It's Thursday, November 21st.

Welcome to Market Forward.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from fool.com, Matt Kopenheffer, and David

Hanson.

Thanks for being here guys.

Hey, Thursday, Chris. Happy Thursday. I say from

fool.com, increasingly I feel like I should say from where the money is, the hit

podcast on iTunes, on Stitcher, on Swell. And if you're not listening to it, you should be.

We're going to...

There are companies, there are retail companies reporting earnings this morning.

We're not going to get into that.

We will get into that on the Motley

Full Money radio show so check that out this weekend because we will definitely

be talking about holiday retail but we're going to talk about the j.

Morgan settlement we're going to talk about the mysterious world of Bitcoin, but we're going to start with General Motors.

Shares of GM up this morning. The U.S. Treasury Department has said it will sell its remaining shares of GM by the end of the year.

This is all stemming from the 2009 bailout and all told

it appears that Uncle Sam and by Uncle Sam I mean we the taxpayers will recoup.

The number I saw, Matt, was $39.6 billion worth pointing out

that the actual bailout was $49.5 billion.

So we're going to, we're going to have a shortfall of $10 billion.

We're going to have a shortfall of $10 billion, but all told for the entire TARP program

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