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AUTOS
Detroit's Disconnect
2/18/2009 12:00:00 AM
General Motors and Chrysler on Tuesday asked the Treasury Department to approve up to $18.6 billion more in federal loans to stay alive, but what they really need is proving more elusive: car buyers.
BUSINESS
The Big Bang of Bailouts
Jeffrey E. Garten 12/13/2008 12:00:00 AM
It is now frighteningly clear that the world's dramatic financial rescue efforts are both unprecedented in scope and creativity, and wholly inadequate. Despite the round-the-clock labor by exhausted officials on a number of continents, the medicine is not taking. We stand on the threshold of a calamity that goes well beyond the rupture of the banking system and the deepening of a global recession and that leads to major political instability and conflict. The needed response is a big-bang global bailout that is even bigger than what we have seen so far, one that puts governments in front of the contagion rather than always one step behind, and that is large and sweeping enough to restore confidence.
Questions And Answers: Cuban Vacation
9/7/2001 12:00:00 AM
In recent years, American travel magazines have been flooded with images of vintage Chevys, hand-rolled cigars, mojitos and virgin beaches beckoning American tourists to catch a "last chance" glimpse of Cuba in the sunset days of Fidel Castro's regime. But Americans might want to think twice before booking a flight.
PERSPECTIVES
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