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Mazda’s Having Problems Also

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Yesterday's dead pool article mentioned the dire straits Mitsubishi's in but wait - there's more. Mazda Motor Corp.'s operating profit tumbled 71 percent in the latest quarter, as swinging foreign exchange rates...

On With Tom Woods 2/1/17

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Here's the audio of my talk with Tom Woods, whom most of you probably know. We talked about what Trump may do to brighten the outlook for the car industry and...

Bad News For GM

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Maybe it's blowback from the Diversity Debacle? Big declines for the Buick brand and the Chevrolet Malibu pushed General Motors’ U.S. sales down 3.8 percent in January. It marked the first time that...

A Step Back Toward ePrivacy

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Most things electronic get updated at least every couple of years. But one of the main laws governing electronic privacy protections hasn't been updated since . . . 1986. Yes, really. Unfortunately. That law...

Tesla Not So “Safe,” According to Uncle

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Well, well. The Tesla Model S fell short of earning the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s 2017 Top Safety Pick+ award. For a vehicle to qualify for the Top Safety Pick award, IIHS...

On Air With Bob Bird in Alaska 1/30/17

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Here's the audio from my talk Wednesday evening with Bob Bird in Alaska:    01-30-2017 - BIRD'S EYE VIEW - 5PM.mp3  

Mitsubishi’s Death Dive

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You can almost hear the scream of the engine as the plane dives toward the flight deck in a vertical death dive... Banzai! Mitsubishi Motor Corp.'s operating profit tumbled 81 percent in...

Trump Fires Termagant

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Washington just got a little less ugly. President Trump has fired Obama's acting attorney general, Sally Yates, over her refusal to enforce the travel/immigration restrictions the new president put into place. Naturally,...

SkyDiving Without a Parachute

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Given how expensive traffic tickets are, it’s amazing so many people won’t buy a good radar detector. Unlike the car you’re driving, it actually is an investment - and not just...

Space Cronyism

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Critics of the Apollo program argued it was extravagantly wasteful, that the money spent sending men to the Moon could have been put to better use here on Earth. Maybe so. But at...
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