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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Ford</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Try Again on&#8230;GM</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/05/lets-try-again-ongm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got to the point where all you have to do is ask, and the billions come flying your way just because &#8220;you&#8217;re too big to fail&#8221;. It&#8217;s not a lesson any of us mere mortals can use, but if you&#8217;re a great big dinosaur of a car company, go right ahead. General Motors we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Definition of Normal by George W. Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s more than a tad ironic that one of the last and most important acts of the outgoing Bush administration will be to attempt an end-run around Republicans in Congress and allow a bridge loan to the US automakers from the the $700 billion set aside all those months ago for the purchase of &#8220;toxic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Simply Cannot Ask The American Taxpayer To Subsidize Failure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/12/we-simply-cannot-ask-the-american-taxpayer-to-subsidize-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study the words in the title, and take a think. Haven&#8217;t we already subsidized failure to the tune of hundred of billions in the last three months? Before Mitch McConnell uttered the phrase above, he made sure to try to separate the bailout of the auto industry from the bailout of the financial industry. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Bailouts Are Big Gifts. Some Bailouts Are Bad Loans.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/08/some-bailouts-are-big-gifts-some-bailouts-are-bad-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s the rise of the Internet that did it, but there are an awful lot of lemmings in the fourth estate these days. Once the zeitgeist gets hold of a word it&#8217;s everywhere fast. That&#8217;s especially true of catch-all terms that lose their meaning the moment anyone begins to dig even a tiny bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford + GM Have Been Making Small Cars For Years. In Europe.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/03/ford-gm-have-been-making-small-cars-for-years-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/03/ford-gm-have-been-making-small-cars-for-years-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognize these? The one on the left is a Ford Ka, the one on the right is GM Vauxhall Corsa. Small, good-looking, low cost, not at all thirsty, and sold in Europe for years. Ford and GM during their latest congressional grovel sessions, said they&#8217;d tool up to produce small cars in the US. Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea That America Won&#8217;t Make Cars. Ridiculous.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/29/the-idea-that-america-wont-make-cars-ridiculous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Auto Industry defines America. There is hardly a major part of recent American history that isn&#8217;t profoundly influenced by cars, socially, economically, and politically. As the nation debates the future of its manufacturing heart and soul, it&#8217;s worth looking back a few decades in the shape of a list of manufacturers and their slogans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Good for America is Good For GM</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/14/whats-good-for-america-is-good-for-gm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/14/whats-good-for-america-is-good-for-gm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks in today&#8217;s NYT suggests that bailing out the Big Three US car companies is a bad idea. While I have some doubts about his ideologically driven &#8220;creative destruction&#8221; thesis, the notion that some US Government Car Czar is going to be able to prevent these monoliths from going over the precipice is absurd. [...]]]></description>
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