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Toyota Projects First-Ever Annual Loss; Congress Disses Detroit

Steve Parker | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.

GM's Own "Heritage Collection" Is Now Up for Sale

Steve Parker | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

GM is selling off, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, memory-by-memory, the GM Heritage Collection. Finding out felt like I'd taken a punch to the gut.

Car Sales Tank; Detroit Visits DC, Pt. II

Steve Parker | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

Now that they have our attention, the Detroit Three, in plans submitted to Congress Tuesday, increased their appeals for federal loans from $25 billion to $34 billion.

Precipitous fifteen-year drop in US car sales; Need one? You probably can't get one

Steve Parker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...

$50 Billion for the Detroit Three: Yea or Nay?

Steve Parker | Posted 08.28.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.

Can GM Survive?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

John McCain visited a GM factory and said if cars like the Volt, a plug-in gas/electric hybrid GM is developing, really do make it to market (still a question mark), "hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created." He's wrong.

How To Tie a Necktie

Steven Denlinger | Posted 01.04.2008 | Living


Steven Denlinger

Coming from a broken home in the 1940s was quite different than it is today, and my father must have felt the pain acutely.