Future Sight

A Macro view on the economy, markets and business. This is the copyrighted property of Jonathan Rose Company, LLC 2004-2011 it is not in any way associated with Jonathan F.P. Rose or the Jonathan Rose Companies whose website can be found at rose-network.com

Diesel Vrs Hybrid Vrs Petrol Cars – The great deception

jonsyrose | November 24, 2007

I love to hear people talking about hybrids and buying them at many thousands of extra dollars! But do these people really understand what they are doing. a) MPG from EPA. To calculate the fuel economy of a vehicle in the US to the best of my knowledge the EPA uses a rolling road and [...]

Credit Card Credit Crisis

jonsyrose | November 24, 2007

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

Credit Card Credit Crisis

jonsyrose | November 4, 2007

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

Diesel Vrs Hybrid Vrs Petrol Cars – The great deception

jonsyrose | September 29, 2007

I love to hear people talking about hybrids and buying them at many thousands of extra dollars! But do these people really understand what they are doing. a) MPG from EPA. To calculate the fuel economy of a vehicle in the US to the best of my knowledge the EPA uses a rolling road and [...]