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What Detroit Needs

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

We all make jokes about how lazy and lobby-driven Congress is, and as sad as the truths behind those jokes are, when times are good, we can afford to have government operate like that.

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Nationalizing Chrysler

Larry Abrams | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business

The "creative destruction" argument conveniently forgets that it wasn't the "free market" that created the American Way of life, but a working class that was paid well enough to consume.

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Changing the Whole Auto Industry, Seriously?

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Entrenched power and mindset within Detroit leadership make it really tough for the auto industry, as a whole, to innovate.

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Memo to Automakers Wagoner, Mulally & Nardelli: Fire Your PR People

Pam Atherton | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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How these three CEO's have acted is a classic teachable moment. They've practically written the curriculum for the class on how to alienate the American public by their actions.

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Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW

Art Levine | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

You've probably heard claims about those inefficient UAW members supposedly making $70 an hour, including benefits, making unions the prime culprit in the failures of the Big 3 automakers. But it's all a big lie.

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Bailout GM, But Here's What to Demand

David Blume | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business

When Sweden mandated that most fuel stations carry alcohol at the pump, GM's Saab division quickly engineered the model 9-5 to be an advanced flexible-fuel vehicle.

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American Cars

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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We wanted to make a song describing the inseparability of our inflated notion of American glory associated with our automotive industry in the very style of the 70's power-pop songs that helped create the notion itself.

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What to Do With Detroit?

The Real News | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

"Governments around the world have always been proactive in growing and nurturing industries like the auto industry. In North America for the last couple of decades, we haven't done that."

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A Kid from Car Country

James Moore | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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Once this grim place was the most alluring in America. The engine of the world was built here in Michigan. And it is hard to believe we are simply going to let it run out of gas.

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How to Create a Successful Auto Manufacturer Bailout Plan

Grant Cardone | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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I was recently asked to participate on a forum with the LA Business Journal whereby six CEO's weigh in with their opinions of the Government Bail Out of the Automotive Companies.

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Do It For Me, Matchbox Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, the public.

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The Hits Just Keep Coming

Lance Simmens | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

We have been rudderless for some time, and it shows. The call to public service is now more urgent than at any time in our nation's history.

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Will We Let Detroit Go and the Recession Deepen Out of Disgust Over Financial Bailout?

David Paul | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

We have watched one bailout unfold, and we have not been impressed. We heeded the Wise Men, and now we feel violated. But how do we now hold failing auto companies to a higher standard?

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Planes, Pains And Automobiles

Dwayne Raymond | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

These overpaid, egomaniacal "players" should heed Romney's counsel and start playing sensibly, like honorable men. And their first ante in this new game should be their own prompt resignation.

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Congress Scraps a Good Car with Bad Steering

Dan Treul | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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No one - this Michigan resident included - is out to defend recent management of Ford, GM and Chrysler as "efficient." It doesn't take an industry analyst to determine the status quo broken.

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The Case for Bailing out the Big Three

Brian Ross | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Apparently there is one thing that liberal and neo-con think-tanks can agree upon: Let Ford, General Motors, and Chrylser fail.

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Obama Team Primed for a "Green Stimulus" to the Economy

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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I spoke with Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a top economic adviser on Obama's transition team who headed Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, about the need for a "green stimulus."

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Chinese Want To Buy the Big 3 Automakers

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

All the Shock Doctrine fanatics cheering to drive the the Big 3 into bankruptcy "restructuring," like Mitt Romney, might want to think about the implications of this.

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Should the Government Bail Out the Big Three U.S. Automakers? HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In

Huffington Post | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Huffington Post contributors weigh in on whether Congress should bail out the Big Three Detroit automakers. Keep checking back as the debate continues.

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The Peculiar Politics of Bailing Out Detroit

Carl Pope | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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The management of GM doesn't deserve to be bailed out, and it's not clear to me that a bailout would work -- certainly not as long as the company continues its "change as slowly as possible" pace.

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Give GM Real Help, Not Guilt-Driven Charity

Bart Motes | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

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The government can use the bailout money to set up a new universal healthcare and pension plan, releasing the industry of this massive obligation and giving them the opportunity to be competitive and a strong force in the marketplace.

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How To Save A Major Automobile Company

Neil Young | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

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