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Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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  • FORTUNE MAGAZINE – informational images –
  • Born Poor? | Santa Fe Reporter – Bowles’ most recent paper, published in the October 2009 issue of Science, was a huge project with 25 collaborators. It examines how wealth is transferred from parents to children in hunter-gatherer societies versus agricultural societies.
    That might seem distant from the busy unemployment offices on Guadalupe Street. But everyone can relate to his chosen subject: inequality. He studies the economic differences between people with the same discipline that Jane Goodall studies chimpanzees or Stephen Hawking studies the cosmos.
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Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 21st through December 26th

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  • why local first | Local First – This question is best answered by Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local. "Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It Means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."
Automobiles / Business / Consumer Behavior / Economics — 2 Comments
31
May 09

No more new car smell?

The end of the new-car consumption culture is a cyclical problem, not a secular trend. It is also effecting the entire industry, and not just the domestics.

I think (based on first hand observation) that manufacturers “pulled ahead” future sales post-9/11.  Combine that with trends away from leasing (indirectly related to unemployment and the loss of residual insurance), the decline in miles driven, the collapse of teen drivers, high gasoline prices, a trend towards longer warranties, longer-term financing, decline in purchases of higher-profit SUVs, and a record existing car-to-driver ratio means a below average sales trend.

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May 09

Daily Links for May 17th

Automobiles / Business / Economics — 1 Comment
14
May 09

Chrysler to be 800-dealerships lighter

It’s official – Chrysler is looking to shed nearly 800 dealers.

The auto dealers have an extremely strong lobbying arm, but mostly at the state level.  You can rest assured that if 100 new car dealers (and their promises of campaign contributions) appear before Congress, there will be some sort of common-sense-defying bailout to the dealers with the pretense of “saving Main Street”.

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Mar 09

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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 12th through March 13th

  • Small Car, Big Shadow — The American, A Magazine of Ideas – Throughout the 1950s Romney inveighed against “dinosaur” size cars. He popularized the phrase “gas guzzler” (at a time when gasoline was about a quarter a gallon!) and he brilliantly finessed the American public’s perceived negative impression of small cars by calling his Ramblers “compacts.” By 1959 the public was at last paying attention. The Nash name (and Hudson’s too) had by then been relegated to the scrap heap of automotive history. But the original 1950 Rambler had become a pop culture icon thanks to a song called “Beep, Beep.” Sung by a now forgotten group called the Playmates, it had made the charts in late 1958 with its whimsical tale of a Cadillac driver who spots a “little Nash Rambler” in his rearview mirror.
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 17th through February 18th

  • Why the Republican Party Must Die – Generational Theft and End of Republicans – Esquire – So now all taxes are socialism and any kind of deficit spending is generational theft? This is just crazy talk. But we're used to crazy talk from fringy Republicans. Either they're trying to convince us that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs or they're insisting that 99 percent of the world's scientists are wrong about global warming — and that they have a Professor of Dentistry at Oral Roberts University who can prove it. That you can pay down the deficit by cutting taxes. That the God of Love who embraced lepers and prostitutes is really the God of Gay-Bashing. It's almost hilarious the things these guys come up with. And now they want us to take their economic ideas seriously.
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Jan 09

Daily Links for January 27th

  • Auto Dealerships Prepare for Shakeout – WSJ.com – Thousands of dealer-franchisees are threatened with losing their businesses in coming months amid falling sales and uncertainty over the future of Detroit's Big Three auto makers and their many brands.

    Auditing firm Grant Thornton LLP's Detroit office predicts that 3,800 of all of the country's 20,000 dealerships would need to close to maintain sales per dealer at last year's level. General Motors Corp. alone forecasts paring at least 1,700, or about a fourth, of its dealers by 2012 as it contemplates a restructuring.

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