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The natural gas revolution reversing LNG tanker trade
Courtesy of The Washington Post. COVE POINT, Md. — A vast dock stands a mile offshore here, its concrete legs planted in the water and its steel tentacles poised to [...]
Concentration Camp Tourism
Thirteen years ago I visited Hell for two hours and then boarded a bus to a local hotel. My wife Risa and her friend Judy were taking a winter holiday [...]
In World of Big Stuff, the U.S. Still Rules
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. PEORIA, Ill.—Robert LeTourneau, a roving American evangelist and inventor, decided in the mid-1930s that a plot of lakefront land a mile and a half [...]
Manufacturing: The new maker rules
Courtesy of The Economist. “YOU can carry your own head in your hand,” enthuses Bre Pettis, inviting customers to try out a three-dimensional photo booth that will scan their head [...]
As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price
Courtesy of The NY Times. In the end, the money that towns across America gave General Motors did not matter. When the automaker released a list of factories it was [...]
Is the Skills Gap Just A Pay Problem?
Let’s rethink the infamous “skills gap” that is almost as common in conversation in our machining clan as “the fiscal cliff.” Maybe the skills gap is partly a “pay gap.” [...]
Selling a Machine Tool Museum
Peter Bowman owns a small job shop near Green Bay, Wisconsin. He wrote me an email Monday asking for advice on how to sell the assortment of manual machine tools [...]
With Ban on Drilling Practice, Town Lands in Thick of Dispute
Courtesy of The New York Times. LONGMONT, Colo. — This old farming town near the base of the Rocky Mountains has long been considered a conservative next-door neighbor to the [...]
A Christmas “Gift” From Sears
Sears is a dwarf of the consumer superpower it used to be when it was the place you first thought of to do your shopping for a washing machine or [...]
Housing on Fire
I have spent a lifetime playing the cyclical market for screw machines. And I still screw up. By focusing on the BIG PICTURE – unemployment, Europe’s recession, the fiscal cliff, [...]