Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The Obama Administration has decided to play hardball with the auto industry. In a White House speech just a short time ago, President Obama unveiled a new plan to help the auto industry, and he said that the auto industry failure “is not the fault of its workers but a “failure of leadership” in Washington [...]
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Filed under: Credit Crisis, Democrats, Economic News, Economic Stimulus, Economy, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Recession, Wall Street
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Sales continued to fall for all automakers in December. The interesting statistic is that GM and Nissan had more sales, along with Ford, than Toyota, Honda or Chrysler.
While all had sales plunge again in December GM and Nissan lead the pack with ‘only’ a 31% drop in sales. Ford was next at 32% drop for [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Walter Brasch
Congress should bend over, dig into the public coffers once again, and give the auto industry everything it wants—even though 61 percent of Americans oppose a bailout, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll.
A couple of weeks ago, CEOs from GM, Ford, and Chrysler, known collectively as the Big 3, revved up their corporate [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
My local newspaper editor, as he does regularly, once again attacked unions as the problem in America. This is the same editor who once said “all the laziest goof-offs and goldbricks in the newsroom” where he began his career were union officials—and that the unionized New York Times editorial writers are nothing more than [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
I’ve been pounding an unpopular table in several places trying to show people that a $25 Billion investment/loan is critical for the US and makes common sense. I’ve taken a couple of days off from working on the subject. Today, I’ve finally found the opening statements of all three automakers to Congress.
I’m providing them below [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Credit Crisis, Economy, In The News, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
[First, let me say these are my own suggestions to help the situation. These are the changes I wish to see in the automakers. I will be doing more fact based writing, fully resourced, in the next few days. I agree with Rachel Maddow (video) that the attack on the UAW and the automakers could begin a [...]
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Filed under: Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, Foreign Policy, In The News, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Javelin
Although I haven’t been able to post as much recently, I thought I’d mention a good book out there that I don’t believe has recieved the accolades it deserves. It’s Lee Iacocca’s “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”. After leading Chrysler out of bankruptcy and becoming an American icon of what a [...]
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