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...Even if just one of the Detroit Three - and GM is the most likely, as Ford is in better shape and Chrysler is much smaller - spiraled into a free-fall bankruptcy, the systemic effects, at least initially, would be huge. The whole industry would not be able to build cars in the U.S., because of the lack of parts. "Unlike the airlines or steel, when you look at the automobile industry and the fact that the whole supplier base is connected - to Ford, Chrysler, Toyota - it will have a ripple effect on the entire industry," says Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale...
...Detroit ends up, is it worth the price to get there? Put another way, does GM deserve to be bailed out or left at the mercy of the market and almost certain death? "The University of Chicago training in me says the market should prevail," says Schrager. "But the Chrysler bailout was a success, and, gosh, I'd love to save it." That sentiment is not shared by everyone, and it goes to the heart of the central economic debate facing the country - between hard-nosed capitalists, who believe the market should decide, and public-policy types who view...
...industrial giant General Electric could receive as much as an $18 billion investment. What's more, a number of members of Congress are pushing for TARP funds to be used to aid troubled automakers. President-elect Barack Obama has said that he favors lending federal financial assistance to Chrysler, Ford and GM. And, like AIG, a number of large insurance companies may soon ask for a piece of the remaining bailout fund as well...
...Remember what eight years of Republican rule has wrought: missing weapons of mass destruction, the promises we'd be greeted as liberators, Jessica Lynch, torture, the disintegration of Afghanistan. Also: Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost...
Across the board, auto executives see their plight linked to the credit crisis. "The customers need to have a clear mind that they can get financing," says Jim Press, vice chairman at Chrysler, where sales dropped 35% last month...