Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway buys auto retailer VT Inc.

From Slate Magazine: " Warren Buffett's Latest Deal Has Officially Made Car Dealerships Cool " I don't think so. I have...

Ford Poised to Realize an Upturn in Margins?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2538735-is-ford-on-the-cusp-of-an-upturn-in-margins?app=1&uprof=53 A good piece from Seeking Alpha on ...

In For The Long Haul

The original for this post is at TheTruthAboutCars.com, which in turn draws upon a post by Alexander Dawejko done for my Economics 244 cou...

Does Car Racing Make Cents?

Here is a post that draws upon questions posed by students that appears on the Economics 244 Auto Industry blog . However, instead of postin...

Interest rates, inflation and growth

I go through US data periodically for a weekly radio show on W3Z - WREL in Lexington, Virginia. Unfortunately they don't stream their lo...

Who is Number One?

Auto sales are not the only measure to assess an auto OEM's relative health. This piece from the Detroit Bureau lays it out: GM slid ...

Auto Finance Sub Prime Bubble?

I don't think so. For some reason, the New York times jumped on an Equifax report, cherry picked data to suit a sensationalistic agenda...