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The steep decline in Cherry's car sales in China and the precarious condition of the Chinese consumer- 2008
04/24/2008
The precarious condition of the Chinese consumer and first time buyer of cars, with no safety net in the economy for health care or unemployment. The severe downturn for Cherry and why GM cannot look to China for any kind of relief.
Linked Articles
With First Car, a New Life in China
New York Times 04/24/2008
China's Car Makers Seek Different Help: Lower Sales TaxesWall Street Journal 11/20/2008
The collapse of Bear Stearns in 2008
03/17/2008
The collapse of Bear Stearns and the takeover with Fed backing by JP Morgan, March 15-16, 2008.
Linked Articles
At Lehman, Allaying Fears About Being the Next to Fall
New York Times 03/18/2008
In a Crisis, It's Dimon Once AgainWall Street Journal 03/17/2008
Sheila Bair at FDIC has proposal to help homeowners similiar to Feldstein's
03/07/2008
Sheila Bair 's proposal to help homeowners is similar to what Martin Feldstein proposed on the pages of WSJ on March 7, 2008. About 2 months later FDIC proposes to take action to help homeowners by offering homeowners with debt to income ratios above 40%, a loan from the government for 20% of their loan amount with no interest charged for the first 5 years, and loan payments required to be lowered to affordable numbers.
Linked Articles
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2008
Bair Proposal Seeks Government Loans To Aid HomeownersWall Street Journal 04/30/2008
Daimler's solution to overheating in lithium ion car batteries and GM and Toyota's own efforts to solve this
01/11/2008
The overheating of lithium ion batteries is why it has taken so long to come up with mass market electric cars or hybrids using lithium ion batteries. Daimler's Zetsche says his company is the first to put a car on the market with litium ion battery in its S400 in late 2008 and it has developed a sophisticated cooling system in the car for this.
Linked Articles
At Daimler, Sales Follow the World’s Oil Riches
New York Times 05/10/2008
Race to Make Electric Cars Stalled by Battery ProblemsWall Street Journal 01/11/2008
Ford's marketing challenges in 2008
01/06/2008
Ford shows originality in the display of a crashed Taurus at the March 2008 New York Auto Show, the display designed to show car buyers how the safety features protect occupants and make them look at Ford cars.
Linked Articles
Ford's EcoBoost Engine Excites Marketer
New York Times 01/06/2008
Ford Displays a Wreck to Score Safety PointsNew York Times 03/18/2008
Cherry Automobile and BYD, 2 unlikely pioneers for the car industry in China.
12/04/2007
How Cherry and BYD, with small beginnings but the vision and perseverance moved to take leadership positions in the car industry in China. They are also moving into export markets in western countries. BYD has the lead and the low cost technical manpower to sell electric cars at an attractive enough price to make a dent in the market, even with gasoline prices coming down.
Linked Articles
Technology Levels Playing Field in Race to Market Electric Car
Wall Street Journal 01/12/2009
In China, Chery Automobile Drives an Industry ShiftWall Street Journal 12/04/2007
Failure to invest in tech startups dims hopes for a shift away from a commodity based Russian economy- 2005-2015
10/08/2006
Linked Articles
Russia's Tech Startup Scene Retreats Amid Ukraine Conflict
Wall Street Journal 09/09/2014
Germany Drafts Policy for Europe to Strengthen Russian TiesNew York Times 10/08/2006
An internal 2006 Pemex report showing a sharp decline in production, and the situation in 2013 with Mexico a net energy importer in March 2013
08/02/2006
Mexico's oil law comes as the nation faced a crisis in declining oil production since 2006. Efforts by the newly elected PAN party Calderon administration in that year and throughout its term in office failed to open up the oil industry to foreign investment, as the PRI and the PRD opposition parties opposed this. A two thirds majority in Congress was needed to change the constitution allowing foreign oil companies to compete with state owned Pemex. The increasing oil production from shale in the U.S. and Canada has increased the urgency, and the potential in deep waters off Mexico for which Pemex needs the technology of foreign oil companies has added to this.
Linked Articles
How Shale Helped Frack Mexico's Energy Impasse
Wall Street Journal 12/12/2013
Mexico's Biggest Oil Field Sees DeclineWall Street Journal 08/02/2006
Entry of low cost Chinese cars into world markets.
04/29/2005
The other thing the Koreans are thinking of if they don't move upscale to Lexus type cars they risk being squeezed at the lowend by Chinese carmakers like Cherry.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2005
Low-Cost Chinese Cars Making Restrained Entry to European MarketNew York Times 07/13/2007
Shiites, Marsh Shia, Kurds and the disbanding of Saddam's army and the Saddam regime in Iraq
03/17/2008
The disbanding of the Iraqi army as seen in and through the eyes of the Kurds (and of the marsh Shia) where some of the worst Saddamist regime repression ocurred.
Linked Articles
In Northern Iraq, Kurds Mourn Victims of Gas Attacks 20 Years Ago
New York Times 03/17/2008
Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed DebateNew York Times 03/17/2008
The Fed engineered takeover of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan Chase
03/17/2008
The takeover of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan at $2 a share with the Fed's backing the weekend of March 15-16, 2008, and the questions about Lehman Brothers.
Linked Articles
At Lehman, Allaying Fears About Being the Next to Fall
New York Times 03/18/2008
Fed Acts to Rescue Financial MarketsNew York Times 03/17/2008
Toyota's plug in hybrid by 2010 and Nissan's electric cars by 2010
01/14/2008
Nissan wil have a mass market type electic car by 2010, and Toyota will have a plug in by 2010.
Linked Articles
Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. by ’10
New York Times 05/13/2008
Toyota Will Offer a Plug-In Hybrid by 2010New York Times 01/14/2008
Two pioneers in the car industry, one Tata Motors in very small economical cars from India and the other BYD in economical electric cars fro China.
01/08/2008
BYD and Tata Motors are pioneers in economical small cars and electric cars. Both have a good shot at accomplishing their goals and taking leadership position in their field because of the low cost high quality technical manpower they have, the vision of the head of the company, and the early start.
Linked Articles
Technology Levels Playing Field in Race to Market Electric Car
Wall Street Journal 01/12/2009
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 CarNew York Times 01/08/2008
Reform at Pemex and opening up Mexico's oil industry to foreign investment held up for a decade and the cost to the Mexican economy
12/19/2007
Reforms at Pemex and opening up the oil industry to foreign investment were held up in the Calderon administration after repeated efforts by the PAN party government to get the PRI and PRD's support. The final changes to the bill to make it more attractive for foreign oil companies to compete with Pemex were pushed by PAN in alliance with the PRI Nieto administration in 2013. The cost to Mexico is a lost decade in oil exploration in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and a steep decline in oil revenues as Mexico turned into a net energy importer in March 2013, according to the WSJ.
Linked Articles
Economist 12/19/2007
How Shale Helped Frack Mexico's Energy ImpasseWall Street Journal 12/12/2013
Volt Electric car design.
10/24/2007
Design for the Volt electric propulsion plug in car from GM.
Linked Articles
GM Opens Electric Design Studio
BusinessWeek 01/02/2008
G.M.’s Electric Dream Awaits RealityNew York Times 10/24/2007
Handan Iron & Steel Works, Hebei Province, and ThyssenKrupp, Dortmund, Germany, a world away- bad decisions and environmental pollution in China
10/02/2006
Did China's government officials underestimate the cost of environmental pollution in bringing the old polluting plant from Dortmund, Germany? How much will a cleanup cost? In 2007? In 2015 or 2020? Were these costs figured in? Who got the better deal- Germany or China?
Linked Articles
Why Beijing Is Trying to Tally The Hidden Costs of Pollution As China's Economy Booms - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2006
China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing FactoriesNew York Times 12/21/2007
Southwest Airlines' continuing effort to overturn the 1979 Wright Amendment, a federal law restricting flights from Dallas Love Field
05/10/2005
Efforts were made in 2005 to increase flights beyond the restriction to 7 states- originally the law restricted flights to 4 states. Southwest has been fighting this law passed as an amendment to an aviation law by U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright in 1979. Its intention was giving American Airlines the incentive to build a giant hub at the new 1974 Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Linked Articles
Southwest, United Locked in Dogfight
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2012
Southwest's Dallas DuelWall Street Journal 05/10/2005
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