Sad, but true: Some automakers may be worth more dead than alive.

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Alcatel-Lucent would be worth more dead than alive.

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Lenders have limited patience with funding such operating losses, and if there is no prospect for reducing them, then the company would be worth more to creditors dead than alive.

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