Taylor guitars are sold in the US and Canada, as well as in over 60 countries, through more than 800 music retailers. As part of the Taylor brand strategy, dealers must provide customers with a “full Taylor experience”, stocking the full line of Taylor’s guitars. But stocking the full Taylor line presents a challenge to dealers: a guitar can take up to 6 months to sell from the time it arrives at a dealer, and consumers often ask for extended financing for such a large personal investment. Conversely, manufacturer’s terms typically require dealers to pay within 30 days. Taylor needed help providing inventory finance for stock purchases, and retail sales financing for customers, and turned to GE Capital for a solution in 2000. GE Capital offered Taylor a unified cash flow solution: Inventory Financing to help dealers acquire Taylor’s products for stocking their stores, and a Sales Finance Program to help the consumers fund their music product purchase. With Taylor taking care of the upfront inventory finance costs, GE Capital enabled the dealer to purchase the full range of Taylor guitars, matching the dealers’ turns to GE terms. Deb Barker, Relationship Executive for GE Capital Commercial Distribution Finance, and the music team, worked closely with Taylor Guitars designing programs and terms, to provide cash flow solutions during seasonal peaks and valleys. Taylor offers their dealers the total experience through the Taylor Guitars University, educating their dealers on …

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Alex talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman about the economy and other issues. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those years he owned his own brokerage firm. Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30000 subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10000 investors and brokers monthly directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week. theinternationalforecaster.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

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Alex talks about the economy with regular Friday guest, Bob Chapman. Bob became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30000 subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10000 investors and brokers monthly directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week. theinternationalforecaster.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

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The truth is that the chief executives of the Big Three automakers could have hitchhiked to Washington to beg for alms and they still would have been raked over the coals. But the fact that they came in their corporate jets was a bit much. What, they couldn’t have piled into a tricked-out Malibu and taken turns at the wheel? Richard Wagoner of General Motors, Robert Nardelli of Chrysler and Alan Mulally of Ford should begin the inevitable cost-cutting by firing their public relations consultants. They left Capitol Hill empty-handed, but they’re bound to get some kind of federal help, however grudging. In the end, I don’t think either George W. Bush or Barack Obama wants to be remembered as the president who lost the auto industry. Strings will be attached, solemn promises extracted, oaths signed in blood. At some point — I’m an eternal optimist — the wizards of Detroit might even come up with a car or two that Americans want to buy. If not, well, the Big Three execs can always come back to town — by more modest means of transportation, one hopes. If there’s anything beneficial in this predictable melodrama, it’s that contemplating a taxpayer-funded rescue of the auto industry might make Americans realize the extent to which their government already puts its big, fat thumb on the scales of free enterprise. The idea that the US economy is based on unfettered free markets is, and has long been, a cruel joke. It’s more of a joke now, arguably, than at any time since the …