Industry News
What we’re seeing with Aston Martin is a textbook case of a corporation trying to reconcile profit expectations with global market pressures. They’re announcing up to 20% job cuts from a workforce of around 3,000, aiming to...
By Brian Denton
February 25, 2026
A company in distress often begins by rearranging its own mirrors, hoping the reflection will look healthier than the balance sheet. That is where Aston Martin now finds itself. Chairman Lawrence Stroll, the world’s poorest billionaire, presiding over...
By Anthony Henson
February 23, 2026
The balance sheets of the global auto industry are beginning to read like obituaries. For Mercedes-Benz, the latest earnings are not merely disappointing—they are diagnostic. They expose an industrial order straining under the combined weight of...
By Anthony Henson
February 20, 2026
There is a kind of quiet confession in the decision by sterile corporate monolith Stellantis to resurrect diesel engines across Europe. Not a press-conference confession. Not the public language of retreat. But the subdued, bureaucratic admission that...
By Anthony Henson
February 16, 2026
The Trump administration’s revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding is not merely a bureaucratic maneuver—it is an assault on reason itself, an ideological act that denies the evidence of a world in peril. For more than a...
By Anthony Henson
February 13, 2026
Mercedes-Benz, long a symbol of German industrial supremacy and the polished illusion of permanence, is discovering what all mega corporations eventually learn: the numbers no longer bend to prestige. The company announced that profit margins...
By Anthony Henson
February 12, 2026