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- Is This a Rebound for Autos? [view article]
- Was July the Bottom for Auto Sales? [view article]
- Car Prices Keep Falling, Consumers Keep Waiting [view article]
- On the Need for Better Auto Sales Metrics [view article]
- Can't Turn My Back - Cramer's Lightning Round (8/26/08) [view article]
- Chrysler Considers Sale of Gas-Guzzling Dodge Viper [view article]
- Ford: Ripe for the (Bottom) Picking? [view article]
- Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence? [view article]
- Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
- Safe Haven Investments Amid a Global Crisis [view article]
- Pension Benefit Corporation Rolls the Dice at Exactly the Wrong Time [view article]
- Revisions Ratios Help Uncover Hidden Gems [view article]
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- Is This a Rebound for Autos?
- Car Prices Keep Falling, Consumers Keep Waiting
- On the Need for Better Auto Sales Metrics
- Was July the Bottom for Auto Sales?
- Ford: Ripe for the (Bottom) Picking?
- Chrysler Considers Sale of Gas-Guzzling Dodge Viper
- Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
- Pension Benefit Corporation Rolls the Dice at Exactly the Wrong Time
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Credit Derivatives, Moral Hazard and Systemic Risk [view article]
You called it. ReplyA Closer Look at the Impact of Higher Gasoline Prices on Driving [view article]
site-ing Paul Krugman as a source lowers your credibility from the start. ReplySell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market [view article]
Tom,Thanks for the update.
The difference between sharksm and me is that I made more money than I can spend over the last 4 months and it took him 40 years --- and that he only goes long and I only short and buy puts.
Bigpete --- GM can go to zero so there's $10 left to go.... I imagine that it will actually go to $5 and some arrogant hero private equity firm will sign up to get their teeth kicked in for the next 10 years till they learn that unions, healthcare, and future pension liabilities are not profitable for any business model.... including ones that make products that no one wants and are completely useless in an environment of $80+ barrells of oil. The airlines are similar.
In fact, I don't think these guys actually read the article, they simply became indignant that you said you shorted things. Watch out, Dick Fuld and Jamie Dimon may be next posting that your on the watch list!
Keep it up.
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General Motors: General Malaise [view article]
GM should keep Chevy and Cadillac and cut Buick down to one car (Lucerne), Pontiac down to one (G6), GMC down to one (Sierra), Saab out all together, and Saturn down to one (Vue). Next, GM needs to cut its staffing starting with the unclassified employees. These should be cut by 70%. These are GM's highest paid employees. They should then cut middle level employees and try and keep almost all of the lower employees who do not get paid that much. ReplySell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market [view article]
Tommy - you're too late to the shorting party of GM & Ford. All it takes is a decent piece of good news and you'll loose your pants and have to walk around the office in your pink undies. ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
I have only GM and Ford autos because I believe in buying American. I have a 1951 and a 2001 Chevy truck and a 2007 Mustang. If America truely wants an economic stimulus package, then quit bitchin' about Congress and buy an American car or truck.That said, GM, Ford, and Chrysler learned nothing from the gas crisis of the 1980's. The need to fire all of their car designers and hire some from the far east who know something about fuel economy and style. Reply
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General Motors: General Malaise [view article]
david is right. GM has survived these many years solely on the strength of its past greatness. It is and has been saddled with debt. Even if someday they were to make consistent profits, the gargantuan debt would crush them. Better to declare bankruptcy, sell assets, slim down, unwind the debt and start fresh. ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
If i were gm i would concentrate all my energy on building up Saab and going after honda and toyota with it. the same way lexus went after mercedes benz.Us young people would start buying them. As soon as we hear chevy impala or malibu we roll our eyes and look the other way. i don't care if it flys, we don't want 900 year old regurgitated junk. we want google and apple on wheels.... Reply
General Motors: General Malaise [view article]
I agree with the first writer. GM Is doing gangbuster sales overseas. In 2009 or 2010, their legacy costs will in some ways be reduced due to many retired UAW workers dying off. Give them time and I think they will be OK. Getting rid of Buick and/or Pontiac, Saab, etc. might be worthwhile. ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
you have consistently said bad things about the us auto industry. you indicated as well as other media mavens that June sales for toyota would exceed GM sales for he month of June 2008. If the figures are correct,sales of GM exceeded toyota in the US by 70,000 vehicles in the US. If you take into account that GM and Ford were never able to sell any cars in Japan due to restrictions set up by the auto industry and government in Japan,you would stop criticizing GM and Ford and start promoting their products. Toyota sell app 2 million cars in Japan.How many does GM and Ford sell to the Japanese. if you think that the Chinese are controlling their currency against the US,what do you think Japan has been doing for last fifty years. If Gm and Ford were to fail,American workers and manufacturers would be in serious trouble requiring a bailout of enormous proportions and would make the Chrysler bailout look like childs play. ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
its easier to sit in the ac office & pontificate as hundreds do it everyday. if they really knew they would not have to. ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
When does this stupidity end? GM has a very bright future. First look at the overseas business. It's booming!!!! Next, look at how quickly this company is reacting to the current dramatic change in the market. As a veteran of 30 years in this industry, GM used to take YEARS to react. Now they can change within weeks. And PLEASE stop lumping GM and Ford together. The situations are completely different. FORD has put up the entire company including the Blue Oval as collateral on its loans!!!! GM will survive and eventually prosper. Ford and Chrysler are quite a different story. Why don't you write about Toyota and theirTundra-Texas factory fiasco. How about how much the Europeans are losing money on their American sales due to the crappy dollar? If you went out into the marketplace and compared the quality of the various vehicles, you would have a very different tune. Try the Peter Lynch theory of actually getting out of the ivory tower and going among the masses. It will open your eyes!!! Reply
Sell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market [view article]
Having Invested for 40 years, made more money than I could ever spend and never having shorted a stock, nor bought sold options, I am amused that a short seller can crow about success during a Bear market. We have been in a downtrend for months brought on by the sub prime mess, lack of liquidity among the financials and the high price of oil, (by the way shorting Oil producers like XOM during $140.00 oil is a death wish. ) If Oil was $100 a barrel, XOM would be coining money and even it's refining division would become more profitable, as the crack spread widened. Recommending shorting Airlines & Autos (Ford, GM, etc) could have been done two years ago. I cannot remember the last time Airlines or American Car Companies ,made money with onerous Union contracts and rising gasoline prices.In fact, since Wilbur Wright flew the first plane, the business has lost money and I don't expect to see General Motors, Ford nor Chrysler in their existing form in five years. What's left of them will be sold off to Toyota, Honda and Tata. ReplyWendling
Sell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market [view article]
This author has the right idea about these issues since they will continue to move lower in the near term. However, he neglected to state how big the short positions are for the specialists and market makers that run each of these issues. For information on how specialists short their own stocks and reviews on several of the companies listed here simply click on my link to learn how it is done.Richard Reply
Stocks That May Take a Hit When (If) Oil Hits $150 [view article]
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