Many on Wall Street are breathing easier this week because of the bailout passage, but no one is more relieved than the clean energy industry.
Because a bunch of you guys in the press have actually swallowed this Obama argument that, oh, it's because of the bailout of the auto industry that things are coming back.
Unfortunately, both the insurance industry and big businesses, who pay lower premiums because of the bailout guarantee, support TRIA.
The company paid off its federal loans last year, and just 22 percent of shoppers said they had avoided a Chrysler product because of the bailout.
Independent surveys show that some car buyers have avoided G.M. dealerships because of the bailout, and gravitated to products made by the Ford Motor Company, which survived without government aid.
RBS is also being forced to sell off parts of its business by Europe because of the bailout of the Edinburgh-based bank, and could conduct a stock market flotation of the branches, currently codenamed Rainbow.
In a survey last quarter of 30,000 Americans shopping for new vehicles, 32 percent of those who rejected a G.M. model said they would not consider buying from the carmaker because of the bailout.
Talks with the bank regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority about resuming dividends for the first time – after being blocked by the EU because of the bailout – will begin in the second half.
While the public sector cuts, in local services, schools and hospitals, are being made because of the bailout bill and the knock-on impact on the economy, banks across Europe are still being propped up indirectly by the state.
BOTH presidential candidates have been criticized for failing — at Tuesday's debate and previously — to name any promises or plans they're going to have to scrap because of the bailout and the failing economy.
While that is down from 59 percent in 2009, "G.M. still has quite a hangover," said Art Spinella, president of the firm that conducted the survey, CNW Marketing Research of Bandon, Ore ."That's a significant number of people who will buy something else because of the bailout".
