edmunds.com - 10/30/2009
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Today the Department of Transportation and White House chose to respond to an analysis Edmunds.com released Wednesday that looked at auto sales this year and what sales volumes would have been had the popular Cash for Clunkers program never existed.
whitehouse.gov - 10/30/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
As part of President Obama's commitment to government
transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors...
on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th ...
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washingtontimes.com - 10/28/2009
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washingtontimes.com —
During his first nine months in office, President
Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors...
with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks
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Cash For Clunkers Costs Taxpayers $24,000 Per Vehicle
The Daily Bail —
... at some time in the last half of 2009. That means the government ended up spending about $24,000 each for those 125,000 additional vehicle sales.
Read the original report from Edmunds
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Update
Late Thursday the White House fought back with strong words but a weak argument.
And even later Thursday, Edmunds issued a rebuttal to the White House.
Finally, you might want to ...
Cash for Clunkers Duel: Edmunds vs the White House
Mises Economics Blog —
... always highly skeptical of any of these studies, Edmunds takes the position that it is just trying to understand the true state of auto sales in the U.S. outside of the crazed incentives offered through the Clunkers program. Also, while the government has a very clear agenda to fulfill, Edmunds only has the purpose of weeding out market distortions - such as government intervention - to arrive at normalized sales data for the auto industry. In a follow-up to the White House comments, Edmunds responded: ...
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