Cash For Clunkers Program

BOOK REVIEW: 'Money Well Spent?' : Reporter Travels the Nation to See if the …
HNN Huntingtonnews.net
Cash for Clunkers, Shovel Ready. These phrases are so 2009. I've been trying to put them out of my mind, but Michael Grabell necessarily uses them in his new book about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — more commonly known as The …

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Auto industry's rebound continues
MiamiHerald.com
The current rebound began with 2009's tax-funded “Cash for Clunkers” program, in which Washington paid people to trade in their older vehicles. Between 1997 and 2007, auto sales have averaged about 16.5 million a year, which is still 20 percent above …

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Economics in a lesson
Bennington Banner
The examples on our current economic landscape are myriad – repeated stimulus programs, the housing loan crisis, "Cash for Clunkers" – yet their lessons continue to be ignored even as the consequences of mistaken and harmful actions manifest themselves …

Ten Years in the Automotive Trenches for Dealer Marketing Magazine
Dealer Marketing Magazine
If you're reading this you probably remember the days of making money, the industry meltdown, Cash for Clunkers, and the snail's pace recovery. It hasn't all been fun, but you have survived. More importantly, you have witnessed the biggest shift in …

Not National News: Bankrupt Solyndra Destroys Millions of Dollars' Worth of Glass
NewsBusters (blog)
By Tom Blumer | January 25, 2012 | 00:15 I guess what follows shouldn't be a total surprise, given that the Obama administration was perfectly comfortable ruining hundreds of thousands of perfectly good cars during the Cash For Clunkers program in 2009 …

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From Solyndra to cash for clunkers to Obama's slogans, Romney pre-buts SOTU
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
When we needed a climate for private investment, he gave us Cash for Clunkers. When we needed more domestic energy to keep prices low and create jobs, he imposed bans on oil drilling and turned his EPA regulators loose to slow our development of …
Romney: Make Obama's State of the Union his lastWashington Times
The State of His PoliciesWall Street Journal

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No government program has just positive effects
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page This is regarding Jean Madden's Wednesday letter about the Cash for Clunkers program and many other letters attacking government. Despite the undue influence of, especially, big business on government, we need to remember that we are …

Romney Calls on Gingrich to Release Freddie Mac Report
ABC News (blog)
When a woman nearby yelled something about Obama's “cash for clunkers” program, Romney turned her remark into a new catch phrase. “Yeah, that's right, he had a plan to get the whole economy going, cash for clunkers,” Romney replied. “So we're going to, …

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Cash for Clunkers aided shortage of used cars
Syracuse.com (blog)
No doubt these factors are important causes, but he omitted any mention of another, government-inflicted component, the Cash for Clunkers program in 2009. This program, which provided rebates of up to $4500 to buyers of new cars with higher mileage …

Will the IMF tap American taxpayers for a $100 billion EU bailout?
Hot Air
The fund that the Daily Caller rightly reports as a potential American taxpayer bailout got created in 2009 as part of the legislation that also launched Cash for Clunkers, the notoriously failed effort that wasted $3 billion more by subsidizing car …

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