Car Czar Consulting says: Deficits prompts a US tax “scavenger” hunt. Guess who and what’s being hunted?
$1.4 trillion US federal deficit prompts “scavenger hunt”
04/23/2010, JT Young, With a $1.4 trillion federal deficit last year, the scavenger hunt for new revenue is on in earnest. Budget pressures will only increase and [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: Oh please, the GM Bailout was a failure, and no,  the Taxpayer hasn’t made money

Apr. 22, 2010, BusinessInsider, GM repaid $6.7 billion in US loans and another $1.4 billion in Canadian government loans. So where does that leave GM? Let’s take a look.

Please consider Gas in the tank: [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: The Tea Party has picked up where Reagan left off. Opposing views welcomed.

America’s Constitutional Revolt
April 22, 2010, Larry Kudlow

So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying.
We know that this [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: Wayne Carroll opines again below. Opposing views welcomed.
Peace in our time? (Noel Chamberlain of the British Labor Party, 1939)…I know that “Bibi” Netenyahu and Israel knows better than Chamberlain that you can’t appease a bunch of psychotics; malignant with their world view of death and dark hatreds, whether they are National Socialists [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: How the times have changed.
Social media is key!
Wikipedia, Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. They support the democratization of knowledge and information and [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: A Tale of Two Cities 2010

Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California
Michale Barone, April 9, 2010, “Stop messing with Texas!” That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: This does not sound good.
Beware of a Value Added Tax

04/09/2010, Mtt Hadro, White House economic adviser Paul Volcker’s suggestion that Congress enact a “value added tax” (VAT) has spurred outrage from conservatives, led the White House to distance itself from his comments, and furthered speculation that [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: Buyer and Dealer Beware!

N.Y. car dealer ordered to pay restitution

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has obtained a judgment against the former owner of a Poughkeepsie car dealership who sold consumers vehicles that had allegedly been used as rental cars.
Raymond M. Wilkinson III, the former [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: US to Tiger: Shut up and swing!
Nike, Tiger: Marriage of Slime, Scandal

WSJ, 4/08/2010, I’m not buying, and you shouldn’t either. We can’t let Tiger Woods and Nike fool us again.
One day before Woods returned to golf for the first round of the Masters, he and Nike have combined on a [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: This apple continues to grow profitably by providing consumer features.
Apple iPhone to soon get long-sought multitasking; Apple will update iPhones, iPads to run more than 1 program at once; feature long sought
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices will soon be able to run more than one [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: “So sorry,” Saga Continues, Part Deux.
Europeans warned of Toyota pedals well before US
April 2, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before Toyota told U.S. regulators about sticking accelerator pedals, the Japanese automaker warned its distributors throughout Europe about similar problems, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
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Car Czar Consulting says: “…Renault and Nissan will each take on a 1.55 percent stake in Daimler, which in turn will take a 3.1 percent stake in each of the other two. The move will add to Renault and Nissan’s existing 11-year-old alliance, that has made it the world’s fourth largest automotive group with [...]

Hyundai Dealers Must Cater to Customers to Sell the 2011 Equus

April 2 2010, Automobile

Check Dealer Pricing On a New Hyundai

Hyundai’s new 2011 Equus sedan certainly packs a lot of luxury into an affordable package, but in order to sway luxury buyers — especially those faithful to traditional luxury brands — the [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: Consumers are now conditioned to wait for strong incentives to buy or lease.
Toyota sales surge 41% fueled by incentives
Freep, April 1, 2010, FToyota learned that incentives work as the automaker reported a 41% increase in its U.S. sales in March reversing year-over-year declines in January and February in the [...]

Retail Stores Closing Doors

First Quarter Roundup 2010

Announcements continue to roll in from retailers that have decided to close stores, slow expansion plans or cease operations altogether.

From Ann Taylor to Waldenbooks, we update our ongoing roundup with the latest news from the first quarter of 2010. Read on to see which retailers [...]

Car Czar Consulting: Opposing opinions welcomed!

Top 10 Reasons Obamacare is a Disaster

K. Nix, 4/5/10, 1. New Spending Grows the Federal Deficit: The Congressional Budget Office sets the projected cost of the healthcare package from 2010 to 2019 at $940 billion, reducing the deficit by $138 billion. The true cost of the [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: “…After all, how can you stop someone from telling you important information, even if you don’t necessarily want it and you don’t agree to keep it secret?…”
Fraud Files: Mark Cuban Fights Back Against the SEC
04/02/10, AOL DailyFinance, In late 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against [...]

Czar Consulting says: Temporary Census jobs and other Government jobs made up the bulk of the increase.
“…Yet, the positive news reported by the government was tempered by some sobering statistics. For instance, many of the 162,000 new jobs went to temporary Census workers. And more than 40 percent of those without jobs have been [...]

Car Czar Consulting says: You’re 10-20 TRILLION in debt. Sounds like “Big Money!”

March 29, 2010, WASHINGTON — When historians recount the momentous events of recent weeks, they will note a curious coincidence. On March 15, Moody’s Investors Service — the bond rating agency — published a paper warning that the exploding U.S. government debt [...]