Month June 2008

China is raising their subsidized oil prices, something which caused spot oilprices to fall.. The number of miles driven by US drivers is falling. Maybe a Segway could be an alternative means of transportation? Hey, these high oil prices even…

Through the miracles of the Undo function in my text editor, I’ve managed to restore most of the posts from yesterday after our web hosting company was forced to restore data and we lost a day’s posts. (I’m now copying…

Cerebrus took Chrysler private last year. They installed Robert Nardelli as CEO. You may remember him. He was fired as CEO of Home Depot where he was cited as being among the “highest-paid chief executives of worst-performing companies.” Oddly, Chrysler…

There’s a time bomb set to explode in the auto leasing market. All those SUVs and trucks that no one wants now will be coming off lease and it’s expected their residual value will be $6,000 less per car than…

Wood at The John Heron Project has a fine rant about Edward Norton refusing to publicize The Incredible Hulk because scenes were cut that compromised his artistic vision of what this daring and groundbreaking film should be. The message to…