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...Fiat also offers Chrysler very competent small cars that could put Chrysler fairly quickly in segments like the fast-growing subcompact market, where sales could grow by a third in the next four years, says Hall. Chrysler's smallest car is the compact Dodge Caliber, which has enjoyed limited success. In addition, the Fiat platforms are flexible enough to accommodate different body styles, from two doors to four doors to hatchbacks and small wagons, he says...
...conference of real estate editors, James Lockhart, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said on Thursday the government shouldn't run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Lockhart should know. He leads the agency that has been doing just that since last September, when the giant mortgage insurers were put into government conservatorship. Lockhart said his experience with Fannie and Freddie as well as helping to run other government insurance programs taught him that government ownership for these types of companies doesn't work. (See what to expect when the recession ends...
...will be spending the next few weeks trying to reduce the price tag. It is looking, for instance, for ways to make sure that people who now get coverage from their employers cannot drop it in favor of being insured through a government program (which would, in many cases, put at least part of their health costs on the back of the taxpayer). Finance Committee members also are considering how generous to make the basic benefits that would be offered under health reform, since the more medical services that they insist be offered, the more it will cost the government...
...even if the election campaign, in the end, proves meaningless, it provided a rare look at the divisions in Iranian society, and not just between the working-class Ahmadinejad supporters and the wealthier, better-educated backers of Mousavi. It also put the internal rivalries at the highest levels of the Iranian government on public display for the first time, and in the most embarrassing fashion...
...fledgling democratic movement, and history the Op-Ed pages of our newspapers would prefer to forget. But at the very least, it should be a reminder that, when it comes to political leaders, there are no good choices in Iran. It is a promising sign that Mousavi has put his violent past behind him, as has Iran for the most part, but let's not completely forget his far-from-democratic roots...