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These daily blogs have taught me something about business. In business you will have to contribute to your business everyday. If you are a manager you must be organized with your work. I believe that when you have your own business or manage one, you will have to check up on it and contribute to it everyday. This belief is through the direct expeirence I had had with these daily blogs. If you do not contribute to your business every day, it will reflect on your results.

$14 Billion

Congress is giving the big three $14 billion. The conflict is that they are going out of business and might file for bankruptcy. To solve the problem congress is allowing them a loan for $14 billion. It can help the 2.5 million jobs for a few more months. This $14 billion loan might be there last chance so they better use it wisely.

NY1 For Kids

N.Y.1 has a segment for kids. In this segment they have a little kid giving a brief summary about a book they read. They believe that this will incourage kids to read more, through the experience of other channels. This is a good idea but I don't think many children even think about going into the news channel.

Katherine McIntosh

Katherine McIntosh lived through 2 great depressions. She was the little girl in the picture called A Migrant Mother in 1936. She lived through one recession and says she believes she can make it through this one. Her belief is based on the direct experience of her first one.

United Homeless Organization

There has been lying about were money is going in the stteets of New York. There are some homeless people with jugs of emtpy water and table stands. They are taking the money for themselves. These homless people believed if people don't ask where it's going dont't tell them. Through there expierence homeless people get money from people if they ask for it. Especially if they look somewhat presentable.

Obama Health care discussion

Obama wants to hear peoples views and opinions on health plans. He believes he needs to hear all the American peoples Voices. He expects to find answers to what people ask and do his job as best as possible.

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Recent Poll

There was a recent poll onaol.comabout the automarket bailout. 46% of people thought they should not get a bailout. The 3 automakers aren't having a positive influence on the economy or the country.

Valkyrie On Christmas?

Valkrie is a movie about Hitler and thi plans. This movie is coming out on Christmas. I don't think that release date is the smartest thing to do. Even though there are many who don't celebrate Christmas, They might make more money on another date. I don't see people going to see a Hitler Movie on Christmas.

Kids Getting Paid For School

Dr. Roland G. Fryer thinks that giving money to students encourage higher grades. They also are giving them financial classes to teach them what to do with the money. I don't Belive this is a good idea, because we shouldn't be rewarded on what we already should be doing.

Black Friday Sales Increase

Sales for the day was $10.7 biliion. That was an increase from the year before of 3%. It seems that companies and managers are doing there jobs. Even though the country is worst than it was last year, at least sales were up this year. Hopefully these companies will continue with there agrresive promotional strategies and increase there gross profits.

Walmart Worker Killed

If they would have predict how wild the crowd was they could have avoided it. The crowd of people waiting on a line from the morning before were crazy to get in. A Walmart Worker was opening the doors as a the rush of people came and trampled him. If they would have predicted the crowd of peopel, they would have managed to avoid the disaster.

Congress Wants an Effort From Auto Makers

Congress said they were unimpressed by automakers. Congress wants to see plans from automakers by Dec. 2. They dont think a bailout will work, because they have been in denial for 3 decades. Automakers better think fast about what there are going to do.

Black Friday Sales

128 million Americans say there going to shop Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is said to be a decrease from last year. The economy is having a negative influence on the holidays.

Conflict For L.A.P.D.

An officer named Juan Abel Escalante was killed in early August. The conflict trigger was that he was killed, and they cannot find who did it. To solve the problem they are giving out $95,000 to help find out who commited the crime. It is a competetive conflict because they are trying to negotiate with the poepl who know what hapenned.

New Credit Crisis Plan

Henry Paulson is planning to use more money. He wants to blast through the blockage of the credit problems in the country. He is trying to do everything in his power to help the country. He might actually be harming the country unless he and his poeple really know what they are doing.

Taxpayers money for $200 million of unapproved drugs

The government has been buying $200 million of unapproved drugs. From 2004-2007 about 100 unapproved drugs were bought. There were also some deaths linked to these unapproved drugs. The drugs that were bought were mostly common colds and pain.

Citibank Bailout

The government is planning on giving money to one of the biggest banks Citibank. Citibank has alot of bad mortgage investments. They have laid off 53 thousands people but was still unsucessful. The Government wants to bail them out and have ownership in the company.

Changes in Pricing

Now that Christmas is about a month away, stores have sales going on. This a strategic change that most companies like to do. You find yourself buying more. Spending more money than you normally would just because everything is on sale.

Oil Drops 7%

Oil keeps dropping more and more. It has went down 7% to $49.62 a barrel. it is less than $50.00 a barrel. At this rate, there will be a reactive change in the numbers of automobiles in the streets.

Democrats Want A Strategic Change

Democrats are saying they do not want to give the auto industry $25 billion. They want to see that they aren't going to use this money poorly. Democrats want to see a conviencing plan before they let the auto industry see some light.

The Power of Youtube

Youtube has the power of letting a person put out videos. Allowing them to express themselves through it. Anyone in the world with internet access. Even the Presedent Elect Obama is putting out weekly videos. Every week he will inform people about what's going on and what his plans are.

Ex-Mayor Saves The Day

Anthony Williams former mayor of Washington D.C. stopped a robbery. The thief was about to rob a truck. the former mayor told the thief to put down the laptop he was about steal, and the thief recongized him. After Williams told him put it down, he actually listened and put it down and walked away.

Obama Influence in Gun sales

According CNN.com/crime, Bernie Conatser an owner of a gun store in Washington, gun sales have increased since Obama has been Elected. He says "I have been in business for 12 years, and I was here for Y2K, September 11, Katrina..." People are saying that Democratics will want to remove the right have a gun.

New Planets!

They released the first pictures of planets outside of the solar system. With NASA technology they discovered 4 new planets orbiting around starts. We might be able to discover completely new things in time with the technology.

Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly

Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly was the first black woman to be a mayor of a major city. she was the mayor of Washington D.C. from 1991 to 1995.

$700 Billion

The Bush administration is still going foward with the $700 billion rescue. Henry Paulson is getting alot of critisim for it, but still continues to work on it. Obama asked bush to start on giving Gm $25 billion to save to company.

November 8th

November 8th was my birthday. Birthdays have a positive influence on people. It can make some people look back at what they did and set goals for next year. The day after can also cause a hangover.

Obama Influence on the world

Kenya is where Obama's father is from. They were all cheering and running around with pictures of Obama. Other countries like France and Turkey showed support for Obama. The Prime minister of Turkey sent a letter to Obama sending support and congratulations to him.

Obama Elected

Obama Was official declared president last night. He won by a land slide. States that have been Republican for years have voted in the Democrat. Everyone was in the streets of New York were cheering as if it was a the Giants one the world series. That alone shows the positive influence he has on this country.

Commercial Paper Funding Facility

Most banks are still frozen when it comes to lending money. People are finding it hard to finiance and refaniance. The federal reserve has the power to put out programs to help business in need of cash. Commercial Paper Funding Facility is a program, that is lowering interest rates, to provide more cash for businesses.

C.N.N. turns down Obama's offer and donates to McCain

Obama is paying as many channels as he can to win his votes on tuesday and show Americans what paople are going through. One channel turned him down. C.N.N. turned down Obama's offer of a half hour, and donanted it to Sen. McCain. Obviously C.N.N. is influenced by McCain and will vote Democrat.

CTS-V

Cadillacs are coming out with a new type of CTS. The CTS-V is a new vehicle that is being put out around November. With 556 HP It will be starting at 59,995!

Easy Credit Is Over

Banks aren't loaning money like they used to. According to an article ''U.S. consumers will find it much harder to get a credit card, and to carry large balances. Late fees will rise and lines of credit will be reined in. After years of buying homes with interest-only loans, or loans that allowed people to borrow more than the value of the home, substantial payments and downpayments will be required. Interest rates are also likely to rise.''
Credit is going to be a big problem in this country for a while. Banks are declining what are suppose to be approvals on houses and cars!

3 millionth GM Certified Used Sales Vehicle sold

GM Certified Used Sales Vehicle sold it 3 millionth car. It was a silver 2008 Chevrolet Impala LS Flex-Fuel model. The customer was Patricia Kemper and they gve her great gifts. She recieved $3,000 of gas cards along with extra features for her car. GM made her a very happy customer.

Commercials for the Chevrolet Traverse

Mary J. Blige, famous R&B singer has been in Malibu commercials. Mary J. Blige, along with other celebrities, will be in commercials for the new Chevrolet Traverse. These commercials and ads will be out untill December of this year.

Economical 09 Malibu

The 2009 Chevy Malibu is very fuel efficient. It has a 4 cylinder engine. It runs at 33 MPG with a 6 speed transmition . Doing much better than most other sadans.

GM sales in September

In September Gm sold 284,300 units. That's the best GM has done this year. Chevorlet Malibu's sales went up 192%. Poniac Vibe increased 61%. Gm is selling more pick up trucks and other vechiles in general. Almost 2,000 hyrid cars were sold in September incuding; 636 hybrid Chevrolet Tahoe, 374 GMC Yukon and 91 Cadillac Escalade. GM did better in there 3 quater then the second. Hopefully the fourth quater will be an increase in sales again.

S&P 500

S&P 500 had its best day within 6 years. it went up more than half of what it went down on Monday. it went up 5.3% when the day before it went down 8.8%. Hopefully stocks and the economy will recover.

Dow Jones

The Dow Jones went down over 700 pionts today. The house of government representitives voted down on the $700 finiancial bailout package. the stock market hasn't been as bad since 9/11. It is now actually worse than ever.

J.D. Power

J.D. Power and Associates gave an award to GM's Oshawa Car Plant. The award was for hard work and dedication. in over 40 years they only gave that award to 22 companies. During the past 4 years they have recevied 4 gold and 2 silver awards

Henry Paulson

Henry Paulson was given power to take care of our economy. He is being given $700 billion and has decided to take care of our bad debt. he wants to buy it out and take care of our credit problems. This might be too fats of a decision and too much power for one man to make. He says there isn't much time but it still seems too fast of a decision.

Bus 200 Apunte GMC New plant in Flint Mich for 2010

GM is investing $370 million into a new plant of 4 cylinder engines. This plant will be in Flint Mich. They are going to build a 1.4 liter engine for the chevorlet cruize and also for the chevorlet volt. thoso are very small engines and will be extremely good on gas.

Chevorlet Orlando

The Orlando show car, making its world premiere at the Paris Motor Show in October, is a clear indication that Chevrolet is considering an expansion to its portfolio with a seven-seat multi-purpose vehicle with distinctive sport utility-like design, adaptable seating and impressive interior space. Based on the recently announced all-new Cruze compact sedan, the Orlando show car carries Chevrolet’s signature design language into a new vehicle segment. It explores the potential of combining the versatility attributes of a sport utility, a family van and a wagon in a single execution.

This will be an interesting type of vehicle. It might noy sell because of the gas prices. Putting out a new fuel efficient vehicle might work better.

Loan for anniversary

Speaking to reporters at GM's 100th anniversary celebration, Wagoner said the $25 billion in loans were approved last year as part of an energy bill and should now be funded to help the industry build next-generation automobiles and meet government fuel economy standards.

GM is working hard on making more fuel effiecent cars. Hopefully their loan will help them and they will be able to make more money and pay off that loan

Bus 200 Apunte GMC Hydrogen powered fuel cell

The EPA which is responsable for making a cleaner enviorment jioned forces with Gm. There New idea with the delivery of a Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell Electric vehicle they plan on making Hydrogen powered fuel cell. GM is taking advantage of gasoline prices and the enviornment to hopefully increase the way they produce andf make business.

Bus 200 Apunte GMC- GMs international management and cross-cultural competence

To succeed in the global market, General Motors finds that employees must come equipped with the talent, knowledge, and inclination to develop and maintain extensive cross-cultural contacts. A ruling proscribing the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions would dramatically reduce the diversity at our Nation's top institutions and thereby deprive the students who will become the corps of our Nation's business elite of the interracial and multicultural interactions in an academic setting that are so integral to their acquisition of cross-cultural skills.

This is a very important tactic that GM uses. Using the knowledge and talents of othre cultures and countries, and aplying it to thier own company.

BUS 200 Apunte Sales decrease for Ford

Shrugging off the sweet bait of huge savings, consumers avoided auto showrooms in droves last month - sending sales down by double digits as Detroit's long-running slump looks as if it could last another year.
Ford was hardest hit in the August showroom drought, with sales diving 26.5 percent from the prior August.
Ford marketing executive Jim Farley warned of bleaker months ahead "as weak economic conditions and the consumer credit crunch continues."

The ecomonmy is bad and is effecting GM's sales. The gas prices and the economy are effecting Gm. Toyota is close to taking its place as the worlds biggest automotive company

Bus 200 Apunte GMC

General Motors was formed in the year 1908 in Flint Michigan. It was founded by William C. Durant. Grabowsky Rapid Motor Vehicle Company joined them in the year 1909. GM quickly became one of the biggest automobile company in the world. They got the name GMC Trucks in the year 1912 in a New York auto show. General Motors was formed 1908 in Flint Michigan and and has about 284,000 people working for them around the world. GM's global headquarters is the Renaissance Center located in Detroit, Michigan, USA, They currently manufacture their cars and trucks in 35 different countries.