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If they're publicly asking for $4 million, I'll bet we could get it for $3 million. Putting the plane itself up as collateral we could probably finance, say 85% of it. That's less than half a million.
footnoted.org | Michelle Leder | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
What a year it has been [for Vonage] under Lefar. When he joined the company, Vonage stock was trading at around $1.50 and a little over a year later ...
cityfile.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Donald Trump has suffered some financial setbacks over the past year. But have things gotten so bad that he'll soon be forced to to fly commercial? Or...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have cri...
ABC News | Scott Mayerowitz | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
As hordes of Americans watched their retirement savings disappear and their home values plunge after the economic crisis started in September, many co...
gadling.com | By Scott Carmichael | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
Holy crap. That is about the only response I have to this Airbus A380 being developed for Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Of course, the prince has ...
Ariston Anderson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Sure, you can praise Oprah for not being a hypocrite. She's rich and she's proud of it. It's kind of tacky to flaunt your riches in a recession, but whatever.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
JPMorgan Chase, beneficiary of $25 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, plans to spend $138 million for swank corporate jets and a new hangar, ABC New...
Don McNay | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
If the people on Wall Street knew that no one would ever be there to bail them out, ever again, they would be less inclined to gamble with instruments they don't really understand.
Stanton Peele | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business
Jack Strong: You can't fit 200 guests, strippers, a four-star kitchen, and a ten-foot-high ice sculpture on a helicopter.
New York Post | Page Six | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
HENRY Samueli - the billionaire philanthropist whose offer to pay $12.2 million for perpetrating a stock-option scam at his Broadcom Corp., to which h...
Don McNay | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
I don't know how a Citigroup collector is going to convince an unemployed worker that he has a moral obligation to pay up. Thus, I am expecting huge credit card defaults in 2009.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
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.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green
All of these five cartoonists arguably give a negative jab to the green movement -- but does that makes them less green?
ABC News | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/christopher-hitchens-batt_n_147598.html | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business
Ford and General Motors will sell their fleet of corporate luxury jets, the two struggling auto companies announced today. The move comes two weeks a...
Politico | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business
When the Big Three automakers come back to Washington for hearings later this week on the proposed auto bailout, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will be makin...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business
The CEOs of the nation's biggest three automakers flew to Washington DC yesterday to make their case before congress that the auto industry is despera...
ABC News | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto i...
Diddy.com, AP | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green
SEE THE VIDEO BELOW ***UPDATE*** Check the response from Saudi bloggers at the bottom *** We were remiss in not posting this highly informational ...
Patt Morrison | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
The Air Force funded private jet-like touches for planes -- sofas, beds, leather swivel chairs, flat-screen monitors with stereo -- at a price of $16.2 million, all from the War on Terror budget.
Forbes | Gady A. Epstein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
Interested in attending the Olympics but didn't plan ahead? You may be in luck--especially if you're a corporate big shot with a private jet and more ...
Robert Weissman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
Soaring private jet use reflects skyrocketing wealth inequality, in the United States and globally. Also, private jet use is subsidized as well by commercial air traffic.
The Guardian | Karen McVeigh | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green
It's the ultimate dilemma for the seriously rich with a conscience - how to enjoy private jet travel without the guilt about carbon footprints. But no...
Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
While most of the world is starting to pinch pennies and monitor their savings in light of the current (or looming, depending on who you ask) recessio...
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Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business