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Unions Trashing Consumers Again

Reuters reported on July 7 that the Obama administration was probably not going to "name China a currency manipulator." Various Senators, Congresspersons, and union representatives have been complaining for years that the Chinese government keeps its c...		 Jul 12, 10 Will Offensicht 0 0

What Price for Jobs? 1

Although there are a few signs that unemployment may have peaked - the Wall Street Journal says that about 162,000 more people were hired than were laid off in March - the way back to former employment levels will be long, hard, and slow. Knowing what i...		 Apr 6, 10 Will Offensicht 0 11

Decline in America's Factories

Why is American manufacturing in the sorry, sad shape it's in? About a year ago some associates and I came up with an idea for a product to be manufactured here in the good old US of A. We drew up our prototype requirements and started searching for ...		 Apr 2, 10 Fennoman 0 17

The Government-Assisted Productivity Scam

From right after World War II until the mid-sixties, American manufacturing firms ruled the world. There were no Japanese cars on American roads and very few foreign cars of any kind until the late 1960's. A major reason our firms did so well was tha...		 Apr 1, 10 Will Offensicht 0 4

Businessmen Take Their Marbles and Go Home

As federal stimulus money runs out, the recession is finally beginning to bite state and local governments. The New York Times is bleating about a "ruinous fiscal meltdown" in state finances: In the first two months of this year, state and local go...		 Mar 24, 10 Will Offensicht 0 5

The Toyota Circus and Fly By Wire

As Obama thrashes around for a way to distract American voters from his many ongoing failures, poor Toyota has found itself cast as the Villain of the Week. It doesn't seem to make any difference that way back in 1989, the National Highway Safety Admini...		 Mar 4, 10 Will Offensicht 0 14

Obama's Clowns Crashing Toyota's Circus

By now, everyone who follows the news in America has observed our government heaping scorn on Toyota because of suspicions that design flaws in their cars lead to "Sudden unintended acceleration." Judging from the welter of words coming out of Washingto...		 Mar 2, 10 Will Offensicht 0 7

Why China Cannot Blackmail Us Like the Middle East Does

Many pundits have noted that China seems to be taking over more and more of the world's share of manufacturing as measured either by the value of the output or by the number of factory jobs. We see periodic calls for the government to Do Something to "R...		 Feb 10, 10 Will Offensicht 0 1

Another Bone-Headed Blunder by Obama's Car Czar

In "In Risky Move, GM to Run Plants Around Clock," the Wall Street Journal reports: KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Starting Jan. 4, General Motors Co. plans to do something unprecedented in the U.S. car industry: It will run its assembly line here around the clock...		 Jan 13, 10 Will Offensicht 0 12

More Unintended Side Effects of Cash for Clunkers

The "Cash for Clunkers" program (CfC) ended ahead of schedule because it ran out of money, but it crammed a lot of auto sales into July and August. It's obvious that some customers delayed buying cars because they heard the program was about to start an...		 Aug 31, 09 Will Offensicht 0 1

Power From The People

 From its inception, America has been about liberty in all forms - economic, political, and religious. The Pilgrims moved their families and lives from civilized, comfortable, but apostate and tyrannical Holland to a barren wilderness in order to worshi...		 May 27, 09 Kermit Frosch 0 0

Obama's Fouled Plan for Detroit

My, what a difference a few short months makes. This time last year, while the entire business world was well aware of GM and Chrysler's dire straits and the clear political fact that no president would want either of them to fold on their watch, nobody...		 Apr 30, 09 Petrarch 0 7

Obama Bailouts Too Socialist, Says Sweden

Ah, Sweden! That legendary land of buxom blondes, nude beaches, the Midnight Sun (yes, just like Norway) - and a welfare system so thorough and penetrating that, so we hear, birth certificates no longer even have a blank for the father's name. It shoul...		 Mar 26, 09 Hobbes 0 3

The World Needs More Sweatshops, Not Fewer

 The teaser for the New York Times article "Where Sweatshops Are a Dream" read: What the world's most impoverished people need isn't fewer sweatshops, but more of them. The article introduced readers to the rather complex economy which has grown up...		 Mar 25, 09 Will Offensicht 0 2

Bureaucracy Stalls Green Cars

 The blogger network Green Options published an article "Upstart Chinese Car Company BYD Releases Plug-In Hybrid. See What You Can Do With No Regulations?" The article started: China-based BYD has introduced a plug-in hybrid that can be plugged into...		 Dec 23, 08 Will Offensicht 0 5

General Motors Takes the UAW's Bullet

 Nobody - not even our famously feckless Congress - now doubts that General Motors and Chrysler are in deep trouble. It's also perfectly clear how they got into trouble, and their experience offers a number of lessons. The forces of nature have a hab...		 Dec 16, 08 Will Offensicht 0 7

It's Market Value, Stupid!

 Ask your great-grandparents, and, assuming they're old enough and still around, they'll remember the lack of material wealth during their youth. During the Great Depression, most people were lucky if they could find enough to eat. When World War II st...		 Nov 17, 08 Will Offensicht 0 1

Innovate or Starve

It's not often that we find ourselves in agreement with the New York Times, but they recently said something unusually sensible. Their electronic version published "Georgia on my Mind," the blurb for which said, "Barack Obama and John McCain need to foc...		 Oct 2, 08 Will Offensicht 0 1

Detroit Deserves 40 Billion Bucks

 In a time when a Presidential campaign can burn through half a billion dollars, it's easy to overlook relatively small stuff. Not only that, there's an unending line of individuals, companies, and pols' relatives with their hands out for government lar...		 Sep 8, 08 Will Offensicht 0 10

Will Bureaucrats Let Detroit Save Itself?

We all know that the US operations of all our auto manufacturers are in deep trouble, but things aren't quite what they seem. Their troubles in the US market are all too real. The New York Times reports: In the latest sign of the deepening trouble...		 Aug 11, 08 Will Offensicht 0 3

Dallas Auto Showoffs

Last weekend I was in Dallas for business. The people I was working with went to a car show downtown so I ended up joining them. This turned out to be an extremely large car show with virtually every major manufacturer and many minor ones. From Ford to...		 Apr 14, 08 Demosthenes 0 2

Star Trek & Buggy Whips: The Truth About Vanished Jobs

When people talk about progress and change, they often bring up the example of buggy whip manufacturers. Around the turn of the century, there were manufacturers who made buggy whips. They specialized in buggy whips and that's all they did. A buggy wh...		 Feb 5, 08 Fennoman 0 7