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Great moments in the history of statism Pt. V
Beers with Demo —
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If Venezuela isn’t careful, they’re going to wind-up looking like the U.S. President Hugo Chavez’s government on Wednesday nationalized two coffee companies , including Fama de America, one of Venezuela’s largest coffee producers. The state-run Bolivarian News Agency said presidential decrees published in ...1 day ago -
Automaker Bailout Sold on Empty Promises
The Foundry —
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Have an idea but strapped for cash? Not sure if the idea is going to pan out? That’s all right, just ask the government for a few billion dollars. That’s what the automakers did. USA Today reports : If you believed all the talk from Chrysler about how our tax dollars would help finance its fast-track ...1 day ago -
Evaluating Cash for Clunkers: The Case of the Missing Denominator
Angry Bear —
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by Tom Bozzo An AP story (via Felix Salmon ) based on an analysis of "Cash for Clunkers" transactions is circulating with the non-news that a number of the transactions involved trades of gas-guzzling trucks for only modestely less gas-guzzling trucks. Heres the lede: The most common deals under the governments $3 ...4 days ago -
GM CEO Fritz “Transparency” Henderson: We’re Beating Secret Targets
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Transparency. It’s what GM CEO Fritz Henderson promised taxpayers in sworn testimony in front of Congress, post $52 billion bailout (and the rest). As TTAC pointed out previously, bullshit. After not releasing the dead dealer list promised to Senator Jay Rockefeller, the nationalized automaker is now proud to ...1 week ago -
It Pays to Skip the Bailouts
HolyCoast.com —
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Americans think pretty highly of Ford these days: On the heels of Ford’s better-than-expected third quarter profits and its promise of solid profitability by 2011, 68% of Americans adults hold a favorable opinion of the one company that passed on a government bailout. Ford continues to far outdistance public ...1 week ago -
Chrysler Reveals 5-Year Plan for Hybrids, Electric Cars
Earth2Tech —
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For electric cars at Chrysler, the game won’t kick into high gear until 2011 and beyond. The Detroit automaker, which tapped A123Systems earlier this year to develop battery cells for upcoming electric vehicles, said in a meeting today detailing its five-year business plan that it’s working to introduce a test ...1 week ago -
Chrysler Reveals 5-Year Plan for Hybrids, Electric Cars
Renewable Energy News Syndicator —
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For electric cars at Chrysler, the game won’t kick into high gear until 2011 and beyond. The Detroit automaker, which tapped A123Systems earlier this year to develop battery cells for upcoming electric vehicles, said in a meeting today detailing its five-year business plan that it’s working to introduce a test ...1 week ago -
First Outta Recession Dummy
HolyCoast.com —
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Thats F.O.R.D. to you and me: Ford, the only Detroit automaker to dodge direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter and forecast a "solidly profitable" 2011. The automaker said Monday earnings were fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost ...1 week ago -
China Considering Challenging US Auto Subsidies
Lakeshore Laments —
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Truth be told, I saw this coming when the World Trade Organization recently ruled in Boeings favor against the European Unions long history of subsidizing Airbus (Airbus has rarely -- if ever -- made a profit without British, French, and German taxpayers forking the bill.). Eventually, some country would look at ...2 weeks ago -
GMAC – Ally Bank Asking For Further Bailout
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On June 7, 2009 I predicted : This is another disaster waiting to happen. I’m guessing we’ll see the ruins of the 31yr old in charge of GM sooner rather than later. Well, here it is . GMAC, also known as Ally Bank, is now asking for a further bailout. It’s worth revisiting what the American Banking ...2 weeks ago -
Treasury Dept. Punishes Bailout Recipients with Pay Raise
Diary of Fools. —
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As you may have seen on the news ticker scrolling underneath the 24-hour balloon boy coverage last week, the Treasury Dept. announced big cuts in compensation for top execs at companies that received bailout packages (AIG, Citi, Bank of America, GM, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial). Well, according to a Wall ...2 weeks ago -
Fisker Details Plans for “Project Nina” at Old GM Plant, Eyes Exports
Earth2Tech —
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Project Nina — the $47,400 plug-in hybrid vehicle that startup Fisker Automotive aims to launch in 2012 — has a home. The Irvine, Calif.-based startup announced this morning that it will buy an old General Motors assembly plant in Wilmington, Del., for $18 million drawing funds from the $528.7 million ...2 weeks ago -
GM CEO Henderson: Getting a raise despite the pay czars cuts
DailyFinance —
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Filed under: Company News , Economy , People , American International Group, INC. , Bank of America , Citigroup , General Motors Americans can be excused for thinking that executives at the seven companies receiving TARP bailout funds would see a pay cut this year, following yesterdays news that the U.S. ...3 weeks ago -
More Transparency Please?
HolyCoast.com —
Authority: 588
Yesterday I had the story about Obamas "Pay Master" Kenneth Feinberg who will be slashing the pay and bonuses for those future former executives of companies taken over by the government. I have to think those execs will be bailing out of there as quickly as they can, leaving those crippled companies even further ...3 weeks ago -
The First Draft: Executive pay crackdown
Front Row Washington —
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For a quiet day, there was surprising consensus among editors about the top news — big-time bankers who got government bailout money are going to get their paychecks slashed. The coverage was fairly straight, but there was a certain glee about the way the story made its way to the top spot in most newspapers. ...3 weeks ago -
GM Going All Out–Seven to Ten New Models Coming Soon
CarBuyersNoteBook —
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Consider that, despite all common sense or simple logic, we Americans actually own a major chunk of GM thanks to the massive bailouts they’ve received courtesy of us. Thus, it behooves us to keep an eye on our investment, and for some reason, they’re spending like drunken sailors.No, that’s an insult to the ...4 weeks ago -
GM Nears Moment of Truth for Chevy Volt as Green Halo
Earth2Tech —
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The burden loaded onto General Motors’ extended-range electric Chevy Volt has been heavy since before the “New GM” — the company that emerged this summer after the federally managed bailout and bankruptcy process — was even born. In the financial viability plans that GM submitted to Congress in pursuit ...4 weeks ago -
Car Buyers Continue to Punish Bailout Companies
HolyCoast.com —
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From Mickey Kaus : “GM’s sales are down 45% from last September (when sales were already bad enough to drive the company into bankruptcy). Chrysler is down 42%. Ford is only down 5%. Car buyers are clearly punishing the two bailout recipients brutally. Robert Farago of Truth About Cars predicts that GM and ...6 weeks ago -
Tales from Bailout Nation Pt. XVIII
Beers with Demo —
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The federal government is unlikely to recover all of the $81 billion in bailout assistance it extended to the automobile industry, according to a congressional panel. The Congressional Oversight Panel said in a new report that the $23 billion in aid extended late last year to Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. ...8 weeks ago
