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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (268371)	1/30/2015 1:24:51 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541009

Tesla Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early. The Palo Alto, Calif., company said it wired in a $451.8 million payment to the government on Wednesday. The money, coupled with two prior payments, paid off a $465 million loan Tesla got from the Department of Energy loan in 2010 to foster development of advanced-technology vehicles. ADVERTISEMENT Tesla used money from a $968 million stock and note sale that closed Wednesday to repay the debt.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (268371)	1/30/2015 1:27:49 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541009

.re..private endeavor Private...????? Say What.....!!!!! Less than three years after receiving $10 billion in bailout money from American taxpayers, Goldman Sachs informed its employees recently that it will fire 1,000 workers in the United States and elsewhere, shifting their jobs to the cheaper Singaporean labor market. According to Fox Business, Goldman Sachs has quietly informed workers and lawmakers of its plan to outsource 1,000 jobs in an attempt to inoculate itself from the impending blowback: