…led mostly by used vehicle prices and deceleration in new vehicle prices. Consumption expenditure on automobiles has not seen a meaningful change, and the persistence of auto demand while prices…

…Whole Foods. As recently as the fall, middle-schoolers made Fruit of the Loom socks in Alabama. In Michigan, children make auto parts used by Ford and General Motors. The number of…

…day after President Joe Biden is set to visit a United Auto Workers picket line in Wayne County.” Wait, tell me about this Macomb county automotive supplier that has striking…

…automotive clubs, and others who banded together to promote automobile use, calling themselves “motordom.” On the other side of the debate, groups including, at various points, the police, pedestrians, women,…

…(UAW) union president Shawn Fain in response to the claim of the Trump campaign that Trump’s “bloodbath” statement of last Saturday was about the auto industry. Fain is also a…

…things were generally finished goods. Now, so much of the supply chain is so-called intermediate goods: parts that become parts of other parts. Famously, we know that a single auto…

…competitiveness.” Labor costs in Germany are the highest in Europe, according to an analysis by the German Association of the Automotive Industry. A German auto worker cost roughly €62 an…

…of Detroit’s profits. Automakers, for their part, have insisted that emergent pedestrian detection technology will negate any danger from car bloat (a term I use to describe the ongoing expansion of automobiles)….

…credit scores of newly originating auto loan and mortgage borrowers. Two-thirds of newly originated mortgages went to borrowers with credit scores above 760, while the share of auto loans opened by…

…solid. From the NY Fed: Credit quality of newly originated loans edged up slightly, with some improvements in the credit scores of newly originating auto loan and mortgage borrowers. Two-thirds…