GMAC plays its too-big-to-fail card… again

The Treasury, as major shareholder of such credit boom casualties as Citigroup and General Motors, showed with its $3.8 billion infusion into GMAC that it can still be counted on to safeguard the financial system from systemic collapse. The auto-loan company, which had dutifully spread its wings into mortgages in the housing boom, wound up […]

Ten New Taxes Americans Will Get Slapped With to Pay for Healthcare

From The Business Insider, Dec. 30, 2009: Last night the Senate got 60 votes on the second of three crucial

Tech Ticker’s Best of 2009: Guest of the Year, Barry Ritholtz

On March 10, Barry Ritholtz, CEO of Fusion IQ, came on Tech Ticker and said the “mother of all bear market rallies” was upon us. …

The afternoon deal

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? This message was repeated throughout the day with GM extending its deadline for Saab bids, Britain’s Takeover Panel granting Cadbury three more days to publish 2009 results and Japan Airlines stock continuing a long slide with growing expectations the company is heading for bankruptcy.
For the […]

Saab rolls into 2010

Saab workers are probably reminding themselves it is always darkest just before the dawn, which takes a lot longer to arrive in the Scandinavian winter than anywhere else. With the lights set to start going out at Saab plants, word surfaced that parent General Motors’ Dec. 31 deadline for bids was being extended into early […]

The Mailbag: Tech Ticker Viewers Sound Off, We Reply

The time has come once again for us at Tech Ticker to comment on your comments.  Digging through the thousands of responses, can be an emotional roller-coaster.  Viewer feedback ranges from passionate and well thought to hateful and utterly inco

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The Best-Performing Stock Markets of the Decade

From The Business Insider, Dec. 29, 2009:While U.S. equity markets are doing superb since the March rally began, we’ve undergone tough times in this past decade. Two bubbles, near-systemic collapse, and a

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Tech Ticker’s Best of 2009: Fan Favorite, Howard Davidowitz

Tech Ticker conducted hundreds of interviews this year with dozens of guests on numerous topics.  But one guest consistently garnered massive amounts of excitement and (for the most part) positive reaction from you, the audience.Without question, How

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