Posts Tagged ‘ cars ’

Oil Prices Will End the Futility Economy

Jan 5th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Oil
On the first business day of the new year and oil traded above $80 a barrel, which means the price has re-entered the danger zone where it can crush industrial economies. This is a central element of the predicament we find ourselves in. The US economy is essentially a Happy ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Oil | 36 comments


Cars, Wishes and the Apocalypse

Sep 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
In my larval, pre-blogging days, I always faced the back-to-school moment with abject dread.  It meant returning to a program of the most severe, mind-numbing regimentation in the ghastly New York City public schools after a summer of idyllic unreality in the New Hampshire woods, where I went to a ...read more

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Buy an Economy Car and Save Money on Gas? Not Hardly.

Jun 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
As has already been noted so eloquently by Linda Traynham, the current Cash For Clunkers bill that wended its pathetic way thru what currently passes for the United States Congress and now requires nothing more than Obama's signature to become law, is designed for exactly one thing.  Or two, if ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 25 comments


Leave Our Cars Alone

Jun 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
THAT does it.  This time the government has gone too far. If there is one thing Americans will fight to the last ditch over it is our beloved automobiles.  Most of us won't use mass transit, we won't carpool, we won't walk, and we won't ride bicycles. The new ukase that DC ...read more

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Round and Round GM Goes

Jun 10th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Round and round GM goes and where she stops, nobody knows.  Even a cursory examination of the various news reports, on the net at MSNBC or through the spoon-feeding of NBC Nightly News that arrives via your nice, new, widescreen digital television set, reaches the conclusion that no one really ...read more

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Revolving Debt Cheap Energy Economy on Its Knees

Jun 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Macro Economics
Through the tangle of green shoots and sprouting mustard seeds, a certain nervous view persists that the arc of events is taking us to places unimaginable.  The collapse of General Motors and Chrysler signifies more than the collapse of US car manufacturing.  It spells the end of the motoring era ...read more

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Posted in Energy, Featured, Macro Economics | 4 comments


To The Union Bosses The Government-Mandated Profits

May 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
  Word has it that the experienced entrepreneurial minds in Washington and the ever-solicitous-of-their-membership Union leaders have cut a deal whereby the government gets 55% of Government Motors stock and the UAW gets 45% (another report was 50-50, but it doesn't matter which is correct for purposes of this discussion) in ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 8 comments