Are the Detroit Three wrapped around Ron’s Gettelfinger?

So I watched the auto companies’ CEOs ask Congress for money. In fact, I watched almost all four hours of Tuesday’s beg-a-thon before the Senate Banking Committee. I didn’t blog about it because I was frantically struggling to tease a magazine column out of it. Now that’s done, and I want to share one thing [...]

Free money? Sure, what could be wrong with that?

My colleague Sean Gregory has a piece up on Time.com about a Toyota advertisement for zero-percent financing that’s annoying the heck out of sports fans. Apparently, the song “Saved by Zero” stops being catchy if you hear it at every commercial break. I get that automakers are desperate for people to come buy cars, but [...]