Friday, December 12, 2008

U.S. Treasury Ready to Prevent Failure of Automakers

Hank...what is next? Newspapers? Retailers? Fast Food Restaurants? Gotta love Capitalism!

(Bloomberg) The Bush administration dropped its opposition to using the $700 billion bank bailout fund to provide financing for U.S. automakers after the Senate yesterday failed to approve emergency loans.

The administration’s willingness to give short-term help to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC eased the concern of at least some investors that the companies will collapse and worsen what is already the longest recession since the early 1980s. Stocks pared their losses.

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