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Where the auto bailout stands

James Pethokoukis | September 17, 2012, 3:27 pm

The auto bailout got a lot of attention at the recent Democratic convention. The WSJ reports that GM now wants Washington to sell its stake in the car company. Worth a read if only for some great data points on … read more >

Pethokoukis

7 arguments against Obama’s auto bailouts

James Pethokoukis | July 30, 2012, 3:00 pm

President Obama has made the auto bailouts a big part of his reelection argument. In a recent piece in The American, Steve Conover takes the other side of the trade: 1. The choice in 2008-2009 was not bankruptcy versus no … read more >

Politics and Public Opinion

What you may have missed in this week’s polls: Memorial Day, private equity, and gay marriage

Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg | May 25, 2012, 9:00 am

Military Matters on Memorial Day: In the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, people had more confidence in the military than any of the other 17 institutions the pollsters examined. Fifty-four percent had a great deal of confidence in the military. … read more >

Economics

Are the bailed-out car companies profitable? 37 billion reasons why they’re not

James Pethokoukis | April 4, 2012, 9:10 am

AEI’s Kevin Hassett: In a February 28 speech, President Obama referred to this expenditure of $80 billion as a bet on the American worker, and added: “Now, three years later . . . that bet is paying off, not just … read more >

Economics

Eastwood and Obama in ‘A Fistful of Bailouts’

James Pethokoukis | February 6, 2012, 7:17 pm

Dirty Harry says if you didn’t support the taxpayer bailout of General Motors and Chrysler back in 2008 and 2009, you quit on America … punk! That’s basically the message of the Clint Eastwood-narrated Super Bowl ad which told U.S. … read more >

Economics

There’s no free lunch, or free broadband, or free bailouts

Daniel Rothschild | November 16, 2011, 4:06 pm

This afternoon the Treasury Department released a revised estimate of taxpayer losses from the auto bailout, saying GM’s declining stock prices have pushed the total losses up to $23.6 billion. By sheer coincidence, that’s almost exactly the figure that a … read more >

Economics

Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Debt-Ceiling Talks?

Bridget Johnson | June 1, 2011, 1:37 pm

Is it hot here in D.C.? That’s not just the sky-high temps and 180-percent-whatever humidity. It’s the fiery escalation in tone, tenor, and rhetoric on the debt limit that launched into full swing with Tuesday’s symbolic 318-97 vote shooting down … read more >