…victory and stop their auto-pilot restraining actions before they completely flatten or invert the yield curve. While I may agree with the policy recommendation, I’m not a fan of the…

…throughout much of the 1990’s. The recent increase in oil and gasoline prices has led to a decline in the demand for larger and faster automobiles. But then I’m channeling…

…and Norihiko Shirouzu’s Wall Street Journal article on July 25, 2001 was entitled “Car-Lease Losses Are Putting Banks’ Earnings Into Reverse” and noted: Banks poured money into auto leases during…

The nation’s major lenders (esp. the big credit card issuers and auto finance companies) will reap significant returns on the investments that they have made in the form of campaign…

…some banks’ reserve requirements and advising banks to restrict lending in “hot” sectors, including auto, steel, cement, aluminum and real estate… Data released earlier this month showed the central bank’s…

…2002. The BEA report notes that personal spending continued to grow at a fast pace in July, however, primarily driven by auto sales. Together the income and spending data conspired…

…selected bits of information that I’ve drawn from the report: – Since the tariffs caused the price of their biggest input (steel) to go up, steel-consuming firms, such as auto…

…the recovery will be led by exports, not by domestic demand, and what will fuel that is lower wages–he doesn’t say that, but that’s the model created in the auto…

…Jobs First study commissioned by the United Auto Workers unearths a new example of this, which I believe is the largest underestimate ever: Nissan in Mississippi. When Nissan announced in…

…wages (so either workers are indifferent between working in an auto plant and a McDonalds or McDonald’s workers lack some skill needed to assemble autos). This assumption is absolutely standard…