Exactly. Do the math on a rent-a-center rent to own deal.

For example, they have a Vizio 65" Smart TV on "special" (model #E650i-B2). They want $29.99 per week for 117 weeks.

The EXACT SAME TV is available at Walmart for $998. That means Rent-A-Center is effectively charging 2.898891% interest PER WEEK. Annualized,…

Interesting that we have politicians going after subprime auto lenders over "excessive risk" (I'm perfectly fine with going after them for discriminatory practices) that is extremely unlikely to cause significant financial problems for thelender while at the same time politicians are weakening regulations for credit…

Cute - but the global financial markets had the ruble worth far more than "zero".

1. Not quite. The average hourly pay for American workers increased 2.47% from November 2013 to November 2014. This continues a streak of several years' worth of increases. What most people (like you, I'd wager) mistake is a decades-long streak of no significant increase in "real" wages - ie, adjusted for…

Which competitors get better fuel economy? The Ram Diesel? Great - by about 1 mpg. So when you're paying $3.25/gal for diesel vs. $2.25/gal for gas - or 44% more per gallon to get 5% better mileage, are you really feeling so proud? Even though you're still paying nearly 40% more per mile?

I believe Staples actually uses a lot of electric trucks for deliveries, which would make sense - short distances, mostly city driving, etc...

That's channel 25.1 (seriously, they took the WKRP callsign)

Route 66 was one of the best car shows of the 1960's and Patrick Frawley rightly thinks it's due for a reboot:

Reverse: The Only Downside Was The Lead Poisining

Their workers were also being threatened by the state government.

Fair point. The other manufacturers, however, would likely win. And Honda v. Takata would just be interesting...

We'll see what, in the long run, OEMs will do about Takata, but for now they're kind of stuck. As Craig Trudell pointed out yesterday, to force anything NHTSA will probably have to engage in a protracted legal battle.

That is a lot of Buicks. The story also notes that fatalities are down in traffic accidents, which might have something to do with better driver education or, you know, not putting everyone in 30-year-old Toyota knockoffs.

Teachers in Ohio must not have been surveyed for this to come out so high - job satisfaction is abysmal in this state with the lunatic right in charge of state government.

Navigation.

The USSR had very poor coverage for instrument flying over most of the eastern portion of the country... So flying actually required visual navigation for many routes...

Having flown on one, they're terrifying as well..

Brilliant. You also still don't get that there are now over a million Hondas/GMs on the road which have been recalled for which there are no replacement parts available. The owner can try to bring them in, but they'll be told to come back in a few months when parts are available. Meanwhile if they'd have to get…

I'm sorry you still don't get it. It doesn't matter that most recalls are done quickly when the owner brings in the car for repair. What he have seen NUMEROUS times (Takata airbags, Ford cruise control switches, GM ignition switches, etc) is that in large recalls, the recall notices go out, but the parts are…

No one has suggested that the denial of registration would be waived if the manufacturer was unable to complete the repairs - they're currently backordered by millions on parts for Takata and GM ignition switch recalls. Your car has been recalled but you can't get it repaired. So now you say they could be provided…

"Hello, Hertz? This is Honda. You don't happen to have 4 million vehicles available for rent for the next 6 months, do you?"