November’s stink auto sales:
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Another Month of Miserable Auto Sales
NICK BUNKLEY
NYT, December 2, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/03sales.html
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
The stealth breadlines are getting longer and longer
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS277&q=food%20stamp%20population
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
1. Destroy the credit market
2. Hand out taxpayer money to the companies that destroyed the credit market
3. Force the manufacturers into bankruptcy
4. In bankruptcy kneecap the union workers (taxpayers) and the other manufacturing companies that produce the raw materials
5. Come out of bankruptcy with better PE so companies that destroyed the credit market can make more money