…below the 2025 level. * In particular, the 211,289 renewing enrollees who passively auto-re-enrolled may react to sticker shock. (Conversely, a very sharp spike in active re-enrollments, from 85,177 in…

…than half of its production. China produces so much in part because every province wants to be an automotive manufacturing hub. The country has over a hundred automotive brands, most…

…operating costs and profits of insurers, is unlikely to keep falling. The auto insurance index, which accounts for 3.4% of the core index, was flat in March. This index had…

…There are 29,900 fewer auto manufacturing jobs and 18,000 fewer wood manufacturing jobs. Both sectors are what the president has tried to protect with trade barriers. New, higher tariffs on…

…also has been a big rise in credit card and auto loan delinquencies.) Just to be clear on the reason for my fondness for the McDonalds meter, we have a…

…EconoFact Chat episode from November 2025, “Assessing the Impact of the ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs,” Chad Bown illustrates this through auto industry examples involving rules-of-origin requirements, bilateral negotiations, and new industry-specific…

In Part 3 of this series, I wondered a couple of things. – With the vehicle/1000 people number in the range of 825 to 845 since 2004, is the market…

In private communication, Roger Chittum got me thinking about the vehicle component of gasoline consumption. I’m going focus on the gross vehicle numbers, and not get too deeply into the…

I made a mistake in my original post. Graph 4 in that post was based on the wrong data set. As Roger Chittum pointed out in comments, that graph only…

Yesterday, Karl Smith posted on Oil and the Structural Recession. This seems to be one of Karl’s thinking-out-loud posts, with more questions than answers, some convoluted reasoning, and a conclusion…