Clunkertown, USA
4 August 2009
By now everyone has heard of the Cash For Clunkers program. Buying America's assets and scrapping them in order to spend money borrowed from our g…
What Non-Interference Really Looks Like
26 July 2009
Several months ago when the government decided to bail out incompetence and distort free market accountability for poor business decisions by effectiv…
So You Want to Buy an American Car?
5 July 2009
Thanks to Pete over at Shmula for shooting me this tidbit. If you take a look at all cars sold in the U.S. and ranked them by domestic content... part…
A Check on My Undesired Investment
4 July 2009
A few months ago I, along with about 200 million others, was forced to invest in a failed company. Some people still think that failure cannot be allo…
Saturn, Penske, and 5S
7 June 2009
Over the last couple days word has leaked out that the Penske auto group will be purchasing the Saturn brand from GM. Saturn was originally supposed t…
Taking the "Gen" out of "Genchi Genbutsu"
30 March 2009
Well, GM is in the news again, this time for refusing to cancel its program that gives a company car and company-paid gas for about 8,000 white-collar…
Back to Basics at Toyota
24 February 2009
The first statement in yesterday's Wall Street Journal article summarized it well: Toyota Motor Corp.'s incoming president, Akio Toyoda, has…
Mr. Bloom to the Rescue?
17 February 2009
Yesterday at 5pm GM and Chrysler submitted their turnaround plans required as a result of accepting a partial bailout (oh, sorry, "loans") f…