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Sheila Barr voices concern about lack of serious homeowner help, only institutional help.
08/27/2008
FDIC's Sheila Barr voices concern for a lack of serious homeowner help and an incomprehensible reluctance to do anything serious for homeowners in Congress or the Bush Administration even as Barr, Paulson and Bernanke offered no choice to CEO's of leading banks at the meeting last week in Paulson's offices but to sign term sheets for accepting $125 billion from the government. Another $125 billion goes to smaller banks. And a unspecified amount goes to buy troubled assets under TARP, and money to buy commercial paper, and other institutional help. Still nothing on a large comprehensive basis to help homeowners in difficulty which is at the root of this crisis according to Feldstein, Hubbard, Bair.
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FDIC Chief Raps Rescue for Helping Banks Over Homeowners
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2008
Agency’s Head Expects Banking’s Crisis to WorsenNew York Times 08/27/2008
Gorbachev, Medvedev or Putin, and whats Russia's real thinking and priorities?
08/20/2008
Putin clearly has something personal that grates him about Sahkavili and this has been injected into already evident Russian sore feelings since the 1990's, so its hard to make out where Russia's real priorotoes lie with Europe or without. It still appears that after Georgia they are still firmly with economic integration with Europe.
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West Baffled by 2 Heads for Russian Government
New York Times 08/21/2008
Russia Never Wanted a WarNew York Times 08/20/2008
The shift to small cars
07/22/2008
GM's Cruze, Ford's Focus and Fiesta mark the shift to smaller cars for the Detroit automakers.
Linked Articles
GM plans $500M for 45-mpg small car
Detroit News 08/22/2008
Ford to Make Broader Bet on Small CarsNew York Times 07/22/2008
Huge shift in car mix in favor of smaller cars as USA buyers finally make the shift and fast.
06/19/2008
Small cars sales move up quickly from 12.5% to 20% of vehicles sold. Market is running at 12.5 million vehicles in May 2008. The small car share will rise much higher as supplies increase, currently small cars sell quickly and are in short supply especially for Hona Fit and Civic cars and the Ford Focus.
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The Smaller the Better, Automakers Are Finding
New York Times 06/20/2008
GM Puts Off Truck, SUV Redesigns In New FocusWall Street Journal 06/19/2008
Differing timelines for Bill Ford and Mullaly at Ford and Wagoner at GM in their shift to smaller cars.
06/04/2008
GM was late in the shift to smaller cars than Ford even as the shift was taking place. Both companies though remained mired in a decades long stagnation in fuel efficency even as companies like Honda moved forward, and as the gap with the Europeans and the Japanese in the technology and skills of making small cars widened.
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G.M. Closing 4 Plants in Shift From Trucks Toward Cars
New York Times 06/04/2008
Bill Ford on Tipping Points and Thinking SmallBusinessWeek 07/31/2008
Board meetings at GM and the how the culture and style of management stalled decisions on fuel efficiency and small car development.
05/15/2008
The evolution of the old management styles and attitudes as Ford brought in outside management and Bill Ford took a new tack, and at GM where old management plodded on inexorably in the old way. Which is quite different from what Alfred Sloan had advocated in his memoirs when he insisted on discussion and debate on critical decisions in board meetings for them to be worthwhile.
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BusinessWeek 05/15/2008
Bill Ford on Tipping Points and Thinking SmallBusinessWeek 07/31/2008
Greenspan and his philosophy that let him take such an ambitious experiment in unrestrained markets.
04/08/2008
Grennspan took huge risks in his ambitious experiment with the American economy of a philosophy that simply said allow markets to operate unrestrained and trust in humans benevolent intentions and enlightened self interest. Goodman and Ip document the details. Did he believe that there was something miraculous that would prevent things from imploding, something inherently sacred about an idea of markets, when plain common sense like Buffets said that the arithmetic did not add up and in the end thats all that counts common sense.
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Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy
New York Times 10/09/2008
His Legacy Tarnished, Greenspan Goes on DefensiveWall Street Journal 04/08/2008
Ford Motor Company and the shift in message to "Quality, Green, Safe and Smart," from "American" and being "powerful"
03/18/2008
Ford is showing originality and focussing on safety and innovation as one of its advertising themes in a "Ford, Drive One" campaign which will be done with dealers and after listening to dealers.
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Wall Street Journal 03/18/2008
Ford Displays a Wreck to Score Safety PointsNew York Times 03/18/2008
Rapid expansion of Starbucks 2000-2008
01/07/2008
Starbucks with 10,000 store locations in the USA and 1600 planned new stores for 2008 finally realizes that this breakneck expansion was destroying the original starbucks experience and vision as its reduced to becoming more like a fast food place.
Linked Articles
Schultz Takes Over to Try to Perk Up Starbucks
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2008
McDonald's Takes On A Weakened StarbucksWall Street Journal 01/07/2008
Ford Motor Company and the shift in message to "Quality, Green, Safe and Smart" from "American" or being "powerful" (1)
01/06/2008
Farley brings fresh thinking to marketing and advertising at Ford to get themes like safety and green into buyers minds.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2008
Ford's EcoBoost Engine Excites MarketerNew York Times 01/06/2008
Ford's expansion in Asian markets 2007-2008
10/10/2007
Ford's investments across Asia, in China, India and Thailand and plans for lower cost cars for the hundreds of millions of customers who can afford a really low priced car in the $2500- $7500 price range.
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Ford to Build Car Plant in Thailand
New York Times 10/10/2007
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine PlantNew York Times 01/08/2008
Ford's aggressive effort at marketing safety.
09/04/2007
How the display of a crashed Taurus at the 2008 New York Auto Show is an ongoing effort like the Swap My Ride Campaign to get car buyers who defected to foreign makes to take a look at Ford.
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Drivers Size Up Fords (Unknowingly) in New Campaign
New York Times 09/04/2007
Ford Displays a Wreck to Score Safety PointsNew York Times 03/18/2008
Friedman of NYT compared Detroit carmakers to "crack dealers."
06/02/2006
With their gasoline rebates and gasoline purchase paid credit cards to buyers of large SUV's, GM and Ford were increasing America's dangerous dependence on imported oil. Contrst that with the vigorous approach of Hyundai to fuel efficiency. And go fast forward to 2009 when Hyundai sees August 2009 sales 47% higher than August 2008 sales, Hyundai being the only large car company to increase sales by end of 2009 in the American market.
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Detroit's No Good, Very Bad May
BusinessWeek 06/02/2006
Hyundai Aims for Efficiency LeadWall Street Journal 09/03/2008
The Cruze and Ford's Fiesta and Focus mark the shift to small cars for Detroit
08/22/2008
Linked Articles
For $75 million, Michigan Truck will soon roll out cars
Detroit News 08/27/2008
GM plans $500M for 45-mpg small carDetroit News 08/22/2008
Bill Ford's committment to smaller cars and the ongoing shift across the spectrum with the Cruze at GM
07/31/2008
Bill Ford's interview with Bartiromo of CNBC and Business Week in which he outlines his struggle at Ford to focus managers on small cars and the new team of Ford, Mullaly and Farley that is focussing on small cars.
Linked Articles
Bill Ford on Tipping Points and Thinking Small
BusinessWeek 07/31/2008
GM plans $500M for 45-mpg small carDetroit News 08/22/2008
Sales of the Honda Civic, Toyota Prius,Ford Focus and the Honda Fit , all smaller cars are doing well
06/20/2008
Even so Toyota will not go ahead with making the Prius at the new plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi, is a sign of the severity of the economic downturn that is shaping up for 2009 and 2010.
Linked Articles
The Smaller the Better, Automakers Are Finding
New York Times 06/20/2008
Toyota delays new Prius plantDetroit News 12/16/2008
The Honda Civic becomes the best selling brand marking the shift to smaller cars.
06/04/2008
The Japanese carmakers pass the Detroit carmakers in sales with smaller models like the Honda Civic leading the way. Bill Ford talks about his and Mullaly's committment to a shift to smaller cars.
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In a First, Asian Autos Outsold Detroit’s in May
New York Times 06/04/2008
Bill Ford on Tipping Points and Thinking SmallBusinessWeek 07/31/2008
How all carmakers and Detroit automakers in particular missed what was happening in the economy and the market with dire results.
05/20/2008
Even as late as May 22, 2008 Ford pared its outlook to 14-15 million cars as reported by Jeff Bennett in the WSJ. That puts the situation in October 2008, with a 30-40% drop in sales year over year only 5 months away.
Linked Articles
Car Makers' Boom Years Now Look Like a Bubble
Wall Street Journal 05/20/2008
Ford Motor Pares OutlookWall Street Journal 05/22/2008
The strategy of passing on food price increases in emerging markets of Unilever, P&G (Procter & Gamble), Danone and Nestle
04/30/2008
Linked Articles
Grain Companies' Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts
Wall Street Journal 04/30/2008
Unilever Sales Rise as Its Prices ClimbWall Street Journal 11/04/2011
ACA- Insuring the CDO's
04/03/2008
The insurance itself was not insurance but a chance to use different accounting rules to take the issuance of collateralized debt obligations to new heights. ACA was an outfit by the river issuing flood insurance. It had an A rating and was supposed to insure AAA securities.
Linked Articles
BusinessWeek 04/03/2008
Building WonderlandNew York Times 04/06/2008
Ford's Fiesta for the American market.
03/13/2008
Ford Fiesta to be launched in the USA in 2011. It will get 40mpg on the highway.
Linked Articles
Customizers ready for launch of Ford Fiesta
Detroit News 12/31/2009
One World, One Car, One NameBusinessWeek 03/13/2008
Ford's marketing challenges in 2008
01/06/2008
Ford shows originality in the display of a crashed Taurus at the March 2008 New York Auto Show, the display designed to show car buyers how the safety features protect occupants and make them look at Ford cars.
Linked Articles
Ford's EcoBoost Engine Excites Marketer
New York Times 01/06/2008
Ford Displays a Wreck to Score Safety PointsNew York Times 03/18/2008
Ford in the Indian market.
12/13/2007
Ford to invest $500 million to make small cars in India and turn it into a regional manufacturing hub with sales goal of 200,000 cars for 2010.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/13/2007
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine PlantNew York Times 01/08/2008
The dangers of single hit products like Motorola Razr phone and the Ford F-150 truck and Explorer without a full line of new products to transition to
09/14/2007
How Motorola's experience with single hit products like the Razr cell phone compares with Ford's single hits like the F-150 truck and the Ford Explorer. Why this got both into trouble and the lack of new product at both companies during a critical period as competitors moved ahead.
Linked Articles
Motorola to Spin Off Handset Unit, As Icahn Waits
Wall Street Journal 02/01/2008
Detroit Auto Makers Try Some New TricksWall Street Journal 09/14/2007
Failure to invest in tech startups dims hopes for a shift away from a commodity based Russian economy- 2005-2015
10/08/2006
Linked Articles
Russia's Tech Startup Scene Retreats Amid Ukraine Conflict
Wall Street Journal 09/09/2014
Germany Drafts Policy for Europe to Strengthen Russian TiesNew York Times 10/08/2006
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