Posted on 22 May 2009
Over the course of the last few Monday’s I have mentioned the large amount of retailers that reported earnings in the last few weeks. The first week saw the actual Retail Sales report for April and WalMart report. The Retail Sales figure came in much worse than expected, and WalMart met expectations and fell 2%. Read the full story
Posted on 18 March 2009
My article on the EV1 and the Chevy Volt last week got an incredible response and seemed to raise more questions than it answered. Many readers had never heard of the EV1 and had questions about it, so before I get to the feedback I thought I would give a few website Read the full story
On Monday in my article I wrote about how the non-farm payrolls report for January could be worse than expected (500k jobs lost) and sure enough this morning the figure was announced and the number of jobs lost was 598k. That’s 20 percent more than what Read the full story
My previous articles on General Motors and the EV1 generated quite a bit of reader feedback, and many of you asked the same question:
If GM could build the EV1 to go up to 150 miles on a full charge 10 years ago, why can the Read the full story
Posted on 18 March 2009
The thud you heard yesterday morning was the sound of a forehead against a desk in executive suites across Wall Street.
The headline of Monday's Wall Street Journal: "Goldman Chiefs Give Up Bonuses".
Apparently in a flash of humility, the top executives at Goldman decided that in a year that has seen the en Read the full story
Posted on 18 March 2009
The Chevrolet Volt is scheduled to roll off the assembly lines in Hamtramck sometime in late 2010. The vehicle will be powered by onboard batteries and a 1.4 liter 4 cylinder engine that will kick on after the 40 mile range of the battery charge has run out. General Motors likes to refer to it as an “electric car” but in real Read the full story