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The Daily Szep -- A Limo From a Private Airstrip

Paul Szep | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

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American Cars

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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We wanted to make a song describing the inseparability of our inflated notion of American glory associated with our automotive industry in the very style of the 70's power-pop songs that helped create the notion itself.

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Friday Talking Points [56] -- Turkeys Everywhere!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...

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Recharge America with Electric Cars

Gavin Newsom | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green

Yesterday, joined by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, I announced a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into the "Electric Vehicle (EV) Capital of the U.S."

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What to Do With Detroit?

The Real News | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

"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

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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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How to Create a Successful Auto Manufacturer Bailout Plan

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

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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

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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

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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Automaker Bailout -- Heads They Win, Tails We Lose

Pam Atherton | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home

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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What to do with Detroit?

Dave Winer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

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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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Bail Out Detroit -- Right Now!

Matthew DeBord | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

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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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

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

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

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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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Don't Attach the Wrong Strings to the Auto Bailout

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

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A tax cut for new cars would encourage Americans to rack up more debt and buy the same gas guzzling cars without assisting the failing economy in a significant way.

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The Case for Bailing out the Big Three

Brian Ross | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

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

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

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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

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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 Lobby Capitol Hill Again Today Amidst Fleeting Chances For Auto Bailout

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats suggested Wednesday that a bill to rescue Detroit's Big Three automakers was stalled and challenged the Bush a...

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Fate of Local Television Lies with the Big 3: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 19, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Automotive, Local Television, Jerry Yang, Espn, Forecast, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Senator Ted Stevens, Hp, Big 3, Shelly Palmer, Bailout, Advertising, College Football, Hewlett Packard, Bcs, Detroit, Media News, Media News

The fate of the local television is inherently tied to the fate of the Big 3. So much so that a bailout for the automotive industry might as well in...

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Big Media: Screw the Auto Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Economy, Working Life, Wages, Economic Crisis, Cars, Ford, Automakers, Labor, Bailout, General Motors, Alan Reuther, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Unions, Auto Industry, Business News

Memo to the media: you want to see the auto industry go down? Fine. But, at least try to give the facts about the cuts, concessions and job losses that workers have taken on in a bid to save their livelihoods.

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Free Fall

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Economic Downturn, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Economy, Paulson, Economic Crisis, Detroit, Financial Crisis, Republican Obstruction, Obama, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

The US has joined Germany and Japan in what is becoming a global recession. The era of big government is over is over. In the crisis, we are, as Richard Nixon once said, "all Keynesians now."

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How Bankruptcy Would Benefit GM

US News And World Report | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Bailout, Automakers, General Motors, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Gm, Detroit, Oil Prices, Business News

Is the Midwest about to tumble into Lake Erie? Sure sounds that way. With General Motors teetering at the edge of insolvency, the company's backers a...

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