Noah Graff
Top Metal Predictions for 2010
Top Metal Predictions for the rest of 2010 (The Street.com)
In 2010 gold is up 6.8%, silver is up 4.8%, and copper is down 12%. In this video, Wayne Atwell, managing [...]
Life’s Work–Life’s Pleasure
By Lloyd Graff
I just spent a week doing the most inefficient, labor-intensive, stupidly expensive, appallingly large carbon footprint use of my time I can think of. I schlepped to California [...]
You Need to Be Paranoid
By Noah Graff
I recently came across a hysterical YouTube video satirizing the screw-ups by BP management as they try to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. In [...]
7 unlikely beneficiaries of the BP oil spill
7 Unlikely Beneficiaries of the BP Oil Spill
1. Charlie Crist
The Florida governor’s leadership in addressing the Gulf oil spill has paid off in the polls, says John McCormack [...]
From the World Coal Institute
From the World Coal Institute
South Africa is the country most dependent on coal world wide, generating 94% of its electricity (in 2007)
Coal provides 26% of global primary energy needs and [...]
African Lean: Pioneering Precision Machining in Ghana, Africa
By Emily Aniakou
In 2007-08 I spent a year in Benin, West Africa, as a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps. Although Africa is easy to write off as [...]
Oil Spill Numbers
From the Wall Street Journal
LONDON—BP PLC on Monday said it has continued to increase the amount of oil it is collecting from the Gulf of Mexico spill as [...]
Making the Call (Afterthought: May 2010)
For almost 10 years I’ve lived the schizoid life of a machinery dealer and writer/publisher. Both jobs stoke my intellectual furnace with firewood. I feel like I’m usually on top [...]
Anniversary Ideas
By Lloyd Graff
This weekend I’m celebrating my 40th wedding anniversary with my wife Risa. We’re spending the weekend in Chicago, having dinner with our children tonight and catching a play [...]