NAFTA Effect: Global Manufacturers Bet on Dirt-Cheap Mexico by Don Quijones • Oct 26, 2017 • 51 Comments That wages have remained so low for so long is not by accident; it’s by design.
Yellen Was Right: “Transitory” Factors of “Low” Inflation Are Reversing, with Much More to Come by Wolf Richter • Oct 13, 2017 • 76 Comments What’s Boiling Beneath the Surging Inflation?
GM to Lay Off 1,500 More Workers, as its Car Sales Plunge Twice as Fast as Rest of Industry by Wolf Richter • Oct 12, 2017 • 93 Comments Hounded by overcapacity. But other automakers do just fine with cars.
Which Automakers Got Crushed, Which Boomed? by Wolf Richter • Oct 3, 2017 • 45 Comments Hurricane Harvey and highest discounts in US history did the trick.
The Fed’s Next Moves, the Nuts and Bolts of “Flood Cars,” and Why Everything Is Going to Get Hacked by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2017 • 33 Comments Wolf Richter on This Week in Money.
$2.25/hr to Build a $40,000 Vehicle by Wolf Richter • Sep 29, 2017 • 87 Comments Mexico’s wage repression scheme creates Nirvana for global automakers.
GM Cuts Entire Shift at SUV Factory, Laments “Moderating” Sales, Layoffs not Temporary by Wolf Richter • Sep 23, 2017 • 69 Comments Hottest segment cools. Harvey and Irma Won’t End Carmageddon.
Answers Emerge from Harvey-Hit Houston by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2017 • 26 Comments Even before Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s economy was struggling.
What Headlines Got Wrong about Today’s Data Dump by Wolf Richter • Sep 15, 2017 • 48 Comments It actually wasn’t that lousy.
Logical and Illogical Reasons to Short Tesla by Oilprice.com • Sep 8, 2017 • 54 Comments “Knowing that something could be bad for you is not always a barrier when temptation rears its head.”