{"id":1690,"date":"2009-11-02T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2009-11-02T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T14:21:00","slug":"ford-reaps-financial-benefit-from-not-joining-government-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/ford-reaps-financial-benefit-from-not-joining-government-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford reaps financial benefit from not joining Government Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/business\/03auto.html?_r=1&#038;src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> has the unexpectedly positive financial news from Ford:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ford Motor Company on Monday posted a surprise third-quarter profit of $997 million and said it had its first profitable quarter in North America in more than four years.<\/p>\n<p>The carmaker also said it increased its cash reserves by $2.8 billion during the quarter, ending September with $23.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>For all of 2009, Ford, the only Detroit automaker to avoid bankruptcy this year, has had a profit of more than $1.8 billion. It reported $834 million of income in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the unexpectedly positive financial news from Ford: The Ford Motor Company on Monday posted a surprise third-quarter profit of $997 million and said it had its first profitable quarter in North America in more than four years. The carmaker also said it increased its cash reserves by $2.8 billion during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[111,71,278],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-debt","tag-governmentmotors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}