Posts Tagged: cars


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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 1st through November 2nd

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  • A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids | Nielsen Wire – SUMMARY: When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call. Parents are getting dialed in to the social media phenomenon and beginning to understand—and limit—how children use new media.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 29th through September 30th

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 2nd

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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 17th through July 19th

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  • 7 Reasons Why Housing Isn’t Bottoming Yet
  • Map: Where Americans Are Living Well – Forbes.com – This map tracks population, education, business and lifestyle factors across the country, using colors to indicate the magnitude and concentration of each factor. As a "heat map," the brighter red the color, the better the region's score. To select categories, use the pull down menu above Montana and North Dakota. The data key refreshes for each category and appears south of Mexico. Data provided by ZoomProspector.com, a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in corporate relocation. It evaluated areas of the country with fewer than 100,000 people. Due to differing regional definitions, we used the label "town" for any city, township, borough or Census-designated place with such populations.

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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 18th

  • The Simple Dollar » The Truth About Grocery Store Flyers – So, a few weeks ago, when I took a long look at the flyers from my grocery stores of choice, I happened to notice that some of the “big sales” listed in the flyer weren’t on sale at all. The price was exactly the same as what I usually paid.

    What gives? I did some research – calling and emailing a few people I know in the grocery business – and I came up with a few interesting facts about grocery store flyers.


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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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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 2nd

  • Pew Research Center: Public Knows Basic Facts About Financial Crisis – The latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey finds the American public reasonably well-informed about a number of basic facts pertaining to the current economic situation.
  • Top 10 remodeling projects for resale (Page 1 of 5) – Here's the lowdown on the top 10 home improvement projects by resale value from this 19th annual report, which is based on e-mail surveys returned from 2,188 members of the National Association of Realtors. In calculating costs, the report authors considered complete cost-to-construct figures (including labor, material, subtrade contractors and gross profit).

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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 1st


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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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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 9th

  • GOOD » Books Are the New Cars» – Another day, another imploding industry…
  • Economist’s View: “Capitalist Fools” – Was there any single decision which, had it been reversed, would have changed the course of history? … The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. … The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.
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