Neutral : I know as soon as I post this, some keyboard warrior is going to expound on how I’m fundamentally wrong. But here it goes...if the car companies want to see their sales numbers climb, they need to bring back the truly affordable car. Right now, they’ve been riding high on the markups on trucks and SUVs.…

Not to mention that massive deregulation will drive production costs down and these savings are going to trickle down to consumers, cheap new cars for all !

And the stench of socialism! (kidding)

Beautiful, clean coal !

I agree. Once the coal industry gets back up to speed in a dozen or so sparsely-populated counties in bumpkinland it will certainly raise the standard of living across the nation.

And they will be able to get some beauties too, once the Big 3 unseal massive secret storage facilities where they have been storing surplus pre-Oil crisis inventory.

I, for one, am looking forward to being able to walk through London or Madrid for an entire day without ending the day with a nose full of black boogers.

Neutral: Will New Vehicle Sales Cool Off In 2017?

Here’s a much better concept from 1992

Seriously! Body on frame SUV with a hybrid drivetrain or I riot. Whose with me? Guys? Guys?

I’m sure they’ll be great because literally anything else would be better than this hot mess. Toyota set the bar pretty low for themselves.

Nevermind, problem solved, I found the used car factory.

I have a conspiracy nut friend who says that this completely intentional (well, he would say that; he’s a conspiracy nut) but his theory is that the Davos set know the automation singularity is coming and there is not enough conventional employment to go around. His premise is there are two choices; either a universal…

But the crash caused by auto loans will be muffled by the impending train wreck in student loan debt, which will be drowned out by the rolling thunder from hidden foreclosures and high delinquency rates in the (primarily retail, but also office and industrial) commercial real estate market.

Flat wages combined with rising health care costs pushed on to the backs/wallets of employees/consumers, housing prices, marrying later in life(2 incomes > 1), rising childcare costs, less upward mobility, etc.

Flat wages plus higher prices as a result of regulatory costs and monetary policy.

Turns out flat wages for a decade means consumers can’t buy the products they used to buy anymore. And the solution of longer loans or subprime lending has a limit, that they are apparently starting to hit. Is the trickle-down scheduled to start soon? It’s been about 30+ years, so it’s overdue.

You misspelled XTREME