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> Indeed. Though personally I feel perhaps Boeing should be left to fail, I'm considering going long if the stock slides further in the short term because I anticipate some form of bailout/buyout.

I don't want to see it wind down as a going concern, but I wouldn't mind a bankruptcy and seeing the executives and board of directors fired with their compensation clawed back.

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It's unbelievable that the CEO still has his job.

The shitstorm is far from over; who would want this on their plate? Better to let the current guy ride it out and then replace him once things can’t get any worse.

Instead of being fired with $50 mil severance package?

The only people that would suffer in a Chapter 11 would be the pensioners of Boeing. If anything, the executives would get bonuses to keep them in place during the restructuring.

The already perilous union jobs, with good benefits etc, in Seattle would be lost and there would be a race to the bottom by other states to claim the production facilities.

>a race to the bottom by other states to claim the production facilities.

Instead of a race to the top where people can just say five infinity dollars?

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