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Heartland Daily Podcast – Jesse Hathaway: Taxpayers Lost Billions on Auto-Bailout
by Jesse Hathaway January 28, 2015On January 6, Heartland Institute Research Fellow Jesse Hathaway joined Genesis Communications Network’s Charles Butler to talk about how taxpayers lost billions of dollars on the U.S. Treasury Department’s bailout of banks and automobile manufacturing companies several years ago.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – John Berlau: Taxpayers Lose Billions on Auto Bailout
by Jesse Hathaway January 20, 2015Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Berlau joins The Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News managing editor Jesse Hathaway to talk about the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent announcement that the “auto bailout” portion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) had officially ended with the final repayment of taxpayer-funded loans to Ally Financial, formerly known as GMAC.
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Here’s the question for you, dear conservative and libertarian readers: Would you now consider buying a GM vehicle if its prior government ownership was a negative factor for you in the past?
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
DOE Claims More ‘Success’ With Another Clean Energy Bankruptcy
by Paul Chesser September 18, 2013Monday’s development is another black eye to President Obama’s green energy agenda, but we’ve come to learn that each flop is just another reason for his Energy Department to look on the bright side.
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Environment/Energy
Taxpayer-Supported Fisker Looking to China, Like A123
by Paul Chesser February 23, 2013Stimulus déjà vu-lishness lurks: Another “green” tech company that received hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars is financially troubled, seeks a buyer (or their preferred term – a “partner”), and China is ready…
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On the campaign trail, President Obama claimed that $50-billion-bailed-out General Motors (GM) was back — as the globe’s top car seller. The president was saying this long after it stopped being…