After driving a Chinese EV for several weeks, Wall Street Journal technology columnist Joanna Stern wrote that she would prefer never to buy an American-made vehicle again.
If middle-class Americans fully understood why their counterparts in China can buy far more technologically advanced vehicles for considerably less, the reaction here would be anything but complacent.
The biggest threat to journalism isn’t President Trump. It’s what corporate journalists have become.
At General Motors and Ford, litigation is no longer a side effect of doing business. It is a core business function.
The résumés of the lawyers running point at both automakers reflect how central legal strategy has become.
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
Some thoughts on Ponzi schemes, perfectly legal Wall Street products that burn retail investors, and why doctors and small business owners are often the easiest targets.
Josh Allen lost a playoff game and took responsibility.
Mary Barra presided over billions in EV losses and said she had no regrets.
This isn’t about football or automobiles. It’s about how leaders respond when outcomes can no longer be spun — and how accountability often seems easier to find in locker rooms than on CNBC.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is among Wall Street’s — and the media’s — most admired executives, closely identified with the bank he has led for nearly two decades.
President Trump, however, is no admirer of Dimon’s stewardship of America’s largest bank.
Here’s why Trump’s promised lawsuit alleging JPMorgan debanked him for political reasons — along with the president’s broader pressure on banking practices — could open a level of scrutiny Dimon’s admirers don’t yet appreciate.
Among the questions such scrutiny could raise: why JPMorgan severed ties with Trump while continuing to bank Jeffrey Epstein until 2013, despite internal objections from some senior executives.
Josh Shapiro’s vetting during Kamala Harris’s 2024 vice-presidential search revealed more about the Democratic campaign and its top legal adviser than about Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor.
Canada’s Mark Carney has said bonjour to China’s EV manufacturers. It may mean au revoir to GM and Ford’s EV ambitions.
Never in a million years did I expect I’d trust a robot over a human driver.
But after years of rising prices, declining service, and watching Uber enrich its CEO while degrading both drivers and riders, I found myself choosing Waymo — reluctantly at first, then repeatedly.
This isn’t a tech love letter. It’s a story about how Uber hollowed out ride sharing so thoroughly that automation began to feel like relief.
Car dealerships are deservedly among the most distrusted businesses in America. So when I was told this past weekend that my six-year-old, out-of-warranty vehicle needed a major engine repair, I braced for the worst.
The bill never materialized. I don’t know why Subaru absorbed the cost, and I didn’t press my luck by asking. Given how rare that outcome has become in the car business, the experience was worth noting.