Will Henry Paulson sink Detroit?
Dean Baker By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Henry Paulson’s main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he...
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Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard International President Congress drove the Big Three CEOs out of Washington, D.C. last week, ordering them not to return with their tin cups until they could...
View ArticleToyota Republicans should cut their own pay
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard International President President Bush took to the TV Friday to announce that he wouldn’t walk past the financial crash of America’s Big Three automakers and do nothing...
View ArticleQ&A with auto industry expert William J. Holstein
Leo W. Gerard: The likes of Alabama Sen. Richard C. Shelby and other “Toyota Republicans,” as I call them, contend that GM and its partners in the Big Three American auto makers are antiquated and...
View ArticleBuild More Autos Overseas: Marginalize More U.S. Families
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard International President The economic structure of Jim Henson’s cartoon realm called Fraggle Rock reflects our own. In one HBO episode, the industrious, hard-hatted...
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