Five reasons why they should test autonomous cars in Ontario

Did I say five? I meant six… Paul Leroux It was late and I needed to get home. So I shut down my laptop, bundled myself in a warm jacket, a...

Walmart overseas: why so poor a performance?

Mike Smitka Let me follow up on my previous post on Walmart's strategic challenges. There I noted that Walmart has been singularly unsuc...

The Economics of Strategy: Walmart's Senescense

Michael Smitka Washington and Lee University October 22, 2015 WREL Update Today there's no "news" – nothing in the latest econ...

ADAS: The ecosystem's next frontier

At DevCon last week, Renesas showcased their ADAS concept vehicle. It was just what you would expect from an advanced demonstration, combini...

The Subaru Levorg debuts in Southeast Asia

Subaru has launched the Levorg for the Southeast Asian market in Taipei this week. The launched featured world renowned precision driver R...

TPP and Inflation: Weekly News

Mike Smitka, Washington and Lee University First, Wednesday Oct 14 and Thursday Oct 15 (today, but after taping my radio segment) saw the re...

What does a decades-old thought experiment have to do with self-driving cars?

Paul Leroux Last week, I discussed, ever so briefly, some ethical issues raised by autonomous vehicles — including the argument that introd...

Employment and Dynamic Scoring

Mike Smitka Economics, Washington and Lee University Here are quick notes on my WREL Lexington AM 1450 radio show of October 8, 2015. There...

The ethics of robot cars

“By midcentury, the penetration of autonomous vehicles... could ultimately cause vehicle crashes in the U.S. to fall from second to ninth pl...

Can tax cuts pay for themselves?

The assorted Republican hopefuls are now trotting out pieces of policy platforms. Most of them aren't very good working with media. Then...