THE WEEK THAT WAS: After the clunkers party, the sales hangover?

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After spending US$3bn of other people's money - that of the taxpayers of America - on the CARS, or 'cash for clunkers' incentives designed to wheedle people out of ancient, gas-guzzling antiques, it was little wonder the Department of Transportation was bullish over the circa-700,000 sales made through the scheme in barely three weeks. Full story...