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• The US Buys Sergio Marchionne a Present

  For those of you curious about what Chrysler is worth, the answer came today: It’s worthless. Fiat gets 35% of Chrysler for $0.00. Which, if you do the math, means Chrysler itself is worth at most, $.01–in which case, Fiat’s stake is nothing more than a rounding error. —– You ever see a couch [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 9:28pm EST
  by americanroad

• Is There a Difference?

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  Today, Barron’s went on record with the following assertion: Unlike the banks, Detroit has a problem that isn’t just a short-term liquidity squeeze. Rather, it is a business model whose flaws have been made starkly evident by the terrible industrywide sales slump, the weak economy and the credit squeeze. Is that so? Conventional [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 12:51am EST
  by americanroad

• The Other Side of the Corporate Jet Story

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  Because there’s been a lot of noise about how Alan Mulally flew in a corporate jet to Washington D.C., I thought I’d supplement that with a bit of news about how Ford uses its corporate jets. White Plains, New York, January 10, 2003 - Corporate Angel Network, a national charity organization [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2008, 12:21am EST
  by americanroad

• Does GM Want To Go Bankrupt?

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  Perhaps not as far fetched an idea as it sounds. There is a certain fear that a GM bankruptcy would devastate the Great Lakes states and would dramatically increase the challenges facing Ford and Chrysler. Still, I can’t help but wonder if there is a faction at GM that is playing “what [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2008, 2:07am EST
  by americanroad

• The Idea of GM - Part II

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  Can GM survive? How? If we grant that there is a serious cost to society if GM fails, then we are faced with the ‘moral hazard’ problem that is also affecting the financial industry. One of the fundamental concerns with the banking bailout is that it could eliminate the prospect of moral [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2008, 2:19am EST
  by americanroad

• The Idea of GM - Part I

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  With an auto industry bailout seemingly imminent, given that GM has announced it may run out of money before the year ends, it’s worth taking a look at why bailouts are undertaken. Bailouts are seldom undertaken to save a company. They are undertaken to avoid disrupting the economy through widespread job loss. Picture [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2008, 1:49am EST
  by americanroad

• Welcome to Tomorrow

  With the Senate’s passage of strict new fuel economy standards, it looks like gas-electric hybrids are about to become the next big thing. I All those battery manufacturers in those countries with much more accommodating environmental laws must be licking their chops. We are about to see a boom in battery manufacturing [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2007, 2:51am EDT
  by americanroad

• The Management Myth

  “This company desperately needs focus in terms of preserving its capital and concentrating its management resources,” said John Casesa, managing partner of Casesa Strategic Advisors LLC in New York. “It currently has too many mouths to feed.” “Ford has got some huge problems on their own, really huge facing survival really [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 6:18pm EDT
  by americanroad

• Apparently, this is what he was hired for

  Well, latest news from the AP says Ford is renaming the Five Hundred. It’s going to be called “Taurus”. I’m glad to see that Mulally has resisted the urge to put his personal tastes into action at Ford Motor. I’m glad to see that Mulally is committed to consistency, and to [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2007, 10:44am EST
  by americanroad