Bailout

At the Pump: Down with Gas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Companies, Economic Slowdown, Chrysler, Car Companies, Gas Prices, Bailout, General Motors, Economic Crisis, Economy, Exxonmobil, Ford, Oil Prices, Henry Paulson, Congress, Oil Companies, Business News
Rick Horowitz

Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.

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What to Do With Detroit?

The Real News | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justin Fox, Jim Stanford, Chrysler, Bailout, Gm, United Auto Workers, United States, Ford, Public Financing, Auto Industry, Unions, Canada, The Real News, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Caw, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Politics News
The Real News

"Governments around the world have always been proactive in growing and nurturing industries like the auto industry. In North America for the last couple of decades, we haven't done that."

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A Kid from Car Country

James Moore | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Unemployment, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News
James Moore

Once this grim place was the most alluring in America. The engine of the world was built here in Michigan. And it is hard to believe we are simply going to let it run out of gas.

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A Universal Bailout

Ben Yarrow | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Health Care, Barack Obama, Economy, Automaker Bailout, Auto Industry, Politics News
Ben Yarrow

It's true that the Big Three have earned their hard-fought demise, after years of lobbying against CAFE standards and resisting reform. That's why if we bail out the autos, they should bail us out, too.

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How to Create a Successful Auto Manufacturer Bailout Plan

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Detroit, Business News
Grant Cardone

I was recently asked to participate on a forum with the LA Business Journal whereby six CEO's weigh in with their opinions of the Government Bail Out of the Automotive Companies.

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Do It For Me, Matchbox Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Alan Mulally, Rep Emanuel Cleaver, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Aston Martin AMV10, Ducati Motorbike, Sen. Bob Corker, Chrysler, Robert Nardelli, Michigan, Lamborghini, Ron Gettelfinger, Ford Mustang, Mini, Financial Crisis, Porche 911, Sen. Chris Dodd, Uaw, Detroit, Indiana, Big Three, Jet, Ceos, Fighter Jet, Nascar, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Chysler, Auto Industry, Business News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, the public.

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How (Not) to Succeed in Business

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Business, Bailout, Corporations, Auto Industry, Telephone Companies, Cable Companies, Consumer Reports, Business News
Peter Clothier

Okay, call me an easy mark. I should have picked up on this long ago. I didn't. But am I alone in thinking that I was somehow cheated?

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The Hits Just Keep Coming

Lance Simmens | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Congress, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, 2008 Election, Cars, Detroit Automakers, 2000 Election, Detroit Bailout Reaction, George W. Bush, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News
Lance Simmens

We have been rudderless for some time, and it shows. The call to public service is now more urgent than at any time in our nation's history.

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Will We Let Detroit Go and the Recession Deepen Out of Disgust Over Financial Bailout?

David Paul | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, U.S. Economy, Creative Destruction, Wall Street Bailout, Joseph Schumpeter, Bailout, Detroit Three, Banks, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Big Three Automakers, Etroit, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Business News
David Paul

We have watched one bailout unfold, and we have not been impressed. We heeded the Wise Men, and now we feel violated. But how do we now hold failing auto companies to a higher standard?

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Automaker Bailout -- Heads They Win, Tails We Lose

Pam Atherton | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Big Three, Richard Wagoner, Automaker Bailout, Bailout, Economy, Foreign Automakers, Bancruptcy, Hudson Institute, Mitt Romney, Dr. Herb London, American Automakers, Chrysler, Automakers Bailout, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Gm, Ford, Detroit Automakers, Detroit, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Home News
Pam Atherton

Frankly, I'm tired of all these big businesses putting their hands out and trying to scare us into giving them money by threatening us with an economic disaster.

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End the Bailout

Alan Schram | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Winston Churchill, Credit Crunch, Libor, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Paulson, Bailout, Wall Street, Financial Services, Business News, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Tarp, Genworth, Business News
Alan Schram

Paulson is now on his third plan for how to spend the cash Congress gave him. Nobody knows what he will do next.

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The Two Trillion Dollar Bailout You Don't Know About

Ben Cohen | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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Ben Cohen

If you thought the $700 billion bailout was bad, think again. The Federal Reserve is apparently handing out two trillion dollars in loans and it won't disclose where the money is going to.

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Romney's Idiotic Plan for Detroit

Toby Barlow | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Economy, Mitt Romney, Big Three, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Toby Barlow

Let's not be coy about the real agenda here. Republicans like Mitt Romney see this as an opportunity to wage war against the UAW.

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What to do with Detroit?

Dave Winer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Bankruptcy, Chrysler, Economy, Gm, Ford, Frontline, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit, Big Three, Financial Crisis, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Corporate Jets, Business News
Dave Winer

We're giving Detroit money we don't have to feed and house their employees and bail out their suppliers. We're doing it to save our country, not to save the auto industry as it's currently configured.

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Obama's One-Time Opportunity: to Restructure the American Economy

Paul Wagler | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession, Obama, Gm, Depression, Economy, Big Three, Automaker Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News
Paul Wagler

Restoring economic growth alone will not restore our fortunes. In fact, too rapid growth -- in house construction, in stock prices and in energy consumption -- has caused the present problem.

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Bail Out Detroit -- Right Now!

Matthew DeBord | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Chrysler, General Motors, Bailout, Sustainable Mobility, Ford, Detroit, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Greening the Economy, Big Three Automakers, The Big Three, Gm, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Cars, Sustainable Energy, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Green Cars, Sustainable Cars, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Green News
Matthew DeBord

We could let Detroit fail and throw money at the many future-car startups that are currently out there, but that won't provide enough product to market to deliver the improvements we require.

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CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, CEO Pay, Big Three Automakers, CEO Salaries, Chysler, Ford, Republican Governors Association, Aig, General Motors, Ernie Fletcher, Ceos, Kentucky, Financial Crisis, CEO Compensation, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Sheriff, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News
Don McNay

The financial system was supposedly broke. America wants the CEOs begging for cash to act like broke people.

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The Tear-Down (Detroit Edition)

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Wage Gap, Congress, Rust Belt, Economic Stimulus Package, Economy, Detroit Three, United Auto Workers, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Financial Crisis, Detroit Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News
Rev. Peter Laarman

The nation is said to be in need to some bottom-up economic stimulus. And now we're going to tear down what remains of the country's manufacturing core?

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Planes, Pains And Automobiles

Dwayne Raymond | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Politics, Bankruptcy, America, Dignity, Mitt Romney, Financial Crisis, Bailout Plan, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News
Dwayne Raymond

These overpaid, egomaniacal "players" should heed Romney's counsel and start playing sensibly, like honorable men. And their first ante in this new game should be their own prompt resignation.

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Congress Scraps a Good Car with Bad Steering

Dan Treul | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Auto Bailout, Congress, Uaw, Chrysler, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Economy, American Auto Industry, Big Three, Bachus, Gm, Auto Industry Bailout, Ford, American Automakers, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Business News
Dan Treul

No one - this Michigan resident included - is out to defend recent management of Ford, GM and Chrysler as "efficient." It doesn't take an industry analyst to determine the status quo broken.

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The Case for Bailing out the Big Three

Brian Ross | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, Toyota, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, Gm, General Motors, Ford, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News
Brian Ross

Apparently there is one thing that liberal and neo-con think-tanks can agree upon: Let Ford, General Motors, and Chrylser fail.

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Elements for a New Economy

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Education, President-Elect, Bailout, Environmentalism, Diy, Vocational Education, Economy, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News
Charles D. Ellison

Let's admit, a reasonable "big idea" alternative to the "bailout" plan is in short supply. Our imagination these days only goes so far as what fixes we can buy ourselves out of.

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Obama Needs an FDR-Style Public Works Program

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Henry Paulson, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, Bailout, Mike Papantonio, Economy, Regulation, Recession, Main Street, Business News
Mike Papantonio

There is a fraternity-like mentality that exists among corporate CEOs. There is an illusory standard of what "moral" or "legitimate" actually means in decision making for that elite crowd.

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Chinese Want To Buy the Big 3 Automakers

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, Mitt Romney, Richard Selby, Gm, Ford, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, The Big 3, China Detroit, China Products, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Bailout, Detroit, China Automakers, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, China, China Big 3, Business News
Jane Hamsher

All the Shock Doctrine fanatics cheering to drive the the Big 3 into bankruptcy "restructuring," like Mitt Romney, might want to think about the implications of this.

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Should the Government Bail Out the Big Three U.S. Automakers? HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In

Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Detroit, Gm, Cars, The Big 3, Chysler, Ford, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Huffington Post

Huffington Post contributors weigh in on whether Congress should bail out the Big Three Detroit automakers. Keep checking back as the debate continues.

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