…at 10:12 am —- In The News: Face The Nation: VP Biden (including full transcript) Jan. 25, 2009 Obama’s Order Is Likely to Tighten Auto Standards January 25, 2009 NYT…

by cactus Dean Baker on Autoworkers Pay… Plus Helping Banks One flaw in this blog, if you ask me, is that we don’t link to Dean Baker enough. He generally…

…will still be crediting interest on the existing portfolio of bonds and so we can expect some uptick, but a fair estimate is that OAS is kind of on auto-pilot…

Up to date coverage on Auto News can be found at WXYZ.com. Update: Link fixed. Update 2: Union contracts linked in comments, hat tip MG….

…U.S. auto market’s decline has been unprecedented in recent weeks as consumers reel from the collapse of the financial markets and the resulting lack of credit for vehicle financing. The…

…of the domestic auto industry, some U.S. senators and other critics of the Detroit 3 have suggested rampant incompetence and utterly failed business models. “They’re not building the right products,”…

by cactus Bush as a Great Man – The New Meme Let’s say, hypothetically, GW had had a cause these past eight years: reducing auto accident fatalities. Let’s say he…

…of borrowing by small businesses, despite the credit crisis that has slowed other lending such as consumer auto loans and mortgages. Among the 18 publicly traded banks in Massachusetts that…

…its operations. When it (and the rest of the US auto industry) were producing world beating vehicles back before the world was cursed with knowledge of the Bee Gees, it…

…is, he sold his state, and thus sold out the northeast and the north midwest auto/rust belt social progress by bidding a lower labor cost. He fails to see his…