Economy
Manufacturing in Thailand – the “Detroit of the East”
Emily Halgrimson, Today’s Machining World’s Managing Editor, was invited to join 11 other journalists from the U.S. and Canada (six in the automotive sector and six in the food industry sector) by [...]
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 [...]
Why is my business so good if the economy is so bad?
I attended the Precision Machined Products Association’s annual meeting in Austin over the weekend. The question I heard often was, “Why is my business so good if the economy is [...]
More Employed, but Same Unemployment
By Lloyd Graff The $64 billion dollar question for the economy is, what happens to employment? What happens to unemployment is related, but the two numbers do not always shift [...]
Starbucks Betrayed My Wife
By Lloyd Graff Call it the frap flap but Starbucks is pulling the New Coke. Evidently the Buck is feeling the pain from McDonald’s competitive and cheaper McCafé, in tampering [...]
Is Efficiency Sometimes Unhealthy?
By Noah Graff For the May issue of Today’s Machining World, I interviewed Carl Hoffman, author of the new book, the Lunatic Express. The book chronicles Hoffman’s travels throughout Asia, [...]
Is an advanced degree still a key to prosperity?
By Emily Halgrimson Not long ago completion of an advanced degree was assumed to lead to a higher wage, but this isn’t always the case today. With jobs hard to [...]
To Your Good Health – Insurance
By Lloyd Graff First of all, I consider myself an Independent fiscally conservative Republican. I voted for Reagan, Dole and George Bush (both of them). But I am disgusted with [...]
Obama’s Subsidies will Benefit Foreign Manufacturing more than Us
By Lloyd Graff The cross currents of job growth, environmental protection, energy and raw material security for the United States make for a public policy jumble. The Obama administration is [...]