Tag: Bailouts

Bailout 2.0

Filed in National by on February 10, 2009 8 Comments

I didn’t get a chance to see Geithner’s press conference talking about the plan to stabilize the banks. But I understand that what was presented was an outline of a plan, with details to be provided as they work them out.  (Now I see that they unveiled a new website today — still under construction […]

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Question…

Filed in National by on February 4, 2009 34 Comments

Much has been made of Obama’s proposal to cap executive pay.  So here’s my question:  Do taxpayers have a right to say how their money is spent? I keep thinking that if you came to me asking to borrow money because you couldn’t pay your mortgage, and I lend you the money, and then you spend […]

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BoA Bailout Funds Update

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 15, 2009 1 Comment

The WSJ reports that BoA is close to getting its new bailout funding: Reeling from previously undisclosed losses from its Merrill Lynch & Co. acquisition, Bank of America Corp. is expected to receive an emergency capital injection of $15 billion from the Treasury, which will also backstop as much as $120 billion of assets at […]

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Bailouts by the Numbers

Filed in National by on December 26, 2008 27 Comments
Bailouts by the Numbers

Quite so:

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Ford Says UAW Not to Blame

Filed in National by on December 17, 2008 25 Comments

(via John Cole). Ford Chairman Bill Ford was on Larry King last night and had this to say: KING: What about the UAW in all of this? FORD: Well, the UAW obviously has been our partner through all of this. Have they made mistakes and have we made mistakes? Of course. The UAW has come […]

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Letter to Senator Shelby

Filed in National by on December 8, 2008 6 Comments

Last week, Senator Shelby from Alabama spoke out about government subsidies for manufacturing in the US.  He is definitely against and thinks that subsidizing manufacturing is French. The CEO from Compuware writes to the Senator to remind him of the subsidies his state provided for Mercedes Benz: I am sure you were adamantly against the […]

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The Myth of $70 Auto Workers

Filed in National by on November 22, 2008 33 Comments

While everyone is debating the Big 3 Bailout, you’ve undoubtedly heard something along the lines that current Big 3 autoworkers are making about $70.00/ hour fully burdened and the automakers in the south are making considerably less. It turns out that $70 figure is wrong: The average GM assembly-line worker makes about $28 per hour […]

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