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| Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Still Footing The Bill To Fix A German Automaker? | ||
| 8/3/2012 2:05 PM | ||
| A little-noticed loan in 2010 now has taxpayers wondering if GM is throwing good money after bad…Read More | ||
| Troubled Navistar Props Up Its Finances But Now Faces SEC Probe | ||
| 8/2/2012 2:10 PM | ||
| To meet clean air rules, it will buy engine technology from Cummins. But now it faces an SEC inquiry…Read More | ||
| Rent vs. Buy: What the Standard Indices Aren’t Telling You | ||
| 8/2/2012 11:30 AM | ||
| Rent or buy? It’s a popular topic, and plenty of experts are quick to trot out a simple rent vs. buy index and tell you that if you live in, say, San Francisco, you should be renting, while if you live in Detroit, buying makes more sense. But is it that easy? Do these simple …..Read More | ||
| Death By Hubris: The Catastrophic Decision That Could Bankrupt A Great American Manufacturer | ||
| 8/2/2012 8:19 AM | ||
| One of America’s most storied manufacturers, $14 billion Navistar, survived the Civil War, the Depression and World War II. A stubborn decision by its CEO has jeopardized its futur…Read More | ||
| Economists Claim Medicaid’s Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? | ||
| 8/1/2012 1:38 AM | ||
| The big news last week in the health policy world was a study published by three Harvard economists, arguing that Medicaid expansions were “significantly associated with reduced mortality.” Their paper comes in the wake of dozens of clinical studies showing that Medicaid beneficiaries suffer from very poor health outcomes relative to those with pri…Read More | ||
| Car of the Week: 2012 Infiniti G37 Coupe | ||
| 7/31/2012 2:29 PM | ||
| ? The Car: 2012 Infiniti G37 Coupe AWD Where I drove it: City in May. First Impressions: I once drove a rear-wheel drive G37 Coupe through a blizzard. At the time, the G was newer to the market and the test drive seemed like a cruel joke. People spoke highly of the G, but my …..Read More | ||
| Car of the Week: Chrysler 300 Luxury Series | ||
| 7/31/2012 1:59 PM | ||
| ? The Car: 2012 Chrysler 300 Series Where I drove it: On a Michigan holiday visiting my family. Destination: Lake Michigan shore. First Impressions: The 2012 Chrysler 300 was parked next to my mom’s outgoing 2008 Chrysler 300 in my parents’ driveway when it arrived for delivery. Side by side, it was easy to identify …..Read More | ||
| Dan Akerson Runs GM With A Tight Fist, But Appears To Be Losing His Grip | ||
| 7/31/2012 5:21 AM | ||
| Rash of executive departures undermines GM’s turnaround effor…Read More | ||
| BMW Goes To The London Olympics | ||
| 7/28/2012 2:29 PM | ||
| We’ll see a lot of BMW at the 2012 London ??Look for BMW front and center in promotional campaigns and in happenstance background shots ??? there are??4,037 BMW diesel, hybrid and electric cars, motorcycles and bicycles rolling through London during the games. It’s not the first investment BMW has made in Brittania. BMW acquired the …..Read More | ||
| CBO: Obamacare Will Spend More, Tax More, and Reduce the Deficit Less Than We Previously Thought | ||
| 7/27/2012 12:30 AM | ||
| Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office released its revised estimates of what Obamacare will cost, now that the Supreme Court has weighed in. As I read the report, it occurred to me to ask: how have the CBO’s estimates changed over time? It turns out that, even when you compare the years that are common to each CBO report, a clear trend…Read More | ||
| Tough Guy Test: Would You Buy A Pickup Truck Made Of Aluminum? | ||
| 7/26/2012 3:59 PM | ||
| Ford plans to build next generation of F-150 pickup from aluminum, boosting gas mileage by 25…Read More | ||
| First Drive: 2013 Mercedes Benz GL | ||
| 7/26/2012 12:37 PM | ||
| I drove the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL in unique conditions: through the mountainous New Mexico desert, sans the kids, en route to the??Earthship. Yet, during the six hours I spent behind the wheel and riding shot gun??in the GL 350 BlueTEC, I got to know the ins and outs of this hefty 7-seater, which gave me …..Read More | ||
| Ford Is Worried As It Should Be | ||
| 7/25/2012 12:27 PM | ||
| Under Alan Mulally, Ford has built credibility that it knows how to tackle problems like Europ…Read More | ||
| Housing Market Turns Corner; U.S. Home Values Post First Annual Increase In Nearly Five Years | ||
| 7/24/2012 2:31 PM | ||
| Zillow’s second quarter Real Estate Market Reports, released today, show home values increased 2.1% from the first to the second quarter of 2012 to $149,300 (Figure 1). On an annual basis, home values rose 0.2% from June 2011 levels (Figure 2), marking the first annual increase in U.S. home values since 2007. In addition to …..Read More | ||
| CBO Guesstimates that Obamacare Will Cover 3 Million Less People after the Supreme Court, Saving $84 Billion | ||
| 7/24/2012 2:15 PM | ||
| Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its post-Supreme Court estimates of Obamacare’s impact on the deficit. The headline is that the CBO estimates that states opting out of Medicaid will reduce the deficit by $84 billion from 2012-2022, compared to its previous estimate, and result in 3 million fewer people gaining coverage from the law….Read More | ||
| How Do Blue States Expand Medicaid? By Paying Doctors Less | ||
| 7/23/2012 10:24 PM | ||
| The biggest health-policy debate in America right now is whether or not states should opt in to Obamacare’s dramatic expansion of Medicaid, our government-run health care program for the poor. Governors from both parties are concerned that the costs of the expansion will be higher than projected, and that the federal government will back out of its…Read More | ||
| Heroes of the Evolution | ||
| 7/23/2012 1:48 PM | ||
| As I prepare to moderate a panel at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington this week, I’m thinking about HIV-positive women like Lucy Wambura and Elizabeth Glaser. Lucy is still with us; Elizabeth isn’t. As the 25,000 delegates, scientists, policy makers, donors and others like Lucy attend from around the world, I think about …..Read More | ||
| Puma Ocean Racing Battles to the Volvo Ocean Race Finish Line | ||
| 7/20/2012 10:43 PM | ||
| The Ocean Racing team completed the final grueling leg of the Volvo Ocean Race in??July earning an honorable third place finish in Galway, Ireland. While the team was working with the latest sailing technology, the waters and competition were formidable.”Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean …..Read More | ||
| Governors’ Worst Nightmare: Obama Proposed Shifting Costs of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion to the States | ||
| 7/19/2012 5:56 AM | ||
| Last week, I wrote about why states have a significant fiscal incentive to drop out of Obamacare’s expansion of the Medicaid program. States fear, among other things, that the federal government will shift more of the program’s costs to the states over time, leaving states with an unsustainable spending commitment. It turns out that this fear isn’t…Read More | ||
| Cadillac, Seeking Respect, Confronts The Scariest Roads In The World | ||
| 7/18/2012 1:25 AM | ||
| New Cadillac ATS takes on the world’s worst driving conditions to prove it can stand up to the BMW 3-series…Read More | ||
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