However Wal-Mart’s sales grow, so grows the US economy — and in the past two quarters it’s been a miserable story from the retailer: some store sales have sunk, as overall retail sales have drifted lower.
General Motors 
Bailed-out execs face 90% pay-cut
The US government is set to order the companies that received the most money in last year’s Wall St bailout to slash compensation for their top executives.
Hummer to go “lean and green”
Hummer are planning to revamp their image as “gas-guzzling, road-hogging, oversized machines rich people buy to flaunt their wealth.” Good luck with that.
GM’s rear vision
General Motors’ groupthink at management level means the writing was on the wall years before its bankruptcy.
The billionaire who’s buying GM’s Saturn
USA Today chats to Roger Penske, racing fanatic, America’s second largest car dealer and now the man who’s buying General Motors’ Saturn brand.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Qantas responds to Crikey about inflight news censoring
Qantas does not seek to influence Channel Nine’s on air content. We do exercise this right of veto for items we believe may distress or offend our passengers, writes Michael Freedman.
GM’s 10 biggest turkeys
In pictorial form, the 10 biggest turkeys in the history of the ruined US carmaker
The long, winding road to a US turnaround
If the US recession somehow peters out this year, it will be nothing short of a miracle, writes Irwin Kellner.
Time to celebrate GM’s failure
The demise of General Motors opens up the floodgates for a sorely needed era of clean, green transport, says Aditya Chakrabortty.
What Australia can learn from the demise of GM
Australia is as dependent on coal as General Motors was on the gas-guzzling SUV. Will we learn from their example and do away with this relic of the old industrial revolution? asks Ben McNeil.
China buys Hummer
It’s the big GM garage sale, and a Chinese company has snapped up perhaps one od the greatest symbols of excessive western capitalism — Hummer.
Forget GM, focus on the future
The old adage that what’s good for American is good for GM still doesn’t make sense, despite Obama’s bailout.
I was Romania’s car czar: lessons in nationalising your auto industry
Ion Mihai Pacepa ran Romania’s car industry under the Soviet Union. With the US Government set to take over General Motors, he offers Congress some advice.
Guy Rundle: RIP Detroit, as the US goes socialist
Detroit is the first modern urban ruin, the largest city that has simply been allowed to die, writes Guy Rundle.
Lists: General Motors’ bankruptcy by the numbers
General Motors has filed for bankruptcy, but it’s only the beginning of an entirely new chapter. We crunch the numbers.
Political snippets: Tensions running hot in India
In light of recent tension between India and Australia, Richard Farmer calls for an alcohol-free game of cricket at Lord’s.
The brave new post-Detroit world
The slimmed-down automaker set to emerge in GM’s wake finally calls time on the industrial era.
US autoworkers confront the awful truth
The traditional lure of a well-paid full-time job on the assembly line has all but dried up in the United States.
How would you market GM?
Marketing insiders on whether they’d take the bankrupt General Motors on as a client and how they’d market and rebrand the embattled company.
Video of the Day: GM spins bankruptcy — it’s not death, it’s “rebirth”
It’s the sound of a company struggling. In a new ad, General Motors pitches its financial problems as opportunity.
Interactive map: GM’s sphere of influence
The Detroit News’s visual display of GM’s plants and manufacturing employees, as well as suppliers and retirees in the United States and around the world.
Motor-coloured memories
NY Times’ auto blogger James Cobb gets nostaligc over GM cars. Bless.
The GM winners: lawyers, accountants, and paper-pushers
There are some people who will come out winners in the demise of GM, writes Daniel Gross.
