David Cole
David Cole
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It seems as if GM and Ford are in a real horse race to marry cars and technology,
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That may mean the closing of a couple of more plants.
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It's sort of like giving yourself a great big garage.
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It's sort of a critical ingredient. It's like when you mix eight or 10 chemicals and nothing happens. Then you drop this in and all of a sudden, boom, you get an explosion.
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Every one of the Big Three faces a problem right now of about $2,000 to $2,500 per vehicle produced cost disadvantage. If that plays out over time, they're all dead. It's change or die. Everything is driven by a profitable business. If you can't be profitable, you can't be in business. That is, I think, recognition that everybody is aware of.
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The average costs of an active employee is $130,000 a year, and the average cost for a retiree before Medicare is about $50,000. The savings are enormous.
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The bad news certainly isn't going to end for a while.
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The auto industry of the future will be a younger and more educated workforce. High-paying jobs for educated workers are not going away.
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It may have been no big thing for Sony to give Microsoft one holiday period on the shelves to itself. But you're going to be sorely testing that loyal hardcore audience if it goes to two.
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It's a very competitive labor environment today. That's not going to change.
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It's becoming a lot bigger than it could have been. I think the union's intention was to get this over.
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It's becoming a lot bigger than it could have been, ... I think the union's intention was to get this over.
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It's just an extension of the brand. And branding your product with music makes it look cool to the gamer.
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It's a big high-stakes craps game we're in and the outcome is very much unknown.