Light Truck Sales -- Highest In Almost 15 Years -- Making America Great -- June 5, 2019

Light truck sales: in the US, highest since July, 2005. Link here. Stand-alone post later. Data points:

• light truck sales: 9.92 million units in May, seasonally adjusted
• highest rate since July, 2005 
• April, 2019: 9.20 million units
• May, 2018, 8.99 million units
• major US producers Ford and GM are focusing on producing light trucks, to include SUVs and EVs, as they move away from less profitable sedans
• GM: 80% of 1Q19 sales -- trucks and crossover vehicles
• but look at this: light trucks including SUVs rose to 12.53 million units 

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The Book Page

Books for this next week:

• The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More Than 100 Years of Covering The Expanding Universe, edited by Cornelia Dean, c. 2013
• Classic Feynman: All The Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman, edited by Ralph Leighton, c. 2006

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The Magazine Page

Last week I mentioned that The New Yorker  seemed to be "getting better," with less evidence of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I spoke too soon. I'm glad I have not re-subscribed. The cover cartoon is of Trump -- and not in a pleasant or flattering way, and an inside joke that few will "get" this week and no one will "get" five years from now. The main article this week: on Beto. You have got to be kidding. Of all the things and all the people to review, they chose Beto?

For the record, Beto's polling less than 4%. We will check in two weeks from today and see how The New Yorker article helped him.