Mike Smitka As an economist, I avoid the prediction game. I am also wary of reading much into a single month's data. What an economist c...
Book Review: Nick Kachman's Paint it red
Mike Smitka Nicholas Kachman, GM: Paint it Red. Paperback. Buena Vista, VA: Mariner Publishing, 2015. Businesses fail all the time, indee...
Senin, 25 Juli 2016
battery electric vehicles
cash burn
distribution
House of Cards
inventory
Nissan Leaf
Renault Clio
tesla
Clearing the Smoke on Tesla Deux
Mike Smitka While Tesla the car company continues to burn through cash, Elon Musk is touting a capital-hungry vision of integration of his m...
Jumat, 01 Juli 2016
autonomous vehicles
battery electric vehicles
electric cars
mobility 2.0
R&D
technology
tesla
BEVs, AVs, Mobility 2.0: Disrupters?
Michael Smitka, Professor of Economics, Washington and Lee University Judge, Automotive News supplier PACE Awards The media are enamored of ...
Rabu, 04 Mei 2016
agglomeration
automotive industry
detroit
entrepreneurship
innovation
start-ups
venture capital
When Detroit looked like Silicon Valley
Mike Smitka Autos are today a hi-tech industry; more on that in subsequent posts. The same was true circa 1900. A quick window on the contem...
Another fracking Saudi conspiracy story, or Chapter 11 is a marvelous invention
Mike Smitka Let me revisit a topic that matters a lot to the auto industry, what's happening in the energy sector. Frank Gaffney, of th...
Thank you Baby Boomers: The new norm is 60,000 jobs
Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University A simple projection from pre-Great-Recession levels suggests we need 150,000 new jobs ...
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