NYFed's Bill Dudley Speech at VAE / VMI

Mike Smitka, Washington and Lee Tonight I had the opportunity – perhaps I should say privilege – of hearing Bill Dudley, President of the Fe...

"Kei" Cars in Japan: A "Galapagos" Sector?

Mike Smitka Under Japanese taxation, licensing and inspection systems there are 3 broad classes of cars (and light commercial vehicles): ful...

Peak Oil Revisited: Did I get anything right?

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University In 2014 I wrote on the arrival of peak oil. That now appears at best premature. So wha...

The Morgan EV3

Small British automaker raised a few eyebrows when it recently announced that it was making electric cars. They have released a teaser video...

Goodbye analog, hello digital

Since 2008, QNX has explored how digital instrument clusters will change the driving experience. Paul Leroux Quick: What do the Alfa Romeo 4...

The Nature of Economic Knowledge: Divergent vs Convergent

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University Discourse in economics presumes that knowledge is convergent: more empirical research ...

Happy Birthday BMW

Two days ago BMW celebrated a centenary. They are now focused on BMW’s vision for the future of mobility in the next 100 years. As part of t...

US Employment: Age-specific patterns of recovery

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University Here's another quick cut on what's been happening over the past decade. Prior ...

US Employment relative to Population Growth

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ Today's Employment Situation. Adding jobs isn't enough, because our population is ...

The US Market: How many brands, how many models?

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ Toyota will eliminate the Scion brand; Ford is withdrawing from Japan. In the US, Suzuki, ...

Trump: Time to flop, er, flip: an economic analysis

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ Trump has run a strategically brilliant campaign, playing the media to the hilt to speak t...