Naked Capitalism has an article The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit on Detroit which I attempted to answer. No one cause can be assigned to answer what happened to Detroit since…

…sense that hidden weaknesses are coming into the light, because of the struggles in China, Brazil and the oil industry… and now we can add the auto industry. (Let me…

…increased numbers of both groups returned to the market place to buy automobiles. While the purchase of automobiles has increased for all 25 year old people, the numbers of college…

…A Piqua, Ohio company (“Piqua Auto Supply House”) also used a form of it in an advertisement. I consulted in Piqua in the eighties. A sleepy town along I75 having…

…Auto sales have peaked. Year-over-year change in non-farm employment is trending down. There are more signals that the business cycle is decaying into a contraction. Fischer believes that the Fed…

…job. As I have discussed before, such a figure far exceeds what a typical automobile assembly plant will receive, even though the latter creates far more, and better-paying, jobs than…

…Team, Eric Lipton, New York Times, today What? No steelworker? No auto-plant worker? Not even a family farmer? Might y’all have been had? Who’d a thunk? Bernie and Elizabeth to…

…living in poverty. The economy will adjust automatically to reabsorb workers displaced by automation; and there is no need for government intervention because government policy will lubricate the self-adjustment process….

…over 10,000 firms, including Toyota, “have either fled the state or reduced their investments.” Of course, Toyota has been replaced in its Fremont factory by Tesla, the most valuable auto…

…mostly for non-auto transportation systems in urban areas like Pittsburgh. When I continue to see commenators talking about how his infrastructure plan might stimulate the economy, I am not sure…