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...know EVs, and we know the consumer will be annoyed if the experience isn't a good one," says Craver. "A bad buying and user experience could hurt EV market growth; we have to make the experience positive." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...have followed the 10-month crisis even minimally, you will know the fears that CIT's failure are fanning again. Analysts say insurers and other large investors could be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Small businesses say they could be cut off from credit. That could cause more layoffs and further delay an economic recovery. Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat who heads the House Committee on Financial Services, said he has heard from a lot of people who say it will be a big problem for the economy, small businesses in particular, if CIT fails...
...apparently, the Treasury Department's bar for bailouts has risen, and CIT isn't tall enough anymore. And while some bank stocks traded down on Thursday, investors mostly shrugged off news of CIT's possible collapse. The Dow Jones industrial average rose nearly 100 points. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...White House never told the CIA why it panicked, at least as far as I know. But I do know that the Administration was living with the collective memory of the Church Committee hearings. In the mid-1970s, a Senate committee chaired by Frank Church hammered the CIA for its attempted assassinations of foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro. During the worst of it, the CIA wondered if it would survive. It did. But it was saddled with an order prohibiting assassination, and in 1981 Ronald Reagan amended it as Executive Order 12333. In the CIA, that was the closest thing...
...Naturally, things changed after 9/11, when everyone wanted to know why the CIA couldn't just assassinate Osama bin Laden. There's little doubt that the Bush Administration asked CIA Director George Tenet to study that very question, even as a hypothetical - in other words, to do contingency planning...