The most aggressive economic stimulus in the Federal Reserve’s 100-year history has the wheels turning for Detroit automakers. Cheaper borrowing costs and rising stock portfolio values are giving Americans the confidence to make big-ticket purchases. It’s welcome news for a...
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Ford trucks at a dealership in Colma, California.
Detroit Automakers Offer More Octane for Economy
Lobbyists Get Head Start on Potential EU Trade Accord
From Bloomberg Government’s Congress Tracker blog More than two dozen companies, trade associations and farm groups already had a head start lobbying on a potential trade accord with the European Union when President Barack Obama announced in his Feb. 12 State...
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Dodge Ram Loaded w/ Paul Harvey’s ‘God Made a Farmer:’ ‘Most Clever’
Chrysler and Fiat Chairman Sergio Marchionne should be expecting a call from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. No, his company’s not in trouble – far from it. Touring the floor of the Washington Auto Show this morning, the departing DOT leader...
Read more »Fiscal Cliff: Corporate Eyes Watching
The fiscal cliff. It’s on many people’s minds. It’s on the stock market’s collective mind, say analysts explaining the recent ride there. Among the many corporate filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission in November, the term has shown up...
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Jim Messina, center, campaign manager for the re-election of President Barack Obama, talks with reporters during a tour of the re-election headquarters in Chicago.
Messina: Romney’s Chrysler Ad One of Campaign’s Biggest Missteps
President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, said one of the campaign’s biggest missteps by Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign was a controversial ad suggesting that Chrysler Group LLC is moving Jeep productions to China. “They were spending the last...
Read more »Chrysler Employees Get Day Off to Vote — Salaried as Well as Union
Chrysler Group LLC, which recently found itself thrust into the presidential contest, gave its 64,200 U.S. employees the day off to vote, a company vice president said on Twitter. The automaker found itself in cameos in recent ads, with Republican nominee...
Read more »Worst Ads of the 2012 Campaign
Throughout this election campaign, some enterprising journalists at Storyful.com have been tracking the TV ads, Web videos and home-baked YouTube statements of a raucous 2012 election campaign, the tweets and other social media messages of a wired voting public. At...
Read more »Revenge v. Love: Campaign Closing
Reported by Lisa Lerer and Julianna Goldman Campaigning in New Hampshire this morning, Republican Mitt Romney called out President Barack Obama for talking about “revenge.” He was pointing to Obama’s own campaign words in Ohio the day before. “No, no,...
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Mitt Romney makes a "U" with his hands next to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during a campaign rally at University of Miami on October 31, 2012 in Coral Gables, Florida.
In The Hunt: Trouble in Campaign’s Final Days
Defense is the last position a politician should be in during the final days of a campaign, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt says in today’s “In the Hunt.” When former President Bill Clinton campaigns for President Barack Obama in Minnesota and Republican...
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A sales manager ties balloons to General Motors Chevrolet vehicles at a dealership in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Obama’s Auto Bailout: Moody’s OK
The Obama administration managed quite a deal for U.S. taxpayers when it rescued General Motors Co., Chrysler Group LLC and their financing arms in 2009, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The bond rating service issued an endorsement of the auto...
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Al Hunt
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Mark Silva
is deputy managing editor for government news in Washington and editor of Political Capital. He has covered the White House and national politics. -
Emma Fidel
is political editor for Bloomberg.com in Washington. She previously covered financial regulation as a Bloomberg intern. -
Don Frederick
edits political and government coverage for Bloomberg News. He previously worked for more than a decade at the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. -
Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. -
Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years. -
Jonathan Salant
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987. -
Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010. -
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
is a senior political reporter for the Washington Bureau. She covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News and previously covered the White House for the Baltimore Sun. -
Lisa Lerer
covers the White House and covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News. She covered Congress, lobbying and the 2008 campaign for Politico. -
John McCormick
is a national political reporter looking forward to the 2016 presidential campaign, which will be the fifth he's covered. He's also reported for The Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune. -
Julianna Goldman
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Hans Nichols
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Margaret Talev
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and covered the White House for McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered California and Florida politics. -
Cary O'Reilly
is Editor at Large at Bloomberg First Word and is Washington Daybook columnist for Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg News.
