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In the ideal world, when you sell more cars, you will make more money. But in the real world, things took an ugly turn for America’s automaking sweetheart General Motors as investors lashed out after Goldman Sachs analysts’ downgraded the stock to a SELL as the week began.

The stock closed at $43.37 a share on Monday, down 2.84% a share and fell further on Tuesday to close at $42.98, another 1% drop. The stock purging was reinforced by fears that GM shares could see double-digit declines in the next year or so.

However, what seems to be amusing is that the Chevy maker managed to sell more cars the past month than any other September since 2007, with total sales jumping 12% to 279,397 units, driven by a 17% surge at Chevrolet and a 9% hike at GMC. GM even managed the undercut the Ford rally, as the GM competitor saw monthly lower sales than earlier in the year — something that the Buick maker was sure to improve on.

But Goldman, in its optimistic aura, believes that annual units sold will decline over the next few years, and probably hit their bottom at 15 million units sold in 2020. Good going there, party poopers!

Anyways, investors later were like, “that’s not right! This is ‘Merica. We do what we want!”, sending the shares on a brief ascent on Tuesday’s after-hours trading. Boy, aren’t we glad we have the public behind the trucks that shape the country? As Sarah Palin once famously said, “Buck up or stay in the truck.”

This post originally written by me first appeared in the AlphaNews weekly newsletter dated November 1, 2017. You can read it here.