America’s Worst Car Brand
For decades, the gold standard of research about US auto quality has been JD Power studies. Most of its research reports have been issued for decades. It recently released this year’s version of the…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
BYD Sales Collapse. What About Tesla?
It is hard to imagine how a hot company like BYD could suffer an extraordinary drop in sales. However, in February, it happened. According to the FT. “The world’s biggest electric vehicle maker reported…
Is This The Safest Stock During A War?
The markets are dropping. They did at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They did at the start of the Gulf War (1990–1991) under President George H.W. Bush. They did at the start…
Oil Is Going To $100, According To Experts
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spiked oil prices to over $100. On March 8, 2022, it reached $127. It spiked over $100 again in June of that year. Oil recently settled into a consumer-friendly pattern;…
Netflix Stock Ready For 50% Surge
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX | NFLX Price Prediction) stock rose as it walked away from an $83 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery (NYSE: WBD) (There would also have been a spin-out of old media…
A 40% Cut In S&P 500 Employment Would Cost 11 Million Jobs
In 2023, Goldman Sachs released a report warning that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs globally to automation. Since then, Block's decision to cut 40% of its workforce has…
Will Ford And GM Be Out Of Business Before 2050?
The FT put together a complex analysis of what the future of Detroit’s car companies will look like in 2050. It quoted Glenn Mercer, an independent automotive researcher saying, “Simple extrapolation . . . says the domestic American…
Will Regulating AI Cripple AI Stocks?
No matter how transformative AI is, the sector faces two main challenges to its growth in the US. Both are political in their own ways. That puts hundreds of billions of dollars at risk,…
AI’s Future, What To Do When You Get Fired?
There are several grim assessments about how many jobs AI will eliminate in America. Large consulting firms say they will not hire people without AI experience. Accenture and KPMG say promotions will be based…
Amazon Shares Crash This Year
We are less than two months into the year, and Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) stock is in the midst of a collapse. It is already down 10%, while the S&P 500…
The Perfect Storm For A Market Collapse
What makes for a market collapse? Let’s define this as a reset, like the one in 2008, when the S&P 500 fell by 38.5%, the most precipitous drop since 1937. In 2026, there is…
BYD Shows It Is King Of The EV Market
The world economy is generally divided into three regions. One is China. One is the US. The third is the EU. This means developing nations like India are left out of the equation. However,…
How Tesla Beat The Market
For much of last year, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) shares traded wel l below the S&P 500. Some of the early drop was due to Elon Musk’s relationship with the new…
Apple’s Stock Recovery Is No Recovery At All
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) stock has partially recovered from a sell-off that hit other large tech companies harder, because they are “dumping” hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers. Apple,…
Tesla’s Self-Driving Future Hit By Waymo’s New York Disaster
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is about to completely kill a proposal to expand the use of autonomous for-hire vehicles outside New York City. The block adds to the industry’s hurdles to expand…
Gas Prices Could Go Back To $5
Almost exactly four years ago, Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. Fairly quickly, the US sanctioned Russia’s oil exports. Russia produced 12% of the world’s oil then. By March, Brent crude futures hit $138.…
YouTube Threat Drives Netflix to 52-week Low
“YouTube Is Winning the Streaming Wars,” reads a recent headline from Barron’s. The general consensus is that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX | NFLX Price Prediction) is near a 52-week low due to its attempt to…
Social Security Wait Time Jumps To An Hour
The Social Security Administration says phone wait times for callers with questions or who needed help were 15.9 minutes last year. SSA management says that it is down from 27.9 minutes the year before.…
IBM’s Market Cap Collapse
IBM (NYSE: IBM | IBM Price Prediction) ranked No. 1 by market capitalization in the US in 1985, according to a study by Axios. By 1995 and 2005, under legendary CEO Jack Welch (who…
Buffett Dumps More Apple
In his last quarter as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B | BRK-B Price Prediction), Warren Buffett remixed his portfolio, as he always does. He cut his position in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and increased…