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...that's not insanity, I don't know what is," says Toronto analyst Dennis DesRosiers with DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, referring to the ransomlike price GM demanded for its promise to maintain a share of its car and truck production north of Detroit. "This deal does more to get Obama reelected than it does to save jobs in Canada...
...offer as much as it has to GM Canada comes in the face of strong public opposition to the bailout, even in dyed-in-the-wool auto towns like Oshawa and Windsor. "Across Canada opposition to bailing out the car companies is something like 4 to 1," says analyst DesRosiers, who has more than 30 years of auto-industry experience. For $9 billion, he adds, the Canadian government could have asked any of the solvent Japanese or European automakers to build five new car plants in Ontario...
...This has the makings of a really bad movie.' TERESITA SCHAFFER, an analyst at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the prospect of Zalmay Khalilzad, George W. Bush's former ambassador to Afghanistan, being awarded a key post in the Afghan government...
That he is also now North Korea's Kim-in-waiting has become apparent in the past month, analysts believe. In late April, he was named to the country's all-powerful National Defense Commission, a sign to North Korea analysts that he indeed is being groomed as his father's successor. There has been widespread speculation that uncertainty about a possible transition in the North is part of the reason for Pyongyang's recent, dramatic acts of defiance: a long-range rocket launch in early April, and last week's underground nuclear test and multiple missile launches. North Korea...
...weeks. Venezuela's Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said in Vienna that his country could not afford to invest in major new oil exploration unless prices rise further. "We need a level of at least $70 [a barrel] to recuperate investment," he said on Thursday. Muhammad-Ali Zainy, senior energy analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, says oil demand could increase quickly once the recession ends, especially as China has begun to build up its strategic oil reserves. "We think the price is going to go up gradually," says Zainy...