Wearing White: What Resistance Looks Like in America’s Heartland
A labor struggle in South Bend as a window into unions’ ongoing resistance to corporate greed.
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eight: Brad Stone’s Uber Book “The Upstarts”– PR/Propaganda Masquerading as Journalism
By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation companies (primarily airlines). Horan has no financial links with any urban car service industry competitors, investors or regulators, or any firms that work on behalf of industry participants Brad Stone’s new book “The Upstarts,” is subtitled “How Uber, Airbnb, […]
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Seven: Uber’s “Narrative” and The Vox and Stratechery Critiques of Naked Capitalism’s Uber Series – Defending Uber Requires Ignoring Industry Economics
More discussion of defenses of Uber and how none of them deal with the economics of providing car ride services.
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Will Trump bumble his way into a trade war?
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Six: Latest Data Confirms Bleak P&L Performance While Stephen Levitt Makes Indefensible Consumer Welfare Claims
More on Uber’s questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, “Freakonomics” professor Stephen Levitt.
Read more...Uber’s Woes Mount: California Strips Driverless Cars’ Registration, Losses Rise, VAT Charges Loom
Uber has a bad week.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Five: Addressing Reader Comments and Questions
Hubert Horan answers questions about his series on Uber.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Four: Understanding That Unregulated Monopoly Was Always Uber’s Central Objective
Why Uber’s goal is replacing urban car service with a higher cost, less efficient operation that would extract wealth from the public.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Three: Understanding False Claims About Uber’s Innovation and Competitive Advantages
Why Uber does not have any significant competitive advantages save very deep pockets that allow it to engage in sustained predatory pricing.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Two: Understanding Uber’s Uncompetitive Costs
Why Uber is the taxi industry’s high cost producer and cannot grow into profitability.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part One – Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics
Uber’s financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no reason to expect significant improvement.
Read more...Oil Industry Worries About Peak Oil, as in Peak Demand
Some forward-thinking oil producers are worried about peak demand. Are their concerns warranted?
Read more...Will the Cost of a “Self-Driving Taxi” Really Be Sixty-Seven Cents ($0.67) a Mile? McKinsey’s Mysterious Footnote 17
A close reading of McKinsey’s report on self-driving cars.
Read more...Self-Driving Cars: How Badly Is the Technology Hyped?
Fully autonomous self-driving cars are many years away (“not in our lifetimes”). This has implications for how companies hyping them should be valued.
Read more...John Helmer: Did Hillary Clinton Take Money From Russia Oligarch Oleg Deripaska for a Favor in the General Motors-Opel Deal?
The curious tale of a Russian’s oligarch’s donation to the Clinton Foundation and his failed attempt to make an acquisition from General Motors.
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