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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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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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There's Only One End of the World... and This Isn't It

Zachary Karabell | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession Fears, Gm, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Economy, Stock Market, Armageddon, Economic Crisis, Business News
Zachary Karabell

The financial crisis is a good, albeit painful, reminder that the stocks, bonds, gold, silver have no intrinsic value. We act as if they do, because it gives us some sense of an orderly world.

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Automaker Bankruptcy Could Be "Prepackaged" By Obama Administration

Bloomberg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bankruptcy, Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Obama Big Three, Gm, Ford, Obama Automaker Bailout, Big Three, Cars, Barack Obama, Business News

President-Elect Barack Obama`s transition team is exploring a swift, prepackaged bankruptcy for automakers as a possible solution to the industry's fi...

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Automakers Get Deadline To Make Their Case

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Robert Nardelli, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Big Three, Congress, Alan Mullaly, Business News

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders ordered Detroit's Big Three automakers Friday to submit what amounts to a detailed loan application to Congress ...

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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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Apparently, It's the Government's Fault Detroit Is Bankrupt

Andrew Winston | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Japanese Auto Sales, Rick Wagoner, Ford, US Auto Sales Rate, Jim Collins, Toyota, Honda, Wall Street Journal, CAFE Standards, Chrysler, Nissan, Auto Sales, Good to Great, Detroit Bailout, Suburu, Barack Obama, Business News
Andrew Winston

We're seeing an amazing act of willful ignorance here. The predicament that Detroit has found itself in is an American business tragedy. Let's not make it worse by lying to ourselves.

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A case of extreme executive cluelessness

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Horrible Optics, Chrysler, Bad PR, Key Questions, Executive Stupidity, Gm, Ford, Home News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Just a question I've been thinking about since yesterday... What do you think the boys at the Big Three auto companies were thinking about when each t...

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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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Big Three CEOs And Their Private Jets (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Private Jets, Chrysler, Slideshow, Corporate Jets, Gm, Alan Mulally, Robert Nardelli, Automobile Industry, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Big Three, Cars, Big Three Automakers, Automobile Industry Bailout, Business News

The CEOs of the nation's biggest three automakers flew to Washington DC yesterday to make their case before congress that the auto industry is despera...

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Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Finance, Economy, Ford, Financial Crisis, Congress, Carl Levin, Business News

WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three, collapsed Thursday as Con...

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6 Myths About GM, Ford, and Chrysler

US News and World Report | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Ford, Big Three, Cars, Business News

As the automakers careen toward bankruptcy, here are some of the myths complicating the debate over the future of the Detroit Three: They don't bui...

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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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The Great Myth of Main Street

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Bailouts, Economic Meltdown, Anger, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I have worked in theaters, as a cab driver, in small companies, large corporations and mega-watt global behemoths, and they are all the same. They are people working for a living.

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Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)

Steve Parker | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Peter Morici, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, David Halberstam, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford, Robert Lutz, Nissan, Robert Nardelli, US Senate, Detroit, Richard Shelby, President Bush, Masters of the Universe, Northwest Airlines, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Alan Mulally, Pebble Beach, Detroit Three, Washington DC, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tokyo Motor Show, Ron Gettelfinger, Code Pink, Harry Reid, Republicans, Dearborn, Business News
Steve Parker

This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.

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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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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: Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Gm, Cars, The Big 3, Chysler, Ford, Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit, 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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Mitt Romney's Ye-Olde-Times Plan For Detroit

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Mitt Romney Detroit, Mitt Romney Automakers, Unemployment, Big Three Automakers, Automotive Industry, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Detroit, Gm, Mitt Romney, Cars, Ford, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Jeffrey Feldman

As a foray into the troubled waters of the biggest industry crisis of our time, Romney's plan epitomizes how Republicans think about the economy: by pretending we live in a Dickensian version of the Eisenhower era.

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Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets To Plead For Public Funds

ABC News | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Private Jets, Chrysler, Gm, Finance, Robert Nardelli, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Financial Crisis, Cars, Big 3 Private Jets, Big 3 Private Flights, Big 3 Ceos' Private Flights, Business News

The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto i...

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