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Here’s your Medicare Part D

…it. Either way, it’s not there to generate money from money. $26,549 – $5989 (property tax) – $3922 (utilities) – $3038 (Insurance) – $5230 (auto expenses) = $8370 to live…

…jump in auto sales to 9.9 million will generate a rise in real retail sales. But the preliminary reports from retailers are not encouraging. Correction: the originally reported increase in…

Corn ethanol

…government moves the ethanol mandate to 15%, it will be the dawn of a new golden age for auto mechanics’ income. One last thought: Most individuals who have had to…

Real Retail Sales

By Spencer Just to put things in perspective. Note, that January auto sales and retailers reports imply another down month….

WHITE HOUSE Communications:

…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…

Dean says:

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…

Social Security Monthly Balances: Nov update

…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…

WXYZ

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….

GM press release

…today a significant reduction of planned production for the first quarter of 2009 due to the ongoing and severe drop in industry sales, which were down 36 percent in November…