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...when the outgoing Bush Administration threw it a short-term loan and told the company that it had until March 31 to come up with a plan for its long-term survival. It did - but its strategy was premised on projections that car sales would begin to pick up this year after last year's dismal industry performance, in which sales sank 18%, to 13.2 million units. But the pickup hasn't happened yet, and analysts see the industry's production "run rate" at or below 9 million units. (Read about Detroit's efforts to reinvent itself...
...climbed and credit has been choked off. (Showroom traffic is increasing, notes Summit Auto's Buscher; it's financing that continues to lag.) But that also means that we'll be readier to buy when credit starts to loosen. Even if this recession lingers longer than expected, results will pick up substantially in 2011. Analyst Luedeman predicts that sales in North America will bottom out at 8.4 million units this year (others say slightly higher), then jump to 10.2 million in 2010, a 21% improvement. And by 2012 the industry will be in a full-fledged boomlet, at 13.8 million...
Obama has a community organizer's appreciation for human motivation, and his rhetoric often sounds as if it's straight out of a behavioral textbook. He has also read Nudge, which inspired him to pick his friend Sunstein - best known as a constitutional scholar - to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the obscure but influential corner of the Office of Management and Budget where federal regulations are reviewed and rewritten. "Cass is one of the people in the Administration he knows best," says Thaler, the founder of behavioral economics and co-author of Nudge. "He knew what...
...bewildering, which is why it's so easy to stumble into hidden fees and balloon payments tucked in the fine print of our mortgages. Even Ph.D.s can get confused by our society's paperwork; Thaler and Sunstein tell a story in Nudge about struggling to help a health economist pick a prescription-drug plan for her parents...
...comments were filled with economic jargon but pregnant with meaning. "If there's going to be renewed growth, it can't just be the United States as the engine. Everybody is going to have to pick up the pace," Obama continued. He went on to say that the world would have to shift away from the situation where other nations are "only exporting and never importing" to a "balance in how we approach these issues...