Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=56374Can the Big Three survive? Indicative Summary of Terms for Secured Term Loan Facility December 19, 2008 Chrysler Term Sheet: treas.gov  General Motors Term Sheet: treas.gov  greencarcongress.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5637438013210Glenn PetersenChinese Creating New Auto Niche Within Detroit By BILL VLASIC New York times May 12, 2013 DETROIT — Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit, part of the country’s steady push into the American auto industry. Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle tec...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288905365/12/2013 10:26:39 PMveritas501National City Lines, Inc. (NCL) was a controversial front company founded in Minnesota, United States in 1920 as a modest local transport company operating two buses which was reorganized into a holding company in 1936 with equity funding from General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phil...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287928973/22/2013 7:32:13 AMTimFSelling large vehicles was mostly responding to market demand. As for oil or energy independence, that isn't a very realistic goal, or a desirable one.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287036962/3/2013 9:23:04 AMveritas501The question is: Does it deserve to survive given what's its done to the US by encouraging the purchase of large vehicles? Other than the US Oil Industry, no other Industry has done more to promote US dependence on Oil (much of it imported) than the US Auto Industry.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286999682/1/2013 7:01:35 AMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286936191/29/2013 12:34:09 PMGlenn PetersenWhy Isn't GM Doing Better? by Megan McArdle The Daily Beast Sep 24, 2012 2:17 PM EDT The company has shed its legacy costs. Why is its market share still declining? A British friend who rented a Chevy Malibu last weak reported that it was "shocking", and not in a good way. The Chevy Volt, once touted as the comp...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284307289/24/2012 4:29:57 PMGlenn PetersenGeneral Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy -- Again Louis Woodhill, Contributor Forbes 8/15/2012 @ 6:24PM President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market share, and it...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283415478/16/2012 7:20:07 PMGlenn PetersenEmails: Geithner, Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers’ pensions By Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller Published: 12:27 AM 08/07/2012 Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salarie...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283192488/7/2012 10:24:31 AMGlenn PetersenIn Wooing of Nissan, a Lesson for Tech Jobs? By BILL VLASIC, HIROKO TABUCHI and CHARLES DUHIGG New York Times August 4, 2012 SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American assembly plant. Eighty miles to the sou...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283148048/4/2012 3:21:38 PMGlenn PetersenGM Marketing Chief Resigns as CEO Rebuilds in Slump By Tim Higgins Bloomberg Jul 29, 2012 5:40 PM CT General Motors Co. (GM) said its head of marketing, who decided to end advertising on Facebook (FB) Inc. and the Super Bowl, resigned as the automaker’s U.S. market share declines. Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ew...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283009197/29/2012 8:18:05 PMTimFGovernment Motors: As GM shares near record low, taxpayer loss on bailout rises to $35 billion By ED CARSON news.investors.com  H/T Prolifehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282439417/3/2012 12:16:24 PMTimFObama's United Auto Workers Bailout If the administration treated the UAW in the manner required by bankruptcy law, it could have saved U.S. taxpayers $26.5 billion. By JAMES SHERK AND TODD ZYWICKI online.wsj.com  [graphic]Message 28210189http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282101906/16/2012 1:36:07 AMTimFChrysler’s Newfound Immunity Jonathan H. Adler • April 5, 2012 8:14 am The WSJreports on an easter egg contained in Chrysler’s bankruptcy restructuring. Chrysler is immune from new punitive-damage claims from any alleged manufacturing defects in vehicles sold before the auto maker’s 2009 government-broker...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=280680824/8/2012 11:13:30 AMTimFGM to Idle Chevy Volt Output as Sales Slow By Sharon Terlep General Motors Co. will idle production of its Chevrolet Volt battery-powered car for five weeks beginning this month because of slow sales amid an effort to boost the vehicle's consumer appeal, the company said Friday. Launched last year with great ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279873993/3/2012 12:26:14 PMTimFGM's Profits Don't Mean Taxpayers Will Be Off the Hook The company's cash cushion might go to unions, not investors. Shikha Dalmia | February 22, 2012 Three years after being rescued by a taxpayer bailout, General Motors recently announced some rather ambitious profit targets for 2012. But even if it meets these t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279842933/1/2012 10:07:10 PMTimFSaving Those Jobs At GM & Chrysler Small Dead Animalspoints me to this article at the February 15, 2012 Canadian Financial Post concerning the Canadian government's bailout of GM and Chrysler. (I confess: I did not know that the Canadian and Ontario governments got roped into this idiocy as well as the U.S. gov...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279678382/23/2012 3:05:48 PMTimFWhy Companies Fail GM’s stock price has sunk by a third since its IPO. Why is corporate turnaround so difficult and rare? The answer is often culture—the hardest thing of all to change. By Megan McArdle The American auto industry—an industry that’s been the proud symbol of America’s manufactur...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279611622/20/2012 5:44:56 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2785117112/29/2011 10:35:45 PMTimFFannie and Freddie: Worse Than We Thought December 20, 2011, 9:52 am From Edward Pinto at the American Fannie and Freddie entered into agreements accepting responsibility for misleading conduct discovered by the SEC, including: 1. As of June 30, 2008, Freddie had $244 billion in subprime loans, while investor...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2783909012/21/2011 11:00:48 PMGlenn PetersenSaab may liquidate: Saab Files for Liquidation By DAVID JOLLY New York Times December 19, 2011 PARIS — The owner of Saab Automobile finally threw in the towel Monday, filing for bankruptcy after hopes of a life-saving investment from Chinese investors collapsed in the face of opposition from General Motors. ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2783386512/19/2011 6:12:51 PMGlenn PetersenJapanese Automakers Employ 407,000 Americans at 63 Facilities and Hundreds of Auto Dealerships Mark J. Perry CARPE DIEM Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Japan's automakers employ 407,000 Americans at these 29 plants and 34 R&D and design centers. [graphic] 1. Japanese automakers like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan are ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2782710212/15/2011 3:47:49 PMTimFDispatches from the Corporate State: A Study in Contrasts December 9, 2011, 11:39 am It is interesting to study the contrast between the handling of the Toyota accelerator problems, which turned out to be pretty much all driver error, and the Chevy Volt fire issues. In the case of the former, ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2781714512/10/2011 7:13:09 PMTimFQuestion for GM December 8, 2011, 10:32 am GM has announced it is willing to give a full refund to customers who bought Volts and are worried they will burst into flames. My question is this: In these refunds, does GM or the car buyer intend to reimburse the taxpayer for the $7500 subsidy we k...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2781359712/8/2011 6:09:40 PMGlenn PetersenU.S. boosts estimate of auto bailout losses to $23.6B David Shepardson/ Detroit News Washington Bureau Last Updated: November 14. 2011 7:22PM The Treasury Department dramatically boosted its estimate of losses from its $85 billion auto industry bailout by more than $9 billion in the face of General Motors Co.'s st...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2777185711/17/2011 3:06:30 AMGlenn PetersenOn the Road to Detroit’s Big Pileup If General Motors were any other company, it would probably be dead by now. In the summer of 2008, nearly a year before G.M. filed for bankruptcy, its executives were growing desperate. Rick Wagoner, its chief executive, secretly proposed a merger with Ford, while Bill Ford courte...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2767402210/1/2011 7:33:51 PMstockman_scottDetroit's big crash and bigger resurrection features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com  September 19, 2011: 1:35 PM ET FORTUNE -- It's easy to think Detroit's automakers -- at least General Motors and Chrysler -- were just too inept to avoid bankruptcy. They couldn't screw together a popular small car if their jobs relied on it...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276499289/20/2011 8:15:17 PMGlenn PetersenDetroit Sets Its Future on a Foundation of Two-Tier Wages By BILL VLASIC New York Times September 12, 2011 DETROIT — They are a cornerstone of Chrysler’s unlikely comeback: 900 employees turning out a Jeep Grand Cherokee S.U.V. every 48 seconds of the working day at an assembly plant here. Nothing distinguishe...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276320249/12/2011 2:45:28 PMTimFFord's brilliant bailout move may end up hurting By Doron Levin August 2, 2011: 12:20 PM ET FORTUNE -- Ford famously avoided the taint of government bailout by heavily mortgaging itself in November 2006 -- down to its iconic Blue Oval logo -- before global credit markets seized. And the American icon has seemed to sta...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=275382238/3/2011 10:59:41 AM