hoovers.com - 11/13/2008
—
Competitive Landscape for Automobile Manufacture The major drivers of US demand for autos are employment and interest rates. The profitability of individual companies depends on manufacturing efficiency, product quality, and effective marketing.... Read more about General Motors's competition ...
time.com - 11/13/2008
—
time.com —
For months, General Motors had been telling everyone
who would listen that bankruptcy was not an option....
It had a $30 billion cash pile and plans to restructure the company as the economy rebounded and 2007 U.S. auto sales topped 16 million units. ...
(more)
Is General Motors Worth Saving?
clusterstock.com - 11/11/2008
—
clusterstock.com —
ObamaPresident.png President Elect Obama, you're about to get
your first big economic test: Cave to the anguished...
cries of the crippled US car industry and waste tens of billions of taxpayer dollars postponing the inevitable. OR Just let the crippled ...
(more)
Don't Do It, Obama. Don't Save Ford (F) And General ...
redstate.com - 11/18/2008
—
redstate.com —
America's First National Automaker The most urgent piece
of economic news and policy over the next several...
weeks will be the fate of the General Motors Corporation. It will take precedence over the general policy response to the worsening ...
(more)
What Lies Ahead For General Motors
Comments
Blog Reactions
Where's The Journalism Bailout?
Ross Douthat —
... for the casino industry? Ridiculous! Right? But why right? More importantly, what about the journalism industry? What about us - my friends and co-workers, and friends of friends and co-workers of co-workers, who've spent the last five years watching our business slowly circle the drain? Doesn't America need the New York Times as much at it needs the Chevy Cobalt? Isn't the Star-Ledger as important as the GMC Savana? Sure, GM employs roughly five times as many people as all all of America's newsrooms combined - but that just ...
The trouble with bailouts
Megan McArdle —
... there's our nation's most vital business of all: More importantly, what about the journalism industry? What about us -
my friends and co-workers, and friends of friends and co-workers of
co-workers, who've spent the last five years watching our business
slowly circle the drain? Doesn't America need the New York Times as much at it needs the Chevy Cobalt? Isn't the Star-Ledger as important as the GMC Savana? Sure, GM employs roughly five times as many people as all all of America's newsrooms combined - but that just ...
Related Content
The Company You Keep
reason.com 10/27/2008 — Over at The Corner , anti-immigration campaigner (both legal and illegal, according to the subtitle of his book) Mark Krikorian is horrified to learn that Sarah Palin isn't sufficiently hostile to the idea of "amnesty." Nothing surprising ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
