Category Archives: Auto industry

Oil Industry Worries About Peak Oil, as in Peak Demand

Some forward-thinking oil producers are worried about peak demand. Are their concerns warranted?

Will the Cost of a “Self-Driving Taxi” Really Be Sixty-Seven Cents ($0.67) a Mile? McKinsey’s Mysterious Footnote 17

A close reading of McKinsey’s report on self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Cars: How Badly Is the Technology Hyped?

Fully autonomous self-driving cars are many years away (“not in our lifetimes”). This has implications for how companies hyping them should be valued.

John Helmer: Did Hillary Clinton Take Money From Russia Oligarch Oleg Deripaska for a Favor in the General Motors-Opel Deal?

The curious tale of a Russian’s oligarch’s donation to the Clinton Foundation and his failed attempt to make an acquisition from General Motors.

Japan Throws Spanner into Brexit Negotiations

Multinationals just weighted in on the Brexit talks, in the form of a letter from Japan’s government.

Milwaukee Riots Round-up of “Systemic Causes”

Milwaukee riots and disinvestment, segregated housing, and law enforcement for profit

Another Nail in the Brexit Fantasy Coffin: Germany’s Car Makers Are Not Cowed

More evidence that the idea that the UK would have a negotiating advantage in Brexit talks is not well founded.

Is Gasoline Demand the Biggest Red Herring In Oil Markets?

Gasoline demand distracts from the more important subject that there is no fundamental reason for the current oil-price rally.

Uber Spends $100 Million to Save its Business Model, But It May Have Just Doomed It

I’ve written before at this august site about how Uber’s business model is to arbitrage state and federal law and replace a monopoly with a different monopoly. They obviously placed a high value on the arbitrage. How high? About $100 million.

Marshall Auerback: Donald Trump Understands the Nexus Between Trade and Immigration

By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.

Gaius Publius: When Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen

It’s easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class.

How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis

Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.

Flint: Let Them Drink Pollution?

Why the crisis in Flint, Michigan is about race and class, and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.

Capitalism – Not China – Is to Blame for the Current Global Economic Decline

Capitalism’s “recovery” now proceeds like another speeding train headed toward contradiction and catastrophe.

Mathew D. Rose: Hubris and Nemesis In Germany – Volkswagen, Refugees, and Football

Finding the common threads of Germany’s latest scandals.