It's tough to justify spending $6 million to $8 million to sponsor a golf tournament when thousands of people are losing their jobs.
New York Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
Six weeks into his tenure as President Obama's compensation czar, Kenneth Feinberg has his sights set on pay packages he thinks are too rich for compa...
Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
What image should the bailed-out General Motors project to the world? AutoBlog passes along a report from Automotive News (subscription required) th...
AP | Ken Thomas, Associated Press Writer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration urged Congress Tuesday not to intervene in the closings of hundreds of General Motors and Chrysler dealers...
Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
For automakers across the globe, small is the new big. Gone are the days of gas guzzling SUVs and huge payloads. Car sales, driving habits and consu...
Gerald Sindell | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
I'm offering it for free: my brilliant idea for GM to salvage its reputation.
New York Post | John Crudele | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
NOW that its wallet is fat with billions in taxpayer money, General Motors is reconsidering moving its New York offices out of the ultra-expensive bui...
David G. Crane | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
It didn't have to be this way. Had California accounted for its promises, billions would not have to be taken from discretionary programs, which is just the first wave of a massive tsunami: our underfunding is simply staggering.
treehugger.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
That's right, forget all about that smoggy past--the new, green GM is here to stay. It looks like the auto giant is about to undergo some serious rebr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
Apparently, the powerful General Motors company has the luxury of limiting the demographic groups to which they must appeal, because after posting sev...
AP | TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business
DETROIT — General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars...
Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
UPDATE: This promotion has been removed from YouTube... In a new ad, GM's putting the muscle back in muscle car. (Apologies for the strained metaphor...
AP | DAN STRUMPF | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Automotive parts supplier Lear Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday after receiving support from lenders and bondholders ...
Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Shai Agassi's goal to take whole countries and turn them into electric vehicle only countries just might happen.
AP | Posted 08.05.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- A bankruptcy judge has ruled that General Motors Corp. can sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, potentially clearing the way...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.
nytimes.com | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
General Motors is using its huge pension fund in a way it never intended. It had planned -- and put money aside -- for a steady march of retirees o...
Jon Chattman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.
washingtonpost.com | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
If a new General Motors emerges from bankruptcy as planned, U.S. financial aid for the company will expand to nearly $50 billion, but neither the gove...
Washington Post | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
If a new General Motors emerges from bankruptcy as planned, U.S. financial aid for the company will expand to nearly $50 billion, but neither the gove...
bloomberg.com | Alan Ohnsman and Kae Inoue | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. may offer to supply a version of its Prius hybrid car to General Motors Corp. during a meeting between the c...
Woody Brock | Posted 07.28.2009 | New York
the solution to today's economic crisis lies in the realization that what is really at stake is the root political question of how democracy can save itself from itself.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.
Annie Roboff | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
Like the American auto industry, our airlines were the first and the best. But now it's other countries and the Richard Bransons of the world that are leading the way in delivering a great product.
Stephanie Wei | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business