James Early
speaker
617 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2009
last heard Nov 2009
James Early’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So GM, likewise, is going to cut between 1,000 and 3,000 dealerships.
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I think that's great.
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I don't think it's time to invest.
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It's just best to sit back and watch this Viking funeral pyre burn.
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And then once the ashes have cleared, we'll see what the auto industry looks like.
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Yeah, it's pretty funny because we were hearing now rumors that Prudential and Allstate are now refusing, not just saying they're refusing the TARP money, which is ironic.
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They applied for the TARP money.
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Now they're going to say, hey, things have changed.
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Maybe we don't like the conditions that were imposed.
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But there's an argument.
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There's a little bit of a straw man being set up here to beat down and make them look good.
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Bottom line with the insurance companies, stay away.
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They're very exposed to the capital markets, as stable as they are as companies.
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Their accounting is less cash-based than banks.
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They're regulated by states and not by the federal government, so it's going to be harder to impose some sort of one-size-fits-all solution here.
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The big risk, though, the big risk that the government is worried about is people making a run on the insurance companies to cash out their policies.
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And that could cause a lot of selling and hurt a lot of people.
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If you have a policy, you're fine, but I just wouldn't invest.
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Probably not.
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It's kind of ironic that we're using the big banks, sort of like the Big Brother's radioactive hand-me-downs for the little sibling, you know?
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