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Another U.S. Car Division Bites the Dust: Mercury

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saab, Oldsmobile, Hot Rod, Saturn, Alan Mulally, Hirohata Mercury, Bob Hirohata, Ford, Pontiac, Edsel, Bill Ford, Sam Barris, Henry Ford, Lincoln, Elana Ford, Mercury, George Barris, Hummer, Business News
Steve Parker

A lesson other car-makers have learned the hard way is that buyers want a car that makes a definite statement, which knows its place in the market. A perpetual question mark like Mercury has absolutely no chance of survival.

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Cash for Clunkers

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Marianne Moore, Edsel, Ford Motor Company, Danny Heitman, Business News
Gershon Hepner

It seems that we've done just about everything to get the American auto industry out of the doldrums. We've forced bankruptcies. We've exchanged cash for clunkers. But have we tried poetry?

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America's Cuba Policy is the "Edsel" of the US Foreign Policy Portfolio

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Clemons, Luis Alberto Moreno, Latin America, Summit of the Americas, US Foreign Policy, Julia Sweig, Senator Mel Martinez, Jeffrey Davidow, David Rothkopf, US-Cuba Policy, Barack Obama, Edsel, Obama Cuba, 100 Days, Obama 100 Days, World News
Steve Clemons

Obama's point guy on the upcoming Summit of the Americas offered me the neocon-friendly, ideologically vapid answer to my question on Cuba. Does Obama read the brief on Cuba?

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