Re: Query: Ford/General Motors - correction

2004-07-24 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/23/2004 6:35:11 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A per unit drop of labor input of 40% in 30 years is running at an annual improvement factor of more than 10% and what is built into the union contract is an annual improvement factor of 3%

Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Hoover
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng info the other day indicating that each only made profits from credit/lending operations... michael hoover -- Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Perelman, Michael
] Query: Ford/General Motors what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng info the other day indicating that each only made profits from credit/lending operations... michael hoover -- Please Note: Due to Florida's

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Daniel Davies
investment) sector - nobody knows why. dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Hoover Sent: 23 July 2004 18:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Query: Ford/General Motors what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng info

Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng info the other day indicating that each only made profits from credit/lending operations... michael hoover ^ You must be reading Detroit newspapers in Ann Arbor, Michael. Charles

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Waistline2
Wall Street analysts said they'd like to see GM -- as well as Ford -- make more money from selling cars and trucks. Ford is even more dependent than GM on its credit business, getting about 77 percent of its profits from there. "I think at both GM and Ford the reliance is a general concern.

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Carrol Cox
Charles Brown wrote: what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng info the other day indicating that each only made profits from credit/lending operations... michael hoover ^ You must be reading Detroit newspapers in Ann Arbor, Michael. It made the Chicago

Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
It made the Chicago papers too; I can't remember now, but I think there was a brief story on it in the Bloomington Pantagraph. GM Ford are big news reverberate outside the City of Eddie Guest. :-) Carrol ^ CB: Well GM is only about the third largest company in the world now. I wonder if

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Perelman
I don't recall the exact details, but a few years ago when Rupert Murdoch was looking to expand his satellite business the Wall Street Journal said that he was mulling over the possibility of buying General Motors, because its satellite division was worth more on the market than the company as a

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/23/2004 4:04:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB: Well GM is only about the third largest company in the world now. I wonder if what's good for General Motors is still good for America. Way back in the thirties it was Alfred P. Sloan ( I think)

Re: Query: Ford/General Motors

2004-07-23 Thread Waistline2
General Motors put on the back burner for a moment its new production facility design of modular produced vehicles . .. where the modules are shipped to a central point for assembly. By the early 1970 General Motors already had the blueprints for a 90 - 95% automated engine assembly plant .