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			<title><![CDATA[Three-headed dog from hell preying on Chrysler, GMAC, lease biz]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's no way this panicked flight from leases -- Chrysler first, then JP Morgan Chase, then GMAC and then Ford Motor Credit  -- signals anything but worse times ahead for the Auburn Hills ward of Cerberus Capital Management and, potentially, would-be buyers of General Motors and Ford pickups.

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			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:32 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What you won't hear from pols on the Fannie & Freddie bailout]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the end, we all pay. We pay because "Wall Street got drunk," as President Bush was surreptitiously recorded saying. We pay because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, quasi-governmental mortgage backers owned by shareholders, essentially are backstopped by American taxpayers to the benefit of private]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:07 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detroit's Tiger Stadium saga shows a city burdened by its past]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You don't need a degree in historic preservation to see Detroiters have a thing about clinging to rotting artifacts of their glorious past -- the archaic Hudson's Building, the gap-toothed Michigan Central Train Depot and outmoded Tiger Stadium, now blessedly succumbing to the wrecking ball long]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:41 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detroit's deepening woe: How bad it is, and how did it get this way?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Am in the Big Apple at a seminar attended by folks from around the country who a) know Detroit's automakers are sick and b) don't understand how it got this bad and c) wonder if we'll pull out of our collective nosedive.

I pause, look at them and say: "Not sure." Misinformation,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detroit Council, DPS antics give new meaning to 'leadership']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think it was Barbara Rose Collins, the esteemed, tiara-wearing member of Detroit City Council, who once said she resented the implication (by whom I don't recall) that Detroit can't govern itself.


Judging by council's on-again, off-again battle with the embattled mayor and, this weekend, a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:18 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[On 'speculators' driving oil higher and Rust Belt self-destruction]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What does it say that the two lawmakers leading last week's Capitol Hill wail about skyrocketing oil prices hail from the Big Mitten -- namely that ol' lion, Rep. John Dingell, and his would-be Energy and Commerce understudy, Rep. Part Stupak?


Tells me they know a political opportunity when]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:43 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA['Environmentalist moralisms' clash with world of Putin, Chavez]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[High gas prices are pushing Detroit's automakers to the financial brink, delivering losses to mighty Toyota Motor Corp. in the United States, pinching motorists and businesses across the country and becoming issue No. 1 in the presidential campaign.


And what do our esteemed leaders (of both]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Labor disputes, dysfunctional Big Three scuttle Michigan image]]></title>
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			<author>(Daniel Howes)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Takes a particularly keen sense of denial to insist that the 12-week American Axle strike, walkouts at two General Motors plants and, today, a Teamsters walkout against car-hauler Performance Transportation Services don't (or won't) hamper Michigan's image in the economic marketplace for investment]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:37 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Levin, Stabenow offer profile in courage on climate change. Right.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Republicans in the U.S. Senate today managed to torpedo the Climate Change bill, handing coastal Democrats and presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama an embarrassing defeat. Siding with their party and its standard-bearer were, natch, Michigan's own Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.


If the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Center for Michigan founder does Mackinac, nails sad truth]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Apologies to the head-in-the-sand crowd: Phil Power, the retired newspaper publisher turned think tanker, did the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference with 1,700 others and this is what he saw:

"Many of the programs ... were thoughtful, far-seeing, appropriate to the need for]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:15 AM</pubDate>
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