http://clawback.org/2009/01/23/cooper-tire%e2%80%99s-novel-approach-to-subsidy-competition-pay-to-survive/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://clawback.org/2009/01/23/cooper-tire%e2%80%99s-novel-approach-to-subsidy-competition-pay-to-survive/#comment-736 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:52:49 +0000 http://clawback.org/?p=573#comment-736 Yet another sordid tale of whipsawing; nothing really “novel” about it that I can see. General Motors did the same thing to Arlington, TX, and Ypsilanti, MI, that resulted in an important though ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit after GM shut the Ypsilanti plant. Union concessions and subsidies were the currency of that competition as well.

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