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moneyning.com - 8/3/2009
Cash for Clunkers Program Suspended and Back
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What’s the deal with the Cash for Clunkers Program? Within four days of starting, the program’s $1 billion dollar funding is already depleted. Then the next day, the house quickly rushed together another bill to add an additional $2 billion funding to be voted on this week. Since ...
econbrowser.com - 8/2/2009
Cash for clunkers
— econbrowser.com — A victim of its own success? One of the more embarrassing features of the New Deal was... the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, which paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow up good crops , as if destroying useful goods could somehow make the ... (more) Cash for clunkers
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Government's 'Cash for Clunkers' Program Runs Out of Gas Early
online.wsj.com - 7/31/2009
Government's 'Cash for Clunkers' Program Runs Out of Gas Early
— online.wsj.com — Associated Press A car in a dumpster is used to promote the government's cash-for-clunkers program at a... Vermont auto dealership on Monday. (more) Government's 'Cash for Clunkers' Program Runs Out of Gas ...

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More on Cash for Clunkers as the Broken Window Fallacy
researchreloaded.com - 8/5/2009
More on Cash for Clunkers as the Broken Window Fallacy
— researchreloaded.com — Economic Heroes?   With "Cash for Clunkers", the US is simply using a part of its productive... energy to go and destroy productive assets. While luckily a drop in the bucket, it is actually destroying value, perversely with the ... (more) More on Cash for Clunkers as the Broken Window Fallacy

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Cash For Clunkers Runs Dry — Daily Markets
The US Cash clunkers program is effectively out of money. If you go to the government website and read the fine print in the bill, then it suggests that dealers may not get reimbursed by the government if additional funds are not appropriated by the senate. I’m not sure how dealers are ...
Cash for Clunkers Update: Incentives End Tomorrow Unless Senate OKs More Funds — Earth2Tech
At least until Tuesday – that’s the most optimism that the Obama administration could muster this weekend about how long the depleted cash for clunkers program will last without approval of additional funds from the Senate. As we noted last week , the House fast-tracked a bill on ...