<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Jordan Hosmer-Henner <<a href="mailto:jordanhh@gmail.com">jordanhh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto">Couldn’t it be more banal that American companies found a strategy that generated profit and shareholder value without improving the engineering of the car by focusing on the marketing and satisfaction of a want (big “powerful” cars) that didn’t require attention to detail or expensive research.</div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They also found a much better strategy: restrict competition in their markets via quotas and tariffs, thereby limiting consumer options so they didn’t have to innovate as much.<br><br></span><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>