AMERICAN politicians have told the big three car makers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - that if they want $US25billion ($A38.6billion) in emergency loans, they must agree to concentrate on building up US jobs, and there will be limits on overseas investment.
FROM the US rescue of its troubled savings and loan sector two decades ago to Mexico's 1994 banking crisis, bail-outs have a history of taking time before the system is stabilised.