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How to Fix the U.S. Auto Industry

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Mustang, Lincoln, Jay-Z, Chevrolet, Toyota, Gm, Beyonce, Ford, Angelina Jolie, u.s. Auto Industry, Cadillac, Carrie Underwood, Big Three, Chrysler, Prius, General Motors, Hybrid Vehicles, Britany Spears, Leonardo Dicaprio, Detroit, Business News
Andy Ostroy

Disappearing ingenuity, poor design and dreadful marketing is to blame for Detroit's troubles, not the poor schlep who toils on the assembly-line for eight hours a day.

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On a Clear Day, What Will Be Left to See?

Charlie Cray | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Big Three, Automaker Bailout, Chrysler, Bailout, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Business News
Charlie Cray

How is it that we seem to be using taxpayer money to rescue the U.S. auto companies, rather than restoring the U.S. auto industry?

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Big Three Meet With White House Task Force

wsj.com | MATTHEW DOLAN, NEIL KING JR. And JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Three, Obama Task Force, White House Auto Task Force, Big Three Meet Auto Task Force, Auto Bailout, Business News

Members of President Barack Obama's auto task force met with top procurement executives from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC thi...

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Detroit Auto Show: Big Three Prove They're Still in The Game

Nick Aziz | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Gm, Big Three, General Motors, Detroit Three, Ford, Detroit Three Loans, Detroit Auto Show, Chrysler, Alan Mulally, Ford Taurus, Dodge Circuit EV, Electric Cars, Telsa Roadster, Cadillac Converj, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Nick Aziz

Yes, there are management problems. Yes, the wage gap must be eliminated. But when it's all said and done, the product is what will make or break the Detroit Three.

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From Electric Cars To Speedy Roadsters, The Newest Concept Cars (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post/AP | Marcus Baram | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Show, Big Three, Auto Bailout, North American International Auto Show, Slideshow, New Concept Cars, Business News

The Big Three automakers - GM, Chrysler, Ford - and their foreign counterparts tried to show that they're committed to environmentally-friendly, fashi...

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Economic Stimulus: Biodiesels as Giveaways Could Build Community, Consumer Awareness

Josh Tickell | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Congress, Big 3, Big Three Automakers, Biofuels, Future of Fuel, Big Three, Environment, Biodiesel Fuel, Future Fuel, The Big 3, Green Living, Green Energy, Biodiesel, Home News
Josh Tickell

How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many!

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

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Chris Weigant

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

Read More: National Review, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. John Cornyn, $700 Billion Bailout, Honda, Diet, Big Three, Toyota Republicans, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Aig, Auto Bailout, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, Sen. Thad Cochran, Nissan, President Bush, Great Depression, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Germany, Washington Mutual, Gm, Sen. Richard Shelby, United Autoworkers, Ford, Fannie Mae, Toyota, Sen. Jim DeMint, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Sen. Bob Corker, House of Councillors, Japan, Economic Policy Institute, Chrysler, Bmw, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, South Korea, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Johnny Isakson, New York Times, Bear Stearns, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Uaw, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

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Sam Stein

Obama Commends Bush For Auto Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Republicans, Auto Bailout, Obama Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Big Three, Bush Bailout, Bailout Bush, Obama Big Three, Politics News

In a statement sent out just now from his communications shop, President-elect Barack Obama announced his agreement with the Bush administration's dec...

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Ray LaHood at Transportation, What is Obama Thinking?

Josh Nelson | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Energy, Politics, Obama's Cabinet, Ray Lahood, Mass Transportation, Transportation, Green News, Renewable Energy, Big Three, Trains, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, Green, Lahood Dot, Ray Lahood Department of Transportation, Lahood Obama, Politics News
Josh Nelson

A Republican with a consistently bad record on environmental issues has just been nominated to run the Department of Transportation.

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead

Michael Moore | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Middle Class, Detroit, Big Three, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Politics News
Michael Moore

The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

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This Sucks, but I'm Rooting Against the Auto Bailout...

Mark Nickolas | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Car Company Bailout, Toyota Prius, Hybrid Cars, Big Three, Detroit, Cars, Unions, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

I really hate it when I find myself siding with the Republican Party on policy but I think this auto industry bailout is a piss-poor idea and I find myself rooting for the GOP to kill it.

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Automakers: Apology Accepted

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Market, Leadership, Greed, Leaders, Trust, Gm, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Backed Securities, Ford, Green, Compensation, Congress, Employee, Apology, Business, Corporations, Transparency, Automakers, Chrysler, Bailout, Stock, Sin, Big Three, Economy Special Focus, Detroit, Auto Bailout, Financial Crisis, Business News
Jim Wallis

If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.

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Big Three Automakers to Give Every American a Free Car

Billy Kimball | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Three, Chrysler, Auto Bailout, General Motors, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Christopher Dodd, Free Car, Richard Shelby, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Politics News
Billy Kimball

The plan, dubbed the "Unprecedented Winter Sales Event" in internal company documents, was reportedly the brainchild of a marketing team at Chrysler, the most beleaguered of the Big Three.

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The Big Three vs. the NFL: Who's Tougher?

Barry Levinson | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Three, Commercials, Nfl, Ford, Ford F-150, Auto Industry, Football Commercials, Business News
Barry Levinson

I am beginning to lose my mind when I watch NFL football on Sunday. It's not the game that troubles me; it's the truck commercials.

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Big 3 Failure Would Cost Taxpayers Billions, Too

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Ford, Big Three, Financial Crisis, Cars, Big 3, Auto Bailout Cost, Big 3 Failure, Business News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. auto industry's problems will cost taxpayers plenty whether or not the government helps Detroit. Just walking away and le...

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Deal Reached In Principle On $15B Auto Bailout

HuffPost/WP/AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Big Three, Automakers, Cars, Automaker Crisis, Financial Crisis, Congress, Economy, Business News

UPDATE 12/09 at 9:58PM: The Associated Press reports that a deal on a $15 billion auto bailout has been reached in principle: Congressional aides an...

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Inefficient Hybrids Driven By Big Three CEOs Made The Wrong Point

Green Inc. | Libby Rosenthal | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Big Three, Cars, Hybrid Cars, Green Cars, Green News

Robert Nardelli of Chrysler drove his company's Aspen Hybrid S.U.V., which gets 22 miles per gallon on the highway and 20 in the city. Ford's Alan Mul...

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9/11 Fund Overseer Kenneth Feinberg Floated As New Auto 'Czar'

Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Three, Automakers, Chrysler, Cars, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Green Cars, Ford, Kenneth Feinberg Auto Czar, Kenneth Feinberg Auto Bailout, Kenneth Feinberg 9/11 Commission, Kenneth Feinberg, Business News

UPDATE 3:30pm EST: A spokeswoman for Feinberg tells Huffington Post that he has not been approached about the position. "He doesn't know anything abo...

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Save the Jeep; Save the Nation

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Washington Mutual, Gm, Economy, United Auto Workers, Sen. Harry Reed, Ford, Mitt Romney, Fannie Mae, Credit Default Swaps, Congress, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Big Three, Aig, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, New York Museum of Modern Art, Jeep, Uaw, World War II, Capitol, Senate Majority Leader, Willys-Overland, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.

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Why Just Bail Out Automakers? How About Some Buy In?

Edward Humes | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Three, Chrysler, General Motors, Andy Frank, James Worden, Electric Car, Ford, Environment, Carmakers, Edward Humes, Eco Barons, Zero Emissions Vehicle, Greenhouse Gas, Green News
Edward Humes

Congress is understandably skeptical about the Big Three's plea for a multi-billion-dollar bailout of their failing auto businesses. These are, after ...

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Bush Acknowledges Recession For The First Time

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Job Losses, Unemployment, White House, Job Cuts, George W. Bush, Big Three, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged for the first time Friday that the U.S. economy is in a recession and worried aloud ...

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Reading The Pictures: Shaming Detroit (While Wall St. Walks)

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Photos, Abc, Shaming Detroit, Shame, Auto Testimony, Auto Industry, Capitol Hill, Gm, Economy, Washington, News Video, Richard Wagoner, Photojournalism, Factory, Big Three, Politics, Chrysler, Honchos, Video, Auto Execs, Robert Nardelli, GM Factory, Auto Industry Hearings, Auto Bailout, News, Morality Play, Lordstown, Contrite, Detroit Bailout, Auto CEO's, Detroit, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-12-05-shaw_auto3.jpgWhat was completely predictable, if thoroughly heavy-handed, was the way the visual media shaped "The Return Of The Auto Executives" into a classic morality play.

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NASCAR Car of Yesterday: Emblematic of the Detroit Problem

Dawn Teo | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, U.S. Economy, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Big 3 Bailout, United Auto Workers, Economic Crisis, Nascar, Big Three, Recession, Auto Industry Bailout, Obama's Economic Team, U.S. Economic Crisis, Auto Industry, Business News
Dawn Teo

Instead of taking advantage of cutting edge technology, American automakers and NASCAR tap into obsolete technology that even car consumers aren't buying anymore.

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