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Nov 09

Daily Links for October 30th through November 1st

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 11th

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May 09

Daily Links for May 30th

  • Wordgeddon | GOOD – Though apocalypse and Armageddon are used interchangeably in this trend, they used to have distinct meanings. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the original sense of apocalypse as “The ‘revelation’ of the future granted to St. John in the isle of Patmos,” which sounds like a good isle to avoid. Not until the late nineteenth century did the term start to mean “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm. Also in weakened use.” I feel safe in saying a-taco-lypse and French-fry-pocalypse fit under the rubric of weakened use.

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May 09

Chrysler to be 800-dealerships lighter

It’s official – Chrysler is looking to shed nearly 800 dealers.

The auto dealers have an extremely strong lobbying arm, but mostly at the state level.  You can rest assured that if 100 new car dealers (and their promises of campaign contributions) appear before Congress, there will be some sort of common-sense-defying bailout to the dealers with the pretense of “saving Main Street”.


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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 29th


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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 25th


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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 2nd


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Jan 09

Daily Links for January 27th

  • Auto Dealerships Prepare for Shakeout – WSJ.com – Thousands of dealer-franchisees are threatened with losing their businesses in coming months amid falling sales and uncertainty over the future of Detroit's Big Three auto makers and their many brands.

    Auditing firm Grant Thornton LLP's Detroit office predicts that 3,800 of all of the country's 20,000 dealerships would need to close to maintain sales per dealer at last year's level. General Motors Corp. alone forecasts paring at least 1,700, or about a fourth, of its dealers by 2012 as it contemplates a restructuring.

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