I don’t often take the side of health insurers, but the clause to provide proof of insurance is telling. The State is trying to pass off the inevitable medical costs of their policies from State resources (like medicade care) to private companies, but if I were a insurance company, and my client CHOSE not to wear a…

Any company of that size - especially a publicly traded one - is always going to cut with an axe and not a scalpel. Some of that is convenience (hard to ID top and bottom performers amongst 140,000 people), a lot of it is bureaucracy, and an even bigger part is that nobody has enough personal skin or investment in the…

One reason the NFL is so successful is forced scarcity - too much of a product dilutes interest and the meaningfulness of each contest. Every single NFL game has big implications. 162 baseball games? Nobody watches them and one game or even a 3-game series has any meaning. 84 NBA games? 70% are meaningless. And now…

I was in high school in 1993 and me and a buddy drove to a K-Mart outside Philly where Mario was doing a signing, and he signed a playing card for me, as well as the cover page of an AutoWeek (don’t let the name fool you, it was bi-weekly) story about his recent win in Phoenix...which turned out to be his last Indycar…

Detroit does anagram to Tit-Redo, so could have worked as an ad for a plastic surgeon, worst case.

The disappointment is real

America’s largest gang shot up this neighborhood.

“As soon as it is safe.”

Cut the price by $50,000, lose $250,000/car, make it up on volume.

I’m an engineer for a private engineering company where our President was an engineer just like me, then ran our marketing, then CFO, and now President. It is amazing the insight she maintains into the practical issues our staff faces, while simultaneously helping people see beyond what they think are limitations.…

Yes, I have zero friends or family or coworkers who own Toyotas and ask me about car stuff.

I would not touch a Big 3 product today if I cared about longevity, in 40 years they have still not caught Japan on most fronts. People circle-jerk on Toyotas because they last forever. And they don’t care about mediocre driving, which is the very definition of the middle of a bell curve, and there is nothing wrong…

Toyota. And this is a question about automakers, not who makes the best (enthusiast) cars. As an 80's kid I watched my dad suffer through unreliable GM station wagons for his summer painting (he was a school teacher), then a Gremlin that barely ever started, then his dream, finally, a Mercedes! Except it was a 1972…

The face of a woman who still thinks it’s witchcraft.

The MKVII VWs (Golf, GTI, Jetta from 2015-2023) have been incredibly reliable. It’s not 2011 anymore.

Damn that E350 is nice, and the price looks good.  However, as the owner of a modern Mercedes, even the standard maintenance - when nothing is going wrong - will eat you alive.  Steer clear, it’s not worth it, even to look that good.

It also removed 24% of my incentive to donate to charity.

Thanks to the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 (hey, 1 out of 2 ain’t bad), we basically do not subsidize mortgages anymore though, unless you are carrying a massive loan with massive interest.  Prior to that, about 30% of taxpayers itemized, now it’s about 10%. 

I get that burn rate is a thing and happens in many businesses (my wife started her own business that took 2 years to turn a profit), I guess it’s the sheer blindness and stupidity that VC’s or PE’s or Saudi princes dump $$$$ into businesses that are run like a total S-show.  Lordstown Motors, Nickola, that 3-wheeled…

“I wonder what their cash burn was vs capital...”