Video - Obama: $2.5 billion grant for auto innovation
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 8/6/2009 — President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the stimulus is now providing $2.4 billion in taxpayer grants to create electric cars and tens of thousands of jobs during a speech in Indiana.

Obama creating auto industry panel
msnbc.msn.com 2/16/2009 — The Obama administration is establishing a panel, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, to direct the restructuring of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.

Guest Post: Obama’s Plan for the Auto Industry
baselinescenario.com 4/4/2009 — My Yale Law School colleague Ilya Podolyako comments on the Obama administration’s plan for the auto industry and the tension between public goals - preserving jobs, increasing fuel efficiency, etc. - and private goals - profitability. By now, the dust seems to have settled around ...

Press Office - Fact Sheet on Obama Administration Auto Restructuring Initiative for General Motors
whitehouse.gov 6/1/2009 — General Motors Restructuring On March 30, 2009, President Obama laid out a framework for General Motors to achieve viability that required the Company to rework its business plan, accelerate its operational restructuring and make far greater ...

Jenkins: Obama at the Auto Buffet
online.wsj.com 5/20/2009 — With his latest installment of ever-higher fuel mileage requirements for the auto industry, Barack Obama embraces a momentary, crisis-spawned expansion of the art of the possible, unleavened by any art of the rationally desirable. Detroit is dependent ...

Obama and the Bailout
clubforgrowth.org 12/12/2008 — It is now clear that the UAW pulled the plug on the auto bailout. It seems to me that all this really means is that they think GM and perhaps Chrysler can somehow limp along to Jan. 6 or Jan. 20 when they can pass a bailout that does not require them to work for wages and benefits comparable to ...

Obama: This Is No 'Run-of-the-Mill Recession'
online.wsj.com 2/10/2009 — Obama: This Is No 'Run-of-the-Mill Recession' Addressing the nation in his first prime-time news conference as president, Barack Obama says our economy isn't in a "run-of-the-mill recession." Obama: This Is No 'Run-of-the-Mill Recession' Addressing ...

Rattner Steps Down From Obama Auto Task Force
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 7/13/2009 — With Chrysler and General Motors having turned themselves around in bankruptcy even more quickly than anyone had expected, Steven Rattner, the head of the Obama administration's auto task force, is stepping down.

Auto suppliers to seek new government aid: report
reuters.com 6/9/2009 — (Reuters) - U.S. auto suppliers, who negotiated federal loans earlier this year, plan to ask the Obama administration's auto task force this week for $8-$10 billion in loan guarantees, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Industry trade groups plan to ...

Detroit Auto Makers Need More Than a Bailout
online.wsj.com 11/10/2008 — As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to enter the White House, he must ponder what to do about the world's trouble spots: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, the Caucasus. And, oh yes, Detroit. On Friday, General Motors and Ford announced more ...

The Patient Is in Stable Condition — The Big Money 4/30/2009
The first 100 days of the Obama administration, tumultuous and full of drama, have been dominated by economic issues. In its first few months, the Obama team has attempted to tackle the massive macroeconomic problems we face (with a huge stimulus ...

Lexington : Party-hopping — The Economist: Full print edition 4/30/2009
Arlen Specter has shifted the balance of power in Washington yet farther to the left THIS week was always going to be a gloomy one for the Republicans, with Barack Obama celebrating his first 100 days in office and the media singing ...

Spreading electricity: A gust of progress — The Economist: Full print edition 4/30/2009
Creating windpower transmission in the Midwest FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT helped bring electricity beyond America’s cities to its most distant farms. Barack Obama hopes the countryside will return the favour. Much of this challenge rests in the gusty ...

Obama and trade: Low expectations exceeded — The Economist: Full print edition 4/30/2009
Though Barack Obama has shown less protectionism than was feared, he needs to do more to resist it in Congress and to press forward on Doha THE president has shown signs of shedding the protectionist baggage he brought to the White House. As ...

Obama's record: A hundred days of hyperactivity — The Economist: Full print edition 4/30/2009
Buoyant polls and a defecting senator put Barack Obama in a strong position ON APRIL 27th a large passenger jet flew low over Manhattan, closely pursued by a fighter aircraft. Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers panicked. Few were amused to discover later ...