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	<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; cars</title>
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		<title>My sad Saturn farewell</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/02/my-sad-saturn-farewell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cheapskate Blog's Brad Tuttle writes that "the first new car I could truly call my own was a bare bones Saturn SL." My first new car was a Saturn, too. Being no cheapskate, I splurged on an SL2. It was a 1992, just the second model year. I was living in Montgomery, Alabama, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6987&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise! GM and Chrysler won&#039;t be able to pay us back</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/09/09/surprise-gm-and-chrysler-wont-be-able-to-pay-us-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big shocker! General Motors and Chrysler probably won't be able to pay back all those loans we've extended them! From the just-released September report of the Congressional Oversight Panel assigned with keeping an eye on the Troubled Asset Relief Program:
Although taxpayers may recover some portion of their investment in Chrysler and GM, it is unlikely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6779&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM wants to be an eBay Power Seller</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/08/10/gm-wants-to-be-an-ebay-power-seller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors, after prematurely announcing the news back in July (before it actually had a deal with eBay), is really truly going to start selling cars via eBay on Tuesday. You can tell it's for real this time because the press release announcing the program is available on the eBay website (pdf!) as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6487&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life on the other side of cash for clunkers</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/08/05/life-on-the-other-side-of-cash-for-clunkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Zeit Online (clunky translation mine):
In Germany the government-promoted auto boom is gradually coming to an end. Thanks to cash for clunkers (Abwrackprämie) the number of new-car sales in July was, at 340,000 vehicles, still 30% higher than the previous year's level, reported the Federal Motor Vehicle Office (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt) Tuesday in Flensburg. In June, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6399&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Blinder still likes cash for clunkers, mostly</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/08/04/alan-blinder-still-likes-cash-for-clunkers-mostly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my previous post on the economics of cash for clunkers, I tried to get Alan Blinder's take—since the whole danged thing was his idea—but didn't hear back from him on time. Now I've just gotten this e-mail from him:
I always thought that cash for clunkers would be an effective stimulus, but it seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6393&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (confused) economics of cash for clunkers</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/08/04/the-confused-economics-of-cash-for-clunkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all began a year ago with a suggestion from a prominent economist. Wrote Princeton University's Alan Blinder in the July 27, 2008 New York Times:
Economists and members of Congress are now on the prowl for new ways to stimulate spending in our dreary economy. Here's my humble suggestion: “Cash for Clunkers,” the best stimulus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6328&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the new GM escape the curse of the old?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/07/10/will-the-new-gm-escape-the-curse-of-the-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been two main theories of why things went so wrong at General Motors. One is that the company is run by a bunch of ingrown retreads with no sense of where the automotive business was headed. The other is that the company's management has been so burdened by commitments (to pensions, to retiree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=6093&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler: Bankruptcy wins</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/04/30/chrysler-bankruptcy-wins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 11 bankruptcy is one of the greatest glories of American capitalism. It evolved organically during the financial crises of the late 1880s, was replaced with a more punitive code in the 1930s, and then was resurrected and codified in the late 1970s. Chapter 11 allows companies that got in over their heads to seek [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=5352&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe Obama&#039;s tough line on Detroit won&#039;t soften</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/04/01/maybe-obamas-tough-line-on-detroit-wont-soften/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a reasonably pleasant half hour earlier today taping this week's edition of On the Line, "The International Public Affairs Talk Show," which will air starting tomorrow night on your local Voice of America station. (What, you don't have a local Voice of America station? Try online.) The subject matter was the Chrysler/GM takeover/bailout/bankruptcy/whatever, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=4936&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Wagoner too &#039;fundamentally decent&#039; for the job ahead at GM?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/03/29/was-wagoner-too-fundamentally-decent-for-the-job-ahead-at-gm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Rick Wagoner is out at General Motors, at the request of the Obama administration. I've never known quite to make of the guy—most of GM's many troubles aren't his doing at all, but he had eight years to resolve them and came nowhere close to succeeding. I went to Alex Taylor's November 25 Fortune [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=4888&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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