Comments on: The History of US Government Corporate Bailouts

By: guest

guest — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:14:45 +0000

The information regarding Conrail is inaccurate. The government spent an additional 19.7 billion to keep Conrail operating before it began to turn a profit. http://www.propublica.org/special/bailout-aftermaths#

By: Fin/Inv » Blog Archive » In Case You Missed Them - Some Links of Interest (8/11/09)

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:09:59 +0000

[...] the flash by moving to options (Zero Hedge).A visual of the history of bailouts, 1970-2008 edition (Financial Infographics, HT Barry Ritholtz).Oil prices have risen lately, causing Goldman to warn that as the economy rebounds, crude oil [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:18:05 +0000

Back to BJ:

Don’t forget that most “imports” (Honda, Toyota, Nissan) sold here are now made here. Since 2005, non-domestic automobile manufacturers have produced more vehicles in the U.S. than GM/Ford/Chrysler.

By: BJ

BJ — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:52:25 +0000

Never underestimate the power of denial. The big 3 are in doodoo for 1 simple reason – they make crappy small/mid-sized cars. They are in bed with the oil industry (and gov’t – nice love triangle there). Imports are far far ahead in quality, reliability, durability and gas mileage. Until they step it up, People will keep buying imports. They don’t deserve to make cars.

By: BD

BD — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:59:38 +0000

The first time around, Chrysler’s bailout was pure mismanagement.

This time it’s more the government’s fault than the auto company’s. The federal government mandated they make cars that nobody wants. Sorry, people don’t want little tin cans to ride around in, but the government added these regulations to get people out of their evil SUV’s. Naturally, nobody bought them.

Then we all act shocked and outraged when the auto companies think they deserve a bail out. I mean, the only reason they were building these cars that nobody wanted was because the government said they had to.

The root of the problems, by and large, is the government. You can make a very similar case for the housing bust.

But how do we fix it? MORE government intervention, of course!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:32:42 +0000

Chrysler, GM, they need to be on there, for one day we will ask….”Whom shall we get to make our tanks, our APC’s, our Humvees? Mercedes? Honda? Toyota?”

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:39:11 +0000

Man, Chrysler is on there twice! I think the auto industry is doing a lot of things wrong, and you don’t deserve a bailout multiple times. That’s bogus.