…of the onus on Detroit residents–for re-electing someone labelled “ineffective” as mayor, for instituting what Samuelson calls “costly” public employee pensions, and impliedly, for causing white flight (in which most…

…brought up as reducing deaths during a lockdown/recession are auto deaths and work-related deaths. It is probably true that we have seen some reductions of those in the US in…

…Inflation in Auto Insurance Likely to Slow The index for auto insurance rose 2.6 percent in March, accounting for 0.07 percentage points of the March rise in the overall CPI…

…12:01 am ET on Saturday, most auto part imports will come with a 25% import tax. “The previous auto tariffs left US-made cars untouched. Not anymore. Not a single of…

…if the short-term “profit” was a good long-term strategy: Some large U.S. banks would have stronger capital bases to better deal with today’s market stresses had regulators not relaxed bailout…

Washington Post has an article on bailout oversight. In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s…

…Bad bankers ? Bernanke and Paulson have been arguing that they have to entice banks into agreeing to a bailout. Huh ? Could it be that the banks in question…

…from free-market conservatives to Senator Gary Hart, then a rising Democrat — were making similar arguments three decades ago. Instead, the bailout and import quotas fooled the automakers into thinking…

…to various operatives to secure a $1 billion legislative bailout for two unprofitable Ohio nuclear plants operated by a controlled subsidiary called FirstEnergy Solutions. The Akron-based corporation and CEO Chuck…

…throat…. A bailout of A.I.G. is really a bailout of its trading partners — which essentially constitutes the entire Western banking system. [edits mine*] By the way, Joe, Yves, citing…