{"id":10054,"date":"2008-12-09T04:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T04:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/professor_bainbridge_why_the_emerging_auto_bailout_stinks\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T04:51:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T04:51:28","slug":"professor_bainbridge_why_the_emerging_auto_bailout_stinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10054","title":{"rendered":"Professor Bainbridge: Why the emerging auto bailout Stinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>1. Why would anyone with the common sense God gave gravel think that a board consisting of political appointees&#8211;none of whom as named to date have any auto experience&#8211;will bring anything useful to the table? They don\u2019t know jack about the industry and none has experience as a turn around investor. (OTOH, they can\u2019t do all that much worse than the current management of the Big Three.)<\/p>\n<p>2. An oversight committee comprised of 6 cabinet level officers has way too many chiefs and no indians. Who\u2019s going to be in charge?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenbainbridge.com\/punditry\/comments\/why_the_emerging_auto_bailout_sucks\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thoughts. 1. Why would anyone with the common sense God gave gravel think that a board consisting of political appointees&#8211;none of whom as named to date have any auto experience&#8211;will bring anything useful to the table? They don\u2019t know<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10054\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}