Car Companies

An American Heartbreak

Norman Lear | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business


Norman Lear

What's going on with our car companies breaks the heart of this member of the Greatest Generation. The American motor car played such a significant part in our "American Dream."

GM Bankruptcy Would Be Most Complicated In History

New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business


It is not just lawyers who will be busy handling a G.M. bankruptcy filing, which would be perhaps the biggest and most-watched in legal history. Beca...

The Chrysler Bankruptcy May Not Be As Smooth As Hoped

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business


Ian Welsh

The debt holders will go to the judge and argue that they deserve to own much more Chrysler or that it should be broken up and that their claims take precedence. I don't know if they'll succeed.

GM In "Intense" Preparations For Bankruptcy: Report

Reuters | Chelsea Emery and Soyoung Kim | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business


General Motors Corp is in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reute...

Ford completes tender offers, cuts $10B in debt

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business


DETROIT — Shares of Ford Motor Co. soared 16 percent Monday after the company said it completed tender offers that will reduce its debt by 38 pe...

GM Speeds Up Bankruptcy Plans

Bloomberg | Jeff Green | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business


General Motors Corp. is speeding up preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing even as directors seek deeper savings this week to avoid that outcom...

Car Companies Take Bailout Money And Sue Government To Prevent Stricter Fuel-Efficiency Standards

New Yorker | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green


It might be hard to find a better example of biting the hand that feeds you. American automakers, the subject of much attention and beneficiaries of a...

Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


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.

At the Pump: Down with Gas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business


Rick Horowitz

Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.