Lloyd Graff
Industry Scuttlebutt
The news that Japan will show a net deficit in trade for 2011 is another signal of a shifting economy that currently favors North American manufacturing. Europe is in a [...]
My Dinner With Newt
I just returned from a long weekend of political-tourism in Charleston, South Carolina. It didn’t start out as a Newt-Mitt chocolate kind of trip, it just happened. My oldest son [...]
No No No No!
Should I plan as if I am going to live forever, or like I’m living on borrowed time? None of us really knows how long we will be allotted on [...]
A Machinist’s Education
Recently I had a long conversation with Tom Peters of Symbol Job Training Inc., a CNC operator training school in Skokie, IL (a Chicago suburb). For $5,340 his firm will [...]
My Predictions for 2012
It is so hard to make solid predictions about the economy for 2012 because unpredictable events like the earthquake-tsunami in Japan and the floods in Thailand in 2011 will always [...]
Making a Beautiful Life
The wonderful definitive biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson spends many pages on the close collaboration between Jobs and his Chief Designer, Jony Ive. Ive was the brains behind [...]
Looking back at 2011. Ahead to 2012.
Wow, what an interesting and surprising year. Osama Bin Laden knocked off. Muammar Gadhafi whacked. Kim Jong-il dead. Tough year for bad guys. Mubarak in jail, Bashar al-Assad in big [...]
Tim Tebow. Enough Already?
I’ve been anxious to see Tim Tebow, the controversial Denver Broncos quarterback people love to hate because he is unabashedly committed to his religious faith and fearlessly shows it to [...]
Is College a Waste of Time and Money?
I had an opportunity to interview James Altucher, a writer, Web guy, venture capitalist, stock picker, who has a big following as a blogger. We discussed a lot of topics, [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
If Mitt Romney does decently in Iowa and wins New Hampshire he has the Republican nomination. If Newt Gingrich wins Iowa and is respectable in New Hampshire he has a [...]