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Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Rick Wagoner General Motors Chief Steps Down!
Heads finally roll as Obama forces GM chief Rick Wagoner out as a condition for additional government funding.
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General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner is stepping down after being asked by the government to relinquish his position at the helm of the largest American automaker, people familiar with the situation said Sunday.
Wagoner's departure comes on the eve of President Barack Obama's scheduled presentation of his vision for the U.S. auto industry. The president has said he wants to help the struggling industry but faces mounting opposition to bailouts of businesses and industries.
GM declined to comment. But an Obama administration official said Sunday that the White House had sought Wagoner's resignation and he had agreed.
GM has set a 9 a.m. conference call for Monday morning with top company officials. A person familiar with the matter said GM President and Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson would be named CEO on an interim basis.
Henderson has been carrying out the company's restructuring on a day to day basis and knows the auto task force leaders.
Wagoner was a GM lifer who became the company's chief executive in 2000 and chairman in 2003. Industry experts credit him with pushing through profound reforms at the 100-year-old company, but his critics say Wagoner moved too slowly.
After losing $82 billion since 2004, GM is now subsisting on federal loans as it struggles to survive one of the most perilous stretches in its history.
The company has received $13.4 billion from the government and is seeking up to $16.6 billion more.
"From the government's perspective, they had to show a visible form of sacrifice," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor and the son of a former GM president.
"At one level I'm surprised," he said, "and at another level, not at all."
Obama said earlier on Sunday that Detroit's automakers had taken measures to improve their competitiveness.
"We think we can have a successful U.S. auto industry," he said on CBS's news show "Face the Nation."
"But it's got to be one that's realistically designed to weather this storm and to emerge at the other end much more lean and mean and competitive than it currently is. And that's going to mean a set of sacrifices from all parties -- management, labor, shareholders, creditors, suppliers, dealers," Obama said.
The president is scheduled to present his strategy for the auto industry from the White House Grand Foyer at 11 a.m. on Monday.
[source:http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12025020]
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General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner is stepping down after being asked by the government to relinquish his position at the helm of the largest American automaker, people familiar with the situation said Sunday.
Wagoner's departure comes on the eve of President Barack Obama's scheduled presentation of his vision for the U.S. auto industry. The president has said he wants to help the struggling industry but faces mounting opposition to bailouts of businesses and industries.
GM declined to comment. But an Obama administration official said Sunday that the White House had sought Wagoner's resignation and he had agreed.
GM has set a 9 a.m. conference call for Monday morning with top company officials. A person familiar with the matter said GM President and Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson would be named CEO on an interim basis.
Henderson has been carrying out the company's restructuring on a day to day basis and knows the auto task force leaders.
Wagoner was a GM lifer who became the company's chief executive in 2000 and chairman in 2003. Industry experts credit him with pushing through profound reforms at the 100-year-old company, but his critics say Wagoner moved too slowly.
After losing $82 billion since 2004, GM is now subsisting on federal loans as it struggles to survive one of the most perilous stretches in its history.
The company has received $13.4 billion from the government and is seeking up to $16.6 billion more.
"From the government's perspective, they had to show a visible form of sacrifice," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor and the son of a former GM president.
"At one level I'm surprised," he said, "and at another level, not at all."
Obama said earlier on Sunday that Detroit's automakers had taken measures to improve their competitiveness.
"We think we can have a successful U.S. auto industry," he said on CBS's news show "Face the Nation."
"But it's got to be one that's realistically designed to weather this storm and to emerge at the other end much more lean and mean and competitive than it currently is. And that's going to mean a set of sacrifices from all parties -- management, labor, shareholders, creditors, suppliers, dealers," Obama said.
The president is scheduled to present his strategy for the auto industry from the White House Grand Foyer at 11 a.m. on Monday.
[source:http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12025020]
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Vurtego Pogo Stick mad skillz
Here's what all my friends are talking about now, check out this cool vid:
And case you're wondering where you can get one of these, the good news is that it's available online!
oh yeah, it's the Vurtego Pogo stick, not Vertigo. lol.
And case you're wondering where you can get one of these, the good news is that it's available online!
oh yeah, it's the Vurtego Pogo stick, not Vertigo. lol.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Seychelles Bankrupt!
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Seychelles applied to join the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Fund Facility in 2010, the Seychelles Nation reported, citing Finance Minister Danny Faure.
The nation’s debt is “not sustainable” and it needs international help, the Victoria-based newspaper said on its Web site today.
Seychelles has borrowed $26 million over two years from the IMF, and will borrow a further $10 million from the African Development Bank and $9 million from the World Bank this year, the newspaper said.
The Extended Fund Facility, established in 1974, is a loan facility which allows member countries to overcome balance of payments problems.
Calls to the Seychelles finance ministry seeking comment weren’t answered.
[source: Bloomberg]
The nation’s debt is “not sustainable” and it needs international help, the Victoria-based newspaper said on its Web site today.
Seychelles has borrowed $26 million over two years from the IMF, and will borrow a further $10 million from the African Development Bank and $9 million from the World Bank this year, the newspaper said.
The Extended Fund Facility, established in 1974, is a loan facility which allows member countries to overcome balance of payments problems.
Calls to the Seychelles finance ministry seeking comment weren’t answered.
[source: Bloomberg]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Taking Woodstock
Taking Woodstock is a film by Ang Lee currently in post production and scheduled for release on August 14 2009.
Starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liev Schreiber, Paul Dano, Eugene Levy, and Dan Fogler, the comedy is a real life account of motel owner, Mr Elliot Tiber and how he plays a pivotal role in the 1969 Woodstock rock concert.
Here's the trailer that just premiered yesterday!!!
The movie is based on the autobiography, Taking Woodstock, by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. Check out the book before catching the movie:
Starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liev Schreiber, Paul Dano, Eugene Levy, and Dan Fogler, the comedy is a real life account of motel owner, Mr Elliot Tiber and how he plays a pivotal role in the 1969 Woodstock rock concert.
Here's the trailer that just premiered yesterday!!!
The movie is based on the autobiography, Taking Woodstock, by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. Check out the book before catching the movie:
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