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Nortongate
The online rumors and claims started around two years ago: all was apparently not well with Stuart Garner’s newly re-incarnated Norton…. Sections of the motorcycle media and consumer organizations were approached by unhappy customers, detailing their grievances. A UK bike builder published details of his own unhappy relationship with Norton on his website, and other complaints popped up in a...
23 August 2012
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Harley’s secret $2.3 billion taxpayer bailout
According to a new disclosure by the Federal Reserve, Harley-Davidson was given a previously secret $2.3 billion bailout during the fall of 2008 and winter of 2009. We’ve previously reported that Harley borrowed nearly $1 billion in emergency operating capital from Warren Buffett at 15 percent interest during the same period and has since upped that amount to nearly $2 billion from other lenders...
02 December 2010