Of Toyota’s retirees and the auto industry’s woes

In the comments to my Monday Chrysler post, James asks a couple of interesting questions: Do you feel that Toyota and other rising automakers will face challenges similar to the Big Three in the future, once their current workers start to retire? Of all the industries facing waves of boomers retiring, why has the auto [...]

Tesla vs. Chrysler

At Seeking Alpha this morning, hyperprolific venture capitalist/blogger Paul Kedrosky has this to say about the Chrysler deal: I’m sure I won’t be the only [one] to be intrigued by the juxtaposition of Daimler (DCX) paying Cerberus almost a billion dollars to take Chrysler off its hands yesterday and last Friday’s announcement that Tesla Motors [...]