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- Despite Crisis, Economic Opportunities Remain
- Rick Newman submits: Many Americans are hunkering down, but even a grinding recession presents chances to get ahead—and maybe even earn your fortune. The very disruptions causing pain for many workers—spending cutbacks, layoffs, and corporate bankruptcies—often create openings for others. To figure out where to look, I asked William Sahlman...
- External links 2009-05-21
- Why the Government Should Stop All the Bailout Secrecy
- Rick Newman submits: You don’t need to know the details. That’s been the paternalistic approach taken by Treasury and Federal Reserve officials since last fall, as they’ve tried one maneuver after another to salvage the financial system and fix the economy. The just-trust-us strategy has backfired, badly. Now...
- External links 2009-03-24
- U.S. Economy Not Yet in Recovery Mode
- Rick Newman submits: The recession is dividing America into economists, and everybody else. The economists are the ones probing for "green shoots" (the most overused cliché of 2009) in all those economic reports that make the headlines. For the most part, what they're seeing is bad news that's less bad...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Government Stimulus Programs: Where They Stand
- Rick Newman submits: A lot of economic indicators go hot and cold these days, but here's one that's been consistently getting better: The government has been steadily withdrawing its extraordinary support for the ravaged economy. It might not seem that way. Lender GMAC is lined up for another...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Housing Rebound: Why It Could Take 20 Years
- Rick Newman submits: You know where the housing market has been. You may not want to know where it's headed. There are tentative signs the depressed housing market may finally be close to bottoming out. That might sound like good news, but hitting bottom doesn't mean an upward...
- External links 2009-08-12
- 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
- Financial Reform: An Obama Growth Industry
- Rick Newman submits: It wasn't part of the stimulus package, but President Obama's financial reform could turn out to rank among Washington's biggest job-creation programs. One contributing factor in the financial meltdown has been a patchwork regulatory system with wide gaps exploited by companies like [[AIG]], Countrywide Financial,...
- External links 2009-06-30
- Five Lessons from AIG and Merrill Bonuses
- Rick Newman submits: Score one for common sense. American taxpayers may not have much of a say over which banks get bailout money or what a fair price for toxic derivatives may be, but basic logic is finally winning out when it comes to lavish bonuses. by Rick...
- External links 2009-03-20
- Will Chrysler's 'Adjustment' Last Forever?
- Rick Newman submits: Chrysler calls it an "adjustment." After the last shift on December 19, all of its factories will close for an extended holiday vacation. "Impacted employees will not return to work any sooner than Monday, Jan. 19, 2009," the automaker said in a statement. If I were...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Why I Need a Government Bailout
- Rick Newman submits: To: Henry Paulson, Bailout Decider, U.S. Treasury CC: Ben Bernanke, Bailout Buddha, Federal Reserve by Rick Newman
- External links 2008-12-17
- The Big Three's Bailout Plan Report Card
- Rick Newman submits:Now that's more like it. After a disastrous performance before Congress in November, execs from General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler have finally offered some meat to members of Congress wondering if the automakers deserve $34 billion in federal aid. All three automakers have submitted plans to the...
- External links 2008-12-04
- How Not to Bail Out Detroit
- Rick Newman submits: Commence Kabuki. With the Detroit automakers in the late stages of supplication, a predictable ritual will now take place. The CEOs of [[GM]], Ford F, and Chrysler will do as instructed: travel like common men from Detroit to Washington and present the government with new-and-improved restructuring...
- External links 2008-12-02
- Corporate Bankruptcies: More Bad News Around the Corner?
- Rick Newman submits: If you've been saving your cash for fire sales at bankrupt retailers, don't blow it all at Circuit City CC. Many other companies are likely to end up in even worse shape over the next year. So far in 2008, there have been a few name-brand...
- External links 2008-11-11
- What Big Auto Wants from Obama
- Rick Newman submits: Car buffs and political junkies are two separate breeds, with little overlap between the two. But Detroit has never seemed closer to Washington than at this year’s North American International Auto Show. Most of the reasons are obvious: The federal government now owns a portion of...
- External links 2009-01-14
- Five Missing Pieces to the Stimulus Plan
- Rick Newman submits: Stimulate me. Please. I’m feeling gloomy. And I’m not sure that a Washington plan to fill a bunch of potholes, build some shiny new schools, or construct windmill farms on the Great Plains is going to bounce me out of it. by Rick Newman
- External links 2009-01-29
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