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...This isn't all that out of the ordinary for a recession. Typically, companies ring up tax credits in down years and use the credits to plump up the bottom line when business picks up. But what is turning the run-of-the-mill tax credit into a bonanza this recovery is the huge amount that corporate America has lost in the past two years. Also, stimulus spending has turned around the economy and corporate profits faster than normal for a particularly deep recession. The speedy turnaround in corporate profits, which are expected to soar 60% in the fourth quarter...
...Audi isn't doing too badly in the recession, but sales are down, right? You cannot expect to escape the effects of the market. The luxury market is down by over 30%. I think if you compare our performance in that context, Audi is unquestionably the best performer in the luxury sector in the U.S. We're also selling more expensive cars and customers are buying better-equipped cars. This means on a revenue basis, we are virtually equal to last year, and I'm kind of grateful for that...
Plot Intrigue: Is it just me or are all the storylines extra lame?? Bathroom Boy?? I mean, that story isn't even funny. Or worth those 90 seconds of Jimmy Fallon time...
...that's not exactly the same as the White House's charge that Fox is essentially a political operation. But it suggests that those "fair and balanced" ads don't fool the people actually watching the stuff. Fox isn't alone, though: the survey showed that far more viewers saw ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC as liberal than saw them as conservative. (See pictures of NBC's Tom Brokaw...
...they all, in these unsettled times, have various issues with the centrist establishment - which has its own permutations and camps. All of this promises wild and interesting times for journalists to cover, but they won't be able to do it from the neutral center. Because there isn't one, and there never...