VoxEU.org - 2/10/2009
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Johannes Van Biesebroeck , 10 February 2009 Following the US bailout of the automotive industry, Canada is now bailing out its own auto firms, lest they risk southward migration. However, this column shows that this most recent action only continues a long history of lavish subsidies for the ...
bloomberg.com - 2/9/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and
Chrysler LLC may have to be forced into bankruptcy...
by the U.S. government to assure repayment of $17.4 billion in federal bailout loans, a course of action the automakers claim would destroy them. U.S. ...
(more)
GM, Chrysler May Get Bankruptcy to Protect U.S. Loans ...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/17/2009
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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com —
As General Motors and Chrysler race to pull
together their restructuring plans ahead of a government-mandated deadline...
on Tuesday, one of the top academic experts on distressed debt is calling for the Obama administration to dispense with niceties and ...
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Altman: A G.M. Bankruptcy to Save Taxpayer Money
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McCain on the Fiscal Stimulus - pgl
A Con Game Too Successful for Its Own Good - Andy Harless
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VoxEU.org: Recent Articles —
Protectionism is steadily mounting. The wide spectrum of new protectionist measures share two features they are WTO-legal and largely unaddressed by the ongoing Doha Round. The current solution adopted by the world s leading countries in the G20 is a re-statement of good intentions not to erect new barriers and to try, yet again, to complete the Doha Round. The former has clearly not worked because seventeen of the G20 countries have imposed restrictions ...
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