Noah Graff
Why We’re Fat, and the Fattening of the American Machine Tool Industry
by Emily Halgrimson Every time I leave the U.S. for a time, I lose significant weight. Inevitably when I return, it comes back. Outside of the States I don’t spend [...]
The Simple Things
by Emily Halgrimson There’s nothing like an ailing economy to force people to enjoy the simple things in life. While cutting back on satellite radio subscriptions, trimming cell phone bills [...]
What if we just gave the bailout money to the people?
By Noah Graff What if instead of giving all the bailout money to the reckless, untrustworthy banks and incompetent automakers our government just gave the money to the people? I’m [...]
Interview with John Griner of Griner Engineering
This is an excerpt from the Today’s Machining World interview in the February issue with John Griner of Griner Engineering. He discusses his experiences as a job shop producing automotive [...]
Will China keep investing here?
By September 2008, China had owned 585 billion U.S. dollars in U.S. government bonds, becoming the largest creditor of the world’s largest economy, according to the latest statistics from China’s [...]
Is our economy a modern day version of "Atlas Shrugged"?
By Noah Graff A recent column in the Wall Street Journal made a comparison of U.S. government policies in the present economy to those in the classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, [...]
Does downsizing stifle new ideas?
By Noah Graff, Mitchell Lee Marks, a teacher at College of Business at San Francisco State University, wrote an editorial in today’s New York Times challenging an often used company [...]
Waterjetting in Boston
The Celtics lost for the sixth time in eight games last night. Although that may be depressing for Bostonians, it’s a lot less gloomy news than what’s going on in [...]
Custom Made Plugin Hyrid Car
It appears that U.S. gasoline prices are headed over $2 again, and before long, Americans will likely again be feeling the urgency for better fuel economy as they did in [...]
Has GM given up on its dream?
By Noah Graff General Motors is suspending work on the $370 million factory slated to build engines for the Chevrolet Volt, but says the plug-in hybrid will appear in showrooms [...]