Cash For Clunkers

In a discouraging post mortem, it turns out neither the U.S. economy nor the environment really benefited from the 2009 “cash for clunkers” car-trading scheme.

• By Emily Badger

Graph shows that the U.S. government's effort to shift car buyers to higher-efficiency vehicles was anything but a "Buy American" campaign.

• By David Sparks

Rebates for energy-efficient appliances don't stand up to the economic analysis that, until now, no one bothered to do.

• By Elisabeth Best

A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.

• By Michael Todd

The Germans already have a program for taking gas guzzlers off the road and replacing them with shiny new cars, but there are some bumps in the road.

• By Michael Scott Moore