GOLDING’S TAKE: GM's new helmsman hits choppy water

Author: Rob Golding | 24 February 2011

Dan Akerson sounds like the man who is running the business at GM. The wounded old company released its 2010 earnings today and the new man in the wheelhouse steered strongly into the swell of questions from equity analysts and financial and auto industry journalists.

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