount to win back buyers, then cut more corners to make a profit at the discounted rate.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stock prices to drop sufficiently.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd consider that to be "eating Crow", considering that's the one thing they're supposed to be concerned about.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

They'll just use the opportunity to buy back stock.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Boeing should be nationalized. If a company is "to big to fail" they inevitably do because of bad leadership and greed. They need to be nationalized as part of the bail out package. But because our government is corrupt Boeing with get billions of tax dollars to save them.