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Immelt: Not shrinking GE Capital before 2008 was a mistake
“By the time the financial crisis hit, not having GE Capital be smaller, you know, clearly was a mistake, right?”
Immelt: GE used financial services cash to fund industrial investments
“We're kind of using the financial service cash to help fund some of those things. You know, our investors really all they recognized was kind of like earnings per share growth. So, you know, we were doing it in a language that they understood.”