Chinese firms in talks to buy electric car maker Fisker Automotive reportedly are having second thoughts, balking over the possibility that Fisker’s U.S. government loan would compel any buyer to churn out cars at an aging GM plant in Delaware. Source: FOXNews.com
Posts Tagged: Firms
Politico’s Byers Drags Romney, 13 Years After Leaving Bain Capital, Into a Story About Firm’s Involvement in Layoffs at Time
Someone needs to tell Dylan Byers at the Politico that the 2012 presidential smear campaign is over, and their guy won. Byers seems not to have gotten the memo, and is still engaged in associating Mitt Romney with the firm he left in 1999 any time it has involvement in decisions relating to layoffs. In… Read more »
Chinese firms and Gulf sheiks are snatching up farmland worldwide. Why?
The world’s population is soaring past 7 billion. Food prices keep spiking every few years. Freshwater supplies in plenty of areas are dwindling. And so, in response, a slew of countries and investors — from Chinese state corporations to Gulf sheiks to Wall Street firms — have started buying up farmland overseas, in an apparent… Read more »
US taxpayers giving $4B to foreign firms for green energy projects, study says
U.S. taxpayers have forked over nearly $ 4 billion to foreign-owned companies as part of a stimulus program that pays cash grants to green-energy firms, according to a newly released congressional report. Source: FOXNews.com