Get-R-Done, Then………..Wait
Congress passed the stimulus bill so fast no one had an opportunity to read the more than one thousand pages ... the legislative procedure this fast. According to Obama If these billons weren’t doled out to the loan sharks and used car salesmen America would surely become a second Atlantis and sink into the oceans. (more…) [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 20:56:45
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Creative Financing Makes America's Car-Mart a Good Bet in a Difficult Economy
Well, probably not a wife, but America's Car-Mart (CRMT) is one of those smaller ($225m cap) ... , Tennessee and Texas. Car-Mart provides affordable used vehicles for the proletariat. With over ... niche companies that knows how to creatively make a buck. America's Car-Mart was founded in 1981 [more...]
Date: 2008-08-31 08:23:59
America's Car-Mart Could Be Just the Right Vehicle for Tough Times
A friend of mine called last Tuesday and casually mentioned that his friend wanted to start a "buy here, pay here" used car dealership in response to the plunging availability of financing for automobiles ... its name: America's Car-Mart (CRMT) (16.33, $192mm market cap). I took a quick glance [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 07:02:44
General Motors Bailout
Op-Ed by John Addison (11/17/08). On September 24, Congress approved a $25 billion bailout for GM, Ford, and Chrysler ... that cost less at the pump and better alternatives to always using a car. America needs to be energy ... the $25 billion in rail and transit. When Chrysler got its 1980 loan guarantee, Lee Iacocca cut [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 19:34:14
Ford President of the Americas Mark Fields on In-Car Digital and Social Technology
Image via Wikipedia I've been holding back on one more Ford post, ... a recap of meeting Ford CEO Alan Mulally, a column about the future of in-car search with Director ... a car as being about? MF: A car used to just get you from Point A to Point B. What a car is becoming [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:36:54
Why judges should not rewrite mortgage contracts
Why judges should not rewrite mortgage contracts Do we really need to explain why this is a bad idea? ... will be borne by aspiring future homeowners, and by any American who uses credit of any kind, from car loans to credit cards. The ripple effects could further roil America's consumer credit markets. [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 10:10:35
America’s Manliest Cities
In a study that has Metrosexuals all atwitter, a study has been made of the fifty largest metropolitan areas, according to the census bureau, ... 0 and 100 based on how well it performed in each of the study’s manly categories. Factors used to determine the manliest city rankings included the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 21:12:28
America's Number One Enemy: Toilet Paper
" ... softness equals ecological destruction," says Allen Hershkowitz . "American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers' ", ( ... -guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say ... of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests . ( continue reading ) These people [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 00:29:43
America's quiet ports
The current inactivity at Port of Long Beach is indicative of larger problems in the highly coupled global economy ... cars. Because Americans are not buying foreign goods, China has slowed production. Slowed production means that they don't need cardboard boxes for packaging. Since we ship our used paper to China [more...]
Date: 2009-02-02 20:07:35
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