Interesting take on this idea. I generally go more for the slow cooker solution (put it in a crock pot), or baked solution in a cast iron skillet.

German cars (built in Germany) use unions, also cost more, and thus have higher margins. However they were not on the list, thus we could not tell.

Most of the cars sold in the US are made in the US. The issue is, taxation on profits, exchange rate, and cost of labor (due to lack of unions at many southern plants).

Right down the road from there ... It was -7 this morning when it happened ;)

There are levels of non-competes. I have written and signed many in my career.

Most industrialized countries pick their largest cities and perform a CPI (Consumer Pricing Index) or some equivalent. All this did was take the CPIs from several countries and put them in one place.

Who is the we in this statement? Normal driving public? Poor people? The rich with extra money in their pocket? I doubt very much I would pay for this car. If I wanted something like this car, I would just go for the Rogue or Murano .. tons cheaper.

Yes and no. When you are looking at a vehicle, and the COST of the vehicle allows you to handle your edge case, then why not? I mean paying for a pickup truck is still almost 30% cheaper than buying the low end tesla. That 30% could pay for gas for years.

I had a 15 year mortgage as well and was at year 6. My interest was falling off (so the tax advantages were not much) but the interest was high - and could not re-finance (due to being self employed). However I spent 2 years unemployed during those 6 years (which I could do nothing to refinance then as well as I…

I don't know .. I did the numbers in my situation and I found paying it off worked best for me. Then again - I got a lump sum - and still earn a lot of income. No matter what I did, I was maxing my roth, and paying monthly mortgage of 5.2%. Figured that the tax exemption (deduction for mortgage interest) and taxes…

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Crash Test Standards. Not that I want my cars to not be safer, but I don't want a bureaucrat telling me how to design my cars (ie. materials, length, etc.) Let cars be independently tested (as they are by the insurance institute) and let their chips fall where they might. If a 1990 corolla could get a 3 star…

Why Kill off the good cars in a lineup to "make their own brands" and thus leave the brands with their own remaining loss leaders? That is just crazy. The reason they work is because they are part of an existing ecosystem of parts, dealers, manufacturing and design . Take all that away and you are left with crap.

I didn't say anything about refinement. I said they added new stuff to keep up with the times. In 2007 if you had bluetooth and crap like that you were paying thousands for it.

The thing I see on this list is lots of things that use extra energy. I honestly want to turn my car off and have it keep nothing running but the internal clock. Now all this stuff is running, using the battery, and if you don't drive your car for a week you have to worry about a dead battery when you get home from…

I didn't buy it .. but got it for Christmas (as it was apparently cheap). A Ferrari collapsible drink flask. Basically it is a thick plastic bag, with a lid on it, you put liquor in it, and can roll it up when you are not using it. It holds a 450ml of something. So not a 5th, barely 1/2 a fifth. Why not go all…

Is there an Egg in there .. somewhere .. to make it a modicum of healthy? I do notice the wild turkey in the background ..

Mine was medication. Once I got off my medication (but did not loose the reason to be on the medicine) I did a whole lot better.

I freeze my bacon. This way it lasts a long time and I buy 4-5 pounds at a time when it is on sale and it lasts about 1/2 a year. Anyways .. When frozen, I open the package, and cut it with a knife to about 1.5 inches in length. I don't try to peel it apart, I just drop the whole thing in my cast iron skillet. I…

I seriously looked at the ridgeline when I got my new car in 2007. What turned me off was they had not kept up with the times and updated the drive train. By the end of the run, they did minor tweaks inside (better stereo, bluetooth) but they kept the same engine, and 5-speed automatic. If they put something with…