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Jerry Nault of Windsor, ME
Dec 26, 2008 6:37 AM
Readers of financial pages this year became aware that GM and other companies were "burning through" cash at an alarming rate. Well, they were really spending their cash faster than it could be replenished which is a recipe for insolvency, especially if you have limited or low valued assets for conversion into cash. Maybe your notion of "burning through" cash may be more pyrotechnic.

I have not done the research to find when those words first appeared, but there's probably some financial writer who cobbled together that description and an overworked editor passed over the text without even moving an orange pencil, and "burning through" cash was born.report abuse

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