Eric Florack on March 12th, 2011

I’ve had an interesting week traveling around in the truck. Some of it, I ended up using someone else’s truck since mine was under repair. Lower miles as a result mean lower income, I suppose, but that goes with the

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2010

The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors .  They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2010

I notice that the most recent gamble of our tax money involves the Chevy Volt…

Keep in mind, this is the president who told us that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were an unvarnished success. What a lot of people

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davidl on July 30th, 2010

Or maybe  Vurkey?  From Edward Niedermeyer, New York Times:

GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would

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It looks like Dumbo knows almost as much about running a car company as he does managing an economy, Bloomberg:

Motor Co. beat General Motors Co. in monthly sales in February for the first time since 1998, and GM

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2009

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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davidl on June 7th, 2009

Represenatatives Steny Hoyer,  Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei have sent a letter to the one:

Dear President Obama:

We are writing to express our concerns about General Motors’ and Chrysler’s decision to close profitable automobile dealerships across the country,

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

ramble-truckingThis is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

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Eric Florack on March 29th, 2009

Mike Allen and Josh Gerstien at The Politico:

The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.

On Monday, President Barack Obama is to

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