Auto Bailout Watch

—By Kevin Drum

| Tue Jan. 20, 2009 10:39 AM PST

AUTO BAILOUT WATCH....The French government plans to bail out Renault and Peugeot-Citroen to the tune of $7-8 billion or so. By the time this is all over, will there be a car company in the world that hasn't hoovered up a few billion taxpayer dollars?

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