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• Former auto task force chief calls GM one of worst-run companies ever

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Management , General Motors (GM) Speaking at Bloomberg Washington Summit Friday , Steven Rattner, the former head of the governments auto task force, wasnt exactly in the mood for pulling punches. Referring to his time overseeing the government involvement in the auto industry, he said that "They ...
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• Product Roadmap You Can Believe In: Fords Blockbuster Idea

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  Just when you thought the US auto industry is doomed, the Mullaly brain trust comes up with this idea of unsurpassed brilliance. Even Steve Rattner cant help but applaud in uncharaceteristic profanity-free silence.   h/t Wall St. Cheat Sheet
  2 days ago

• A New G.M. Struggles to Shed Its Bureaucracy

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  General Motors, which is beginning to cut layers off its legendary bureaucracy, will present its first post-bankruptcy scorecard on Monday, when the company reports third-quarter earnings and its cash reserves.
  3 days ago

• Blue Wolf Exec to Head U.S. Pension Agency

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Joshua Gotbaum, an operating partner at private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital, is expected to be named director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the White House said Monday.
  6 days ago

• A Company Of Fortune: Twitter--55 Million Unique Monthly Visitors

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 130
  By Loyd Eskildson "The Auto Bailout" (Steven Rattner) tells how the author moved from chief economic correspondent for the New York Times to founding the investment firm Quadrangle Group, and then to leading President Obamas auto task force. The work was seen as a restructuring challenge, not as an ongoing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Steven Rattner, Czar of Melodrama

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 712
  While everyone else has had their nose buried in Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail , I’ve been assiduously parsing my own gripping narrative of financial malfeasance and managerial tomfoolery: former car czar Steven Rattner’s Fortune account of his hectic days at the head of the Obama administration’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rattner: U.S. stake in GM worth $25 billion

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 665
  Steven Rattner, former head of the Obama administration’s auto taskforce, says that at currently projected stock values, the 61 percent stake that the government took in General Motors should be worth about $25 billion. The Detroit Free Press reports : The government has sunk $50 billion into GM and $14 billion ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vro9m Ro9m

  
  Dialogue...2008 — Authority: 130
  Good Morning! Having opined about the BAILOUT at length, if you remember we were supporters of the bailout. At times while expressing our opinions we wished to have been a "fly on the wall" in some of the various meetings to get a feel for the mood, emotions, context. Well here it is...from Steve Rattner From ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hard times on the hardwood: Nets take austerity measures to the next level.

  
  Fear The Beard — Authority: 125
  Yes, it is more than a game over there in New Jersey. I came across this article in the NY Observer . The Nets owner, Bruce Rattner, is now “renting” out his players off the court. According to the article, “For $25,000 you can get courtside tickets to 10 games and, for one hour, you can have a Nets player at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quote Of The Day: Filling The Pipe Edition

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Changes are coming to GM’s corporate ranks, likely as soon as government pay regulations are put into effect. CFO Ray Young’s departure is already a sure thing, and former car czarlet Steve Rattner has revealed that Fritz Henderson is an interim placeholder in everything but title. Oh, and Bob Lutz won’t last ...
  3 weeks ago

• An inside look at GM, Chrysler bailouts

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 665
  The Detroit News has an interesting look behind the scenes of the Obama administration’s auto taskforce as it debated what to do about the sinking financial fortunes of GM and Chrysler after taking office in January. The article is based on an interview with the chairman of that taskforce, Steven Rattner, and an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 10.21.09

  
  Car Leasing News, Reviews and Stories — Authority: 163
  Tickled pink over the Lexus LFA configurator Lexus LFA Configurator - Click above for high-res image gallery This appears to be the week of the Lexus LFA, with tons of new images (both live and press), videos, and details spilling out... Tokyo 2009: Honda SkyDeck, is this the future of the Odyssey? Honda SkyDeck ...
  3 weeks ago

• GMs Ex-CEO: Worse Than You Thought

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 137
  If youve been following the trials of the auto industry this last year, then you already know GMs management team, led by former CEO Rick Wagoner, left a lot to be desired. But, even so, Wagoner comes off as unbelievably lame in Steve Rattners account of his time as Obamas auto guru. To wit: At GMs Renaissance ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rattner recounts auto bailout, was "shocked" and "stunned" at condition of GM, Chrysler

  
  Car Leasing News, Reviews and Stories — Authority: 163
  Filed under: Government/Legal , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Chrysler , GM Steve Rattner is a man we admire but do not envy. Rattner, a former Wall Street banking type with zero experience in the automotive or manufacturing world, was tasked by President Obama with guiding General Motors and Chrysler through ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fortune Exclusive: Steven Rattner, Head of President Obama’s Team Auto

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 651
  Steven Rattner, the head of Team Auto for President Obama, explains how the restructuring of GMC & Chrysler happened . My initial take: Rattner maintains an aloof, self-absorbed tone throughout the narrative. He gives some lip service to allowing the auto companies to enter bankruptcy, but seems to ignore it as ...
  3 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Man misses runaway bus in Russia by inches

  
  Car Leasing News, Reviews and Stories — Authority: 163
  Filed under: Safety , Videos , Russia Bus nearly hits pedestrian in Russia - Click above to watch the video after the break Driving is dangerous. We know that, yet the vast majority of us seem willing to take the risks inherent with strapping ourselves inside a two-ton projectile to share the road with other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rattner’s Bailout

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 723
  One key to reading Steve Rattner’s long narrative on his role in the auto bailout is this passage: I was stunned by the suggestion that the government, GM’s only source of fresh capital, was somehow out of bounds for asking for the resignation of a CEO who had lost $13 billion of taxpayer money in three ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rattner recounts auto bailout, was "shocked" and "stunned" at condition of GM, Chrysler

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Government/Legal , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Chrysler , GM Steve Rattner is a man we admire but do not envy. Rattner, a former Wall Street banking type with zero experience in the automotive or manufacturing world, was tasked by President Obama with guiding General Motors and Chrysler through ...
  3 weeks ago

• Steve Rattner — [Quote Of The Day]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 733
  On what the Chooch-enthusiast Car Czar learned after spending time with automakers. Apparently, looking like Abraham Lincoln doesnt make you a good leader. [ Fortune ]
  3 weeks ago

• Rattner (Again)?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  No sooner than we took note of the sudden appearance of Fortunes puff piece on the restructuring genius embodied in Steven Rattner, the man himself appears on Bloomberg Live TV (adroitly brought to you by the new E-Class by Mercedes Benz!) almost literally reading word-for-word from a cutout of the Fortune ...
  3 weeks ago

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