Book Review: Nick Kachman's Paint it red

Mike Smitka Nicholas Kachman, GM: Paint it Red. Paperback. Buena Vista, VA: Mariner Publishing, 2015. Businesses fail all the time, indee...

China's Auto Industry Meltdown: The Last Shall Be First?

Mike Smitka, economics / Washington and Lee First to exit, that is. The rush to enter China has led to a market with too many players with ...

GM & Toyota: Of course they generate scandals!

I'm part of a discussion list on Japan [hosted by the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle] where comparisons of GM and Toyota n...

China: The Domestic and the Global Industry

In October 2013 sales in China reached 1.92 million units – see the China Auto Industry Association statistics page for details. That's...

BK + Five Years

Automotive News has a retrospective with brief quotes from various participants. Let me briefly mention three that I found thoughtful despi...

Super investor increases stake in General Motors

As feds are selling GM stock, Buffett is buying. DealersEdge Headlines Billionaire Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hatha...

What Does Mullaly Do?

Guest Blogger Blake Grady, edited from April 30, 2013 post on the Econ 244 site For those of us who do not have much of a business or even e...

Toyota as Number One

...remember Japan as Number One?... I'm just back from a meeting of the Japan Foundation American Advisory Board, where part of the disc...

Taking the Taxpayers out of General Motors

Ruggles – 12/26/2012 What many stockholders and taxpayers had feared, had Mitt Romney won the recent Presidential election, is coming true ...

The New Romney on GM

...loan guarantees would have given all the gains to Wall Street... David and I blogged in 2009 and then many times since on the so-called a...

GM and the Upcoming Presidential Election

by David Ruggles Amid the political turmoil of election season the rescue of the domestic auto industry by the George W. Bush administration...

Auto Bailout Redux: Warren Buffett

...it was Bush who bailed out GM -- Obama forced it into bankruptcy... Steve Rattner's blog points out a February 27th CNBS interview w...

The Industry in the face of the Euro's (partial) demise

...Eurxit and beyond... The Euro as currently configured is not sustainable, from both an economic and from a political perspective. Spain c...

Bad News for Toyota? – the Detroit 3 are Back

...the Detroit 3 are returning to the midsized-car segment... I'm tossing out back issues of Automotive News to try to fit into a corne...

Toyota vs GM: Guess Who's the Dinosaur!

...economic theory says dominant firms adopt strategies that undermine their dominance ... This isn't an enthusiast site, and I'm no...

Auto Bailout Redux and Mitt Romney

See the post on my parallel blog, US and Economics on Mitt Romney's puzzling statements on the government-led bankruptcy of GM and Chry...

Book Review of “All the Devils are Here The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis” “Hell is empty and all the devils...