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- How GM Bankruptcy Would Affect Customers
- Rick Newman submits: Four generations of Americans have grown up riding in General Motors GM vehicles, and there are at least 30 million on U.S. roads today. Few corporate downfalls could touch as many American consumers as GM’s June 1, 2008 bankruptcy filing. Here’s how it will affect people who...
- External links 2009-06-01
- GM Bankruptcy Watch: Woe to Main Street Bondholders
- Rick Newman submits: One of the saddest stories emerging from the GM bankruptcy drama is the plight of “Main Street” bondholders. Most of the investors holding $27 billion in GM debt are big banks and institutional firms, but apparently Mom and Pop-type investors hold about $7 billion in GM bonds....
- External links 2009-05-28
- GM Bankruptcy: Who Would Lose the Most
- Rick Newman submits: Dealers will close. Jobs will disappear. Customers may flee. If General Motors GM declares bankruptcy in the coming days, as seems likely, millions of GM workers and other Americans will suffer the collateral damage. So will the investors who own GM stock. In fact, GM investors have...
- External links 2009-05-19
- Chrysler: Five Reasons Why It Still Might Not Survive
- Rick Newman submits: Give President Obama credit for his boldest bailout plan yet. Unlike some of the open-ended bank bailouts, his Chrysler plan makes hard choices, sets public standards and deadlines, and puts some burden on stakeholders besides the U.S. government. By forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy, Obama has committed to...
- External links 2009-04-30
- GM: An Inside Look
- Rick Newman submits: At General Motors GM, they call it “the 60 days.” That's the window of time President Obama has given America’s biggest automaker to chart a bold new future - or declare bankruptcy. Obama has set tough conditions that GM must meet by the end of...
- External links 2009-04-12
- GM and Chrysler: What's Next
- Rick Newman submits: So the government has ordered bailout-seekers General Motors GM and Chrysler back to the drawing board - and sent GM's former CEO Rick Wagoner packing. The broad message is clear: The Obama administration - and a huge chunk of voters - are fed up with failing companies...
- External links 2009-04-01
- Five Reasons to Say Yes to American Cars
- Rick Newman submits: The government hath spoken–and declared it safe to buy an American-made car. By vowing to honor the warranties for cars built by General Motors GM and Chrysler, the Obama administration has removed a bit of the stigma associated with the two troubled automakers. Both...
- External links 2009-04-01
- Five Reasons Not to Buy American Cars
- Rick Newman submits: Buy a [[GM]] or Chrysler vehicle, and the warranty will backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Is that a good enough reason to buy domestic? Probably not. With GM and Chrysler begging for billions in government aid to survive–and Ford...
- External links 2009-04-01
- Auto Bailout Provides New Deals for Car Buyers
- Rick Newman submits: With the auto bailout kicking into higher gear, General Motors GM and Chrysler aren't the only ones getting some help. Relief is flowing to car buyers, too. The government has finally clarified what GM and Chrysler must do to get billions of dollars more in...
- External links 2009-03-31
- Detroit Bailout: What Car Buyers Need to Think About
- Rick Newman submits: In order to bail out General Motors GM and Chrysler, the government has decided to throw a bone to car buyers, too. Executives at the troubled Detroit automakers have long pointed out that nobody wants to buy a car from a company that might not...
- External links 2009-03-31
- Ousting Rick Wagoner Won't Solve GM's Problems
- Rick Newman submits: By most accounts, Rick Wagoner was never really the problem. It’s self-evident that he presided over the demise of General Motors GM since taking over as CEO in 2000. The company has lost money for four years straight, and is only alive now thanks to...
- External links 2009-03-29
- How GM Can Get Its Groove Back
- Rick Newman submits: With General Motors GM in bankruptcy, an army of lawyers will battle over the best way to dispose of the assets of the “old GM.” But an even more important job is keeping the “new GM”—the smaller, healthier company expected to emerge from bankruptcy—in business. ...
- External links 2009-06-01
- GM Eulogies - Let's Move On
- Rick Newman submits: End of an era. Fallen titan. Epic decline. Death of an American icon. If you haven’t gotten the message by now, let me spell it out: The General Motors GM bankruptcy is a national buzzkill that officially signals the end of the glory days. The...
- External links 2009-06-02
- How Auto Bailout Is Punishing Ford
- Rick Newman submits: Ford Motor Co.’s F latest earnings report doesn’t mention General Motors or Chrysler, its crosstown rivals. But those competitors have a lot to do with Ford’s surprising $1 billion profit in the third quarter. Ford attributes its better-than-expected performance—its first quarterly profit since 2005—to aggressive cost-cutting,...
- External links 2009-11-02
- What GM Can Learn from Toyota
- Rick Newman submits: Andy Grove, one of the founders of Intel INTC, is famous for saying that "only the paranoid survive." The long-term success of his company suggests he's right. These days, Toyota TM is looking like one of the most paranoid companies on the planet. It's the...
- External links 2009-10-03
- Chevy Volt: How It Stacks Up
- Rick Newman submits: General Motors has delivered some momentous news this year. There was that inconvenient bankruptcy filing on June 1, and the taxpayer bailout that now totals $51 billion. To get our minds off that, GM recently announced that the Chevrolet Volt, which is now basically a taxpayer-funded science...
- External links 2009-08-22
- Cash for Clunkers - Is It Really a Disaster?
- Rick Newman submits: People opposed to healthcare reform have a new mantra: If the government can’t run the “cash for clunkers” program, do you really want them managing your healthcare? Catchy. Timely. And probably as misleading as “death panels” and “euthanasia.” by Rick Newman
- External links 2009-08-22
- Cash for Clunkers Snarl - How to Avoid It
- Rick Newman submits: When car dealers start doing business with the federal government, whaddya expect? Perfect harmony? Of course not. Several weeks into the "cash for clunkers" program it turns out that delivering a couple of billion dollars worth of rebates to hundreds of thousands of car buyers...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Cash for Clunkers: Four Downsides
- Rick Newman submits: Eureka! Stimulus works! The first $1 billion allocated to "cash for clunkers" rebates apparently helped boost car sales by more than 250,000 vehicles, bringing some much-needed cheer to depressed auto showrooms. So Congress added $2 billion to the program, which by extrapolation could increase sales by more...
- External links 2009-08-06
- C4C: Finally, A Stimulus Plan That Stimulates - Will It Last?
- Rick Newman submits: Heh heh heh. Those jokers in the Senate really have a sense of humor. In case the savage recession has disarmed your funny bone, here's the joke: Congress has come up with $700 billion to rescue rich bankers on Wall Street and nearly $800 billion...
- External links 2009-08-04
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