Auto Dealers

10 Shady American Sectors

Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Contractors, Auto Dealers, General Contractors, Business News, Roofing Contractors, Americas Shadiest Sectors, Used-Car-Dealers, Slidepollajax, Consumer Complaints, Business News

Worried that contractor you're hiring to re-do your kitchen floor might be shady? You're not alone. The Better Business Bureau received the most i...

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Buying A Car Made Quick And Easy In 6 Steps

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Dealers, Kelly Blue Book, Edmunds.com, cars.com, Car Buying, Carsdirect, Autobytel, Grant Cardone, Car Buying Made Easy, Automotive Sales Training Autotrader, Business News

Below is a step-by-step plan of how to get a great deal on your next car without going through a long, drawn-out and painful process. Because of the ...

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Would You Buy a Used Party from These People?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, Dick Armey, Auto Dealers, Campaign Finance, Newt Gingrich, Democrats, Obama Administration, Midterm Elections, 2010 Midterm Elections, Republicans, Chamber of Commerce, Tea Party Express, Senate, Anonymous Donors, Comedy News

"Hey there! Welcome to GOP AutoWorld -- you look like a couple of folks who are ready for a change! Dump the old clunker for something new!" "Are you gonna keep shouting?"

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Auto Dealers, Community Banks Dodge Consumer Oversight

AP | STEPHEN MANNING and MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Automobile Dealers Association, Financial Reform Bill, Auto Dealers, Community Banks, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Overhaul, Congresional Oversight Panel, Local Banks, Auto Industry, Business News

WASHINGTON — The financial overhaul bill awaiting final action in the Senate includes a new regulator whose aim is to make sure mortgages, credi...

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Civil Rights Groups Issue Warning Against Hazardous Auto Dealer Amendment

Janis Bowdler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cars, Banking Reform, Interest Rates, The Recession, Capitol Hill, The Financial Fix, Auto Dealers, Fiscal Policy, Economy, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Regulation, Personal Finance, Auto Industry, Transportation, Business News

Capitol Hill has been teeming with auto dealers as the debate heats up on the proposed "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" (S. 3217)....

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Setting the Record Straight: Why Auto Dealers Do Not Need Carve-Outs

Janis Bowdler | Posted 05.25.2011

The auto dealers are urging senators to avoid over-regulating their dealerships, burdening them with redundant laws, and ultimately limiting consumers' credit options. These concerns are unfounded.

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How The Financial Reform Bill Affects Your Everyday Life (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Dealers, Bank Reform, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Finreg, Credit Cards, Investor Protection, Mortgages, Wall Street, Financial Reform Rules, Slidepollajax, Consumer Protection, Debit Cards, The Fiancial Fix, Business News

NEW YORK (By Rachel Beck, AP) - The financial overhaul is about more than exotic derivatives and complex risk assessments. It will change how you inte...

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Why Your Car Dealer May be a New-Fashioned Sexist

Catherine Lutz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer Culture, Women, Marketing, Auto Dealers, Retail Sales, Auto Industry, Car Culture, Sexism, Auto Bailout, Rec, Recession, Business News

Our interviews with owners, buyers and salespeople show that men, though on the whole more knowledgeable about cars -- tend to be less rational about their car purchases than are women.

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Auto Dealers Beat Obama, Win Exemption From Consumer Protection Agency

By JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Dealers, Auto Dealer Exemption, Auto Dealers Exemption, Obama Auto Dealers, Financial Reform, Auto Dealer Compromise, Auto Dealers Compromise, Autodealers, Financial Reform Conference, Financial Regulation, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the end, the political clout of 18,000 auto dealers scattered nationwide was too much even for President Barack Obama. House an...

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Help Ensure House and Senate Managers 'Aren't in a Good Mood' About Shady Auto Deals

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Loan Exemption, Holly Petraeus, Auto Dealers, David Petraeus, Barney Frank, Financial Reform, Auto Loan, Chris Dodd, Financial Regulation, Politics News

Auto dealer lending practices are a disgrace. If bank auto loans are regulated but car dealer loans aren't, unscrupulous bankers will use dealers as minions to make an end run around consumer protection.

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Big Banks Make Desperate Last Ditch Effort to Weaken Wall Street Reform

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conference Committee, Auto Dealers, Derivatives, Consumer Financial Protection, Wall Street Reform, Breaking News Entertainment, Big Wall Street Banks, Too Big to Fail, The Financial Fix, Politics News

Big Bank lobbyists would love to stick a shiv in important provisions of the financial bill as quietly as possible. Unfortunately for them, the Democratic leadership has done everything it can to make quiet back room dealing difficult.

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No E-ZPass for Auto Dealers

Catherine Lutz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Scott Brown, Auto Dealers, Car Loans, Financial Reform, Home Equity Loans, Car Industry, Auto Industry, Jack Reed, Business News

Auto dealers may get a pass on financial reform despite outstanding car loans totaling $850 billion, greater than national credit card debt and second only to home mortgages.

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Traded-In: These "Used" Senators Sold Out The Troops For Auto Dealer Cash

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nada, Harry Reid, Auto Dealers, National Auto Dealers Association, Barbara Boxer, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Sam Brownback, Politics News

If you have a yellow "Support Our Troops" sticker on your car -- or even if you don't -- you should know the name of the Senators who just sold out our troops, their families, and our military readiness for easy cash offered by auto dealers.

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Wall Street Power Play: Bankers In Bizarre Showdown With Auto Dealers

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd Bill, Auto Dealers, Sam Brown Back, The Financial Fix, Banks, Financial Reform Bill, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Reform, Car Dealers, Financial Regulation, Merkley-Levin, Business News

Wall Street has found itself battling auto dealers in a last-ditch effort to block an amendment opposed by big banks from coming to the Senate floor. ...

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Brownback Defends Predatory Lenders In Misleading Letter To Pentagon

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Raj-Date, Predatory Lending, Auto Dealers, The Financial Fix, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Sam Brownback, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, Video, Business News

In his attempt to protect the right of predatory lenders to fleece America's troops and their families, Republican Senator Sam Brownback wrote a lette...

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More "Special Loopholes"? The Pentagon Versus the Car Dealers

Gary Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Pentagon, Car Dealers, Financial Reform, Auto Dealers, Sam Brownback, Politics News

As early as Thursday, the Senate will consider an amendment by Sam Brownback of Kansas that would exempt auto dealers from a proposed new consumer financial protection bureau.

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Brownback Amendment, Auto Dealers and What it Means to You

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brownback Amendment, Nada, Auto Dealers, Consumer Lending, Finance Reform, Business News

Call your Senator today and tell them to vote for the Brownback Amendment Bill so that consumers have choices of where to get their financing when buy...

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Latino Families' Fight for Banking Reform

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Weak Oversight, Auto Dealers, Job Loss, NCLR's Wealth-Building Policy Project, Nclr, Damaging Payday Loans, Cycles of Debt, Deceptive Lending Practices, Declaw Legislation, Wall Street Bailouts, Latino Families, Accountable, Janis Bowdler, Great Recession, Enforcement, Foreclosure, Housing Counselors, Mortgage Brokers, Small-Dollar Lenders, Greed, High-Rate Credit Cards, Oversight, Devastating Consequences, Innovative Financial Products, Limited Accountability, Economic Turmoil, Subprime Loans, Toxic Mortgages, Protections, Deception, Access to Credit, Product Vendors, Positive Innovations, Banking Reform, Politics News

One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.

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Consumer Advocates Push For Auto Industry Watchdog In CFPA Legislation

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Finance Industry Watchdog, Auto Dealers, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Regulatory Reform, Auto Industry, Financial Regulation, Business News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Consumer advocates argued Wednesday that Congress should include auto dealers under the oversight of a proposed finance industry...

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Cash For Clunkers: Deadline Extended For Dealers To Submit Deals

AP | KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, National Automobile Dealers Association, Auto Dealers, Transportation Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department is assuring auto dealers they will get time to submit their pending Cash for Clunkers deals, as conti...

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Feds To Give Green Job Aid To Ailing Auto Towns

AP | JAMES HANNAH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automakers, Auto Dealers, Green Jobs, Cars, Green Economy, Green News

DAYTON, Ohio — The federal government will give car-manufacturing communities $50 million in grants to train laid-off workers for jobs in the en...

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Car Dealership Closures Compound Newspaper Woes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Auto Dealers, Newspaper Ads, Dealership Closings, Car Dealers, Journalism, Car Dealerships, Media News

Newspapers just can't catch a break. Even the decisions last week by General Motors and Chrysler to close nearly 2,000 auto dealerships will dispropor...

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Auto Dealers Critical to U.S. Economy

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Credits, Auto Dealers, Bailout, Grant Cardone, Recession, Finances, Nada, Auto Business, Obama Stimulus, Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Economic Stimulus, Business News

While the manufacturers have been given most, if not, all the attention, the reality is if your local auto dealers don't survive and prosper the manufacturers will have no need to build product.

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Prime Borrowers Penalized While the Sub-Prime are Subsidized

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America Business, Subprime Mortgages, Auto Dealers, Grocery Stores, Banks, Bad Service, Failure, Grant Cardone, Customer Service, Auto Manufacturers, Business News

Everywhere I look today the chant of our culture is "reward, support, subsidize, and bail out the losers and penalize those the winners and the ethical!

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