…the auto industry into a carbon copy of the PC industry! There is an underlying set of features & capabilities (the “chassis” offered by AMD or Intel) that incorporates various…

…the possibility that U.S. policy could turn against Japanese auto makers if local giants such as GM and Ford were to collapse. “Many people say the car industry wouldn’t revisit…

…success, given that it saved as many as 1.9 million jobs at GM, Chrysler and their suppliers. The auto bailouts were emergency initiatives. They were to stave off what was…

…employees and suppliers. The auto industry bailout orchestrated by the Obama administration posed the first challenge to that assumption. Now the unions at American airlines have taken another step in…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…been predicting that for months. His accounting strikes me as very odd. Last I hear, the total cost of bailouts (including GSEs, AIG, GM and Chrysler) was predicted to be…

…weekend Washington Post column that the auto bailout was a privatization of profits but a socialization of losses. The full post, which is at Annarborist, and is called I Beg…

…critical, while the bailout of the auto industry caused by the fact that the banks spent the money on acquisitions and executive pay instead of lending it, is not critical….

Last February, in the lead-up to the all-important Michigan primary, Romney wrote an op-ed piece in the Detroit News titled “U.S. autos bailout ‘was crony capitalism on a grand scale’.”…

…strong incentives for investment in Covid-19 testing and PPE production capacity Suppose that there are two actors, an industry and the government. The industry might be mask and glove producers…