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Zero Percent!

GM is making a big push to increase sales before the end of the year. And the way they’re going to do it is with zero percent loans on their most popular SUV’s. That’s right, no interest for up to 60 months on 2008 Chevrolet TrailBlazers, GMC Envoy and Saab 9-7X sport utility vehicles. This offer is also being offered on a few 2009 vehicles as well, but I’m nit sure which ones as of yet. And if your wondering or ask yourself how GMAC is able to do this, well very simply, your tax dollars. That’s right, just a week ago GMAC was given a bank holding company status, which made them qualify for government funding. And the amount of government funding they took was $5 billion. So now we want GMAC and other automakers to stay afloat, because if they fail we lose or money. You gotta love America; we do some crazy things hear.

Online Retailer!

This holiday season was great for online retailers. Instead of people running to the malls they stayed home. I reading that a few online retailers had double digit percent increase over last year. And shopping at the malls where down a few percent. So I would have to say that it wasn’t as bad as a lot of analysts thought it was going to be. And most of the online sales where for things like the Nintendo Wii game console and LCD HDTV’s. It seems that you can purchase just about anything online these days, even things like the Toshiba Satellite at Buy.com. The online retailer Buy.com offers a lot of goods at reasonable prices. If you purchased online this year I would be willing to bet that you will be doing it again soon. This holiday season there was a lot of first time online shoppers. And the main reason for them purchasing online was because they where looking for deals. And now that they found a new way to buy things they’re saying good-by to the malls.

Direct Marketing!

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Toyota Stalled!

Its finally happened, Toyota Motor has stalled in its growth. I was just reading that Toyota has never filed an operating loss report since they started keeping reports on it. I read that it dates back to 1941. This just shows that every business out there is taking hits like this due to the recession. I can’t think of any companies in the world that are really growing at this point, well maybe Wal-Mart and the Dollar Stores. And even their not growing like they should be. Anyway, Toyota has finally been knocked off their high horse, and what they do to recover could make all the difference. I guess at lease for now they haven’t asked our Government for any bailout money yet. I don’t know if they even could, considering their main offices are in Japan. They do produce a lot of cars and trucks in the United States, so I really don’t know, but I don’t think they could. What I do know is that it’s time for Ford Motor to show it’s true colors and get through this recession without taking one cent of bailout money. If they can do that they will become the leading Automakers. So I will be pulling for Ford!