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What Would Moses Do?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

We should be selling cars like clothes: big family? You need a big car. Small family? You don't get to drive a Hummer for one person.

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CEO Pay Cuts and Hybrid Road Trips by the Big Three

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Automakers, Brian McClaren, Money, Shane Claiborne, Ceo, Big Three, Compensation, Economy Special Focus, Detroit, Politics News

After being hit hard in the press over taking private jets to ask for tax payers money, there are some promising signs of change from Detroit. The ...

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Bailout? Detroit on His Mind

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Big Three Automakers, Rick Wagon, Alan Mulally, Richard Wagoner, Federal Reserve, Congress, Ford Motor Co, Chrysler, General Motors, Bailout, Robert Nardelli, Big Auto Makers, Car Makers, Financial Crisis, Tarp, Detroit, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News

On their last visit, the auto execs asked Congress for $25 billion in bailout loans. A nice round number. So nice and round that it sounded like it had been plucked from thin air.

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Let Them Eat Hummers

Scott Thill | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Big Three Automakers, Peak Oil, Big Oil, Suv, Detroit, Oil, Bailout Plan, Climate Change, Hummer, Auto Industry, Global Warming, Business News

For years, we have been exporting pollution and excess to the rest of the world, in the form of gas hogs that don't work, suck up cash and destroy the environment.

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What About The Government "Bailout" Of Foreign Automakers?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Automakers, Financial Crisis, Sen. Richard Shelby, Gm, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Automaker Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Video, Politics News

The domestic automakers are struggling under the same burden against their foreign competitors with the subsidies they receive as local businesses do against Wal-Mart.

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GOP Blames Unions for Detroit's Ills

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: GoLeft TV, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Fox News, Big 3, Neil Cavuto, Uaw, Bailout, Economy, Detroit, Automaker Bailout, Video, Automaker, Business News

The failures of the "Big 3" had nothing to do with union workers, as the GOP has been saying. It had to do with the fact that these industries didn't adapt to the times

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Let's Invest in the Real Detroit

Scott Kurashige | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Community Organizing, Race, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Corporations, Activism, Detroit, Business News

Detroit's proud residents take offense at the national media's use of their city's name as a synonym for the American auto industry, an industry transformed by suburbanization and outsourcing.

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Auto Industry Collapse: Who Gains From Detroit's Pain

US News And World Report | Rick Newman | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Who Gains Auto Industry Collapse, Auto Industry, General Motors, Auto Industry Collapse, Car Indsutry, Chrysler, Gm, Detroit, Ford, Business News

You'd think an automotive apocalypse was nigh. In their pleadings to the government, executives from General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler make it sound ...

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Saving the Big 3 for You and Me

Michael Moore | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Wagoner, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, General Motors, Wall Street, Bailout, Alan Mulally, Robert Nardelli, Michael Moore, Economic Crisis, Detroit, The Big 3, Ford, Michael Moore Big 3, Automaker Bailout, Michael Moore Automaker Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Saving the Big 3 for You and Me, Business News

Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine. And it must do all this by not giving them $34 billion.

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Why Detroit Can't Be Trusted to Handle a Bailout

Charles H. Green | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Cars, Auto, Bankruptcy, Trust, Bailout, Incompetence, Auto Bailout, Detroit Bailout, Business News

Both bankruptcy and bailout offer the same dismal prospect: a zombie-like return of the same poor thinking that made Detroit the East Germany of American business.

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Car Sales Tank; Detroit Visits DC, Pt. II

Steve Parker | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, George Bush, Roger and Me, Automotive News, Spring Hill, Wall Street Bailout, Congress, Australian, Saturn, Chrysler, Buick, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Russian Carmaker, Opel GT, $25 Billion Bailout, Honda, Ford, Volkswagen, Malibu Hybrid, Ev1, Bob Lutz, Indian Carmaker, Michael Moore, Saturn Vue, Washington, Tiger Woods, Detroit, Greenmail, Opel Kappa Platform, European Carmakers, Chrysler CEO, Pontiac Solstice Coupe, Bob Nardelli, Uaw, Toyota, Gm, Alan Mulally, AM General, Saturn Sky, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, American Honda, Deal or No Deal, Roger Smith, Gmc, Asian Carmakers, Escape Hybrid, Chinese Carmaker, Pontiac, Corvette, Saab, Wall Street, Detroit Three Loans, Bmw, Subaru, Republican, Hummer Sale, Henry Paulson, Europe, China, Cadillac, Holden, Auto Bailout, Business News

Now that they have our attention, the Detroit Three, in plans submitted to Congress Tuesday, increased their appeals for federal loans from $25 billion to $34 billion.

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Out of Line: Auto Makers

Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

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

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Automakers' Massive Debts May Derail Bailout

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Detroit, Car Industry Bailout, Auto Industry Bailout, Detroit Bailout, Automakers Debt, Car Industry Debt, Business News

DETROIT — They'll park some corporate jets, cut executive pay and serve up concessions from the United Auto Workers, but Ford Motor Co., General...

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Dec. 1, 2008 News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, George W. Bush, Automakers, Obama Administration, Bailout, Paul Brown Obama, Michelle Bachmann, Aig, Gm, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Bill Clinton, Big Three Automakers, Obama Inauguration, Detroit Three, Ford, Susan Rice Us Ambassador to the Un, Chris Matthews, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Political Humor, Obama First 100 Days, Chysler, Hillary Clinton, Auto Industry Bailout, Presidential Thanksgiving Pardon, News Humor, Auto Industry, Politics News

This was the first Thanksgiving ever where the turkey pardoned the President.

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Cyber Monday Follows Robust Black Friday: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 1, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Search, Gm, Super Bowl, Microsoft, National Amusements, Cyber Monday, Sumner Redstone, Facebook, Cbs, Mediabytes, Carl Icahn, Yahoo, Shelly Palmer, Detroit, Media News, Black Friday, Viacom, Midway, Nbc, Media News

Cyber Monday will follow a robust Black Friday. While dim reports on the state of retail are all the rage, if analysts and the media continue to spi...

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KCRW'S Left, Right & Center -- 11.28.08

Huff Radio | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Matt Miller, Paul Krugman, Tony Blankley, Nytimes, KCRW Left Right & Center, Bailout, Arianna Huffington, Obama Cabinet, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Economic Crisis, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Obama Administration, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Obama Appointments, Obama Presidency, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, Financial Crisis, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

As the economy tanks, the radio show's panelists agree with a Paul Krugman column in today's NYTimes, we don't have two months to wait.

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Get Your Head Out of Your Detroit

Joel Shukovsky | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, General Motors, Automaker Bailout, Chrysler, Detroit, Big Three, Gm, Ford, Auto Industry, Business News

President-elect Obama risks making the first big mistake of his administration if he condones a $25 billion bailout with these corporate yahoos still at the wheel.

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Hypocrisy and Arrogance-A Lesson From the Car Industry on Why Health Care Reform Must Not Fail

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cars, Barack Obama, Health, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Automakers, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

The American auto CEOs came hat-in-hand to Washington, DC last week, to bail out their companies, and yet they came without a plan. Instead, they wanted $25 billion.

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Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Congress, Phil Gramm, Hank Paulson, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Senate Banking Committee, Economy, Honda, U.S. Treasury, Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Federal Reserve, $700 Billion Bailout, Vikram S. Pandit, Ford, Charles O. Prince III, Automakers, Nissan, Unemployment, Bailout, Default, George Will, Hyundai, Sen. Jon Kyl, Detroit, Big Three, Financial Crisis, Washington Post, President Bush, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Toyota, Sen. Richard Shelby, Detroit Three, Gm, The Big 3, Chysler, Detroit Automakers, Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Martin Feldstein, Ben Bernanke, Wachovia, Auto Industry, Bankrupt, Citigroup, Business News

Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.

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What Detroit Needs

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business

We all make jokes about how lazy and lobby-driven Congress is, and as sad as the truths behind those jokes are, when times are good, we can afford to have government operate like that.

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Nationalizing Chrysler

Larry Abrams | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business

The "creative destruction" argument conveniently forgets that it wasn't the "free market" that created the American Way of life, but a working class that was paid well enough to consume.

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A Response To Rep. Elijah Cummings

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Business Expense, Loophole, Tax Code, Maximum Wage, Populism, Kucinich, Sherrod Brown, Corporate Tax, Stock Options, Corporate, Business, Wastefulness, Corporate Jet, Pelosi, Business Costs, Big Business, Bailout, Luxury, Taxable, Populist, Ceos, Deductibility, Taxpayer Money, Capital Gains, Reid, Detroit, Elijah Cummings, Auto Companies, Taxes, Greed, Citigroup, Democrat, Business Tax, Congress, Loopholes, Democrats, Income Tax, Profit, Resort, Fat Cat, Tax, Corporations, Chris Weigant, Ceo, Shareholder, Outrage, Business Meeting, Stadium Tax, Mets, Deductible, Stadium Naming, Deduction, Tax Deductible, Cummings, Politics News

The loopholes which allow such corporate excess were not exactly handed down to Moses on tablets -- each and every loophole was approved by Congress.

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Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW

Art Levine | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

You've probably heard claims about those inefficient UAW members supposedly making $70 an hour, including benefits, making unions the prime culprit in the failures of the Big 3 automakers. But it's all a big lie.

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Bailout GM, But Here's What to Demand

David Blume | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

When Sweden mandated that most fuel stations carry alcohol at the pump, GM's Saab division quickly engineered the model 9-5 to be an advanced flexible-fuel vehicle.

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Europe's, China's carmakers ask for help; Waxman wins key Congressional post

Steve Parker | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Chrysler, America, Ford Mustang, Rick Wagoner, Cars, Gas/Electric Hybrid, John Dingell, Ford, Clean Diesel, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Durango Hybrid, Los Angeles Auto Show, Chevy Malibu Hybrid, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Japanese Cars, Washington, Detroit, Mercury Milan Hybrid, Michigan, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, California, Ford Fusion Hybrid, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, Henry Waxman, Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senate, ABC News, Angela Merkel, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, Asian, Opel, European, Business News

In a major win for all consumers, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to put Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key p...

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