Did Cash for Clunkers “Revitalize” the Auto Industry?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 23 September 2009
Stats: 54 views and 4 Comments During a recent conversation with a friend, he told me that the Cash for Clunkers program had “done wonders” for the auto industry. Indeed, he hardly is alone. Automotive News recently editorialized that the program “worked,” and now it is time to “build on its success.” The editorial declared: The August U.S. ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 23 September 2009
Stats: 54 views and 4 Comments During a recent conversation with a friend, he told me that the Cash for Clunkers program had “done wonders” for the auto industry. Indeed, he hardly is alone. Automotive News recently editorialized that the program “worked,” and now it is time to “build on its success.” The editorial declared: The August U.S. ...
Cash for Clunkers is a Loser
Posted in Articles on 27 August 2009
Stats: 100 views and 42 Comments August 25, 2009 was the last day of President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, inspired by the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act. As I drove through a major shopping area that day, I passed a large and highly successful Toyota dealer. Just past the sparkling showroom and sparsely ...
Posted in Articles on 27 August 2009
Stats: 100 views and 42 Comments August 25, 2009 was the last day of President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, inspired by the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act. As I drove through a major shopping area that day, I passed a large and highly successful Toyota dealer. Just past the sparkling showroom and sparsely ...
Stealth Expansion of Government Power
Posted in Articles on 20 August 2009
Stats: 29 views and 3 Comments The government of the United States is in the midst of debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet far more fundamental is a basic but stealth shift in national priorities—in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of ...
Posted in Articles on 20 August 2009
Stats: 29 views and 3 Comments The government of the United States is in the midst of debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet far more fundamental is a basic but stealth shift in national priorities—in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of ...
The “I Hate the Poor” Act of 2009
Posted in Articles on 11 August 2009
Stats: 42 views and 6 Comments So I am shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show is on a roll. Cash-for-Clunkers had just failed, or so declared the P.R. flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this brought great lessons. “This was ...
Posted in Articles on 11 August 2009
Stats: 42 views and 6 Comments So I am shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show is on a roll. Cash-for-Clunkers had just failed, or so declared the P.R. flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this brought great lessons. “This was ...
