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Hot Dog For IMTS!
By Lloyd Graff The bi-annual IMTS gripefest will be upon us in half a year. An article in the February 5th Chicago Tribune documents why people hate McCormick Place. Stupid [...]
Fadal and the Walkman
By Lloyd and Noah Graff Thirty years ago, the first Sony Walkman hit the market and revolutionized the portable music world. For $200 a middle class consumer was finally liberated from [...]
Thank God for Guns and Ammo!
By Lloyd Graff With the machining community so riddled with woe at the moment, the guns and ammo boomlet is manna from heaven. It’s a great time to be [...]
Would a new CEO do better than Wagoner?
By Noah Graff What would a new management team do to change the fortunes of GM if Rick Wagoner and his team were ousted? Can a new management team improve [...]
The End of Detroit as we know it
By Lloyd Graff What a day for Detroit. Old John Dingell, the pugnacious congressman from Motown lost his Jewel, the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell is 82, [...]
Paul Eisenstein on automaker bailout
By Lloyd Graff I talked to Paul Eisenstein, TMW’s resident auto guru in Detroit. He is pessimistic about a bailout for the domestic car builders. He sees the legislation caught [...]
New Credit Game for Industrial Equipment
By Lloyd Graff I think we got an important signal Tuesday when Bank of America decided not to raise credit lines for McDonalds franchisees to buy new equipment such as [...]
IMTS Video Tour of Chicago!
Today’s Machining World has produced a video that will give you insider tips on using public transportation to get from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago and then from downtown to [...]
Self-reliant Retirement Philosophy
A recent survey from Charles Schwab, showed that a growing number of young American workers believe that the government is not going to take care of them in retirement. According [...]
Free Trade Flip-Flopping
In the following video video TheStreet.com’s political analyst John Fout points out free trade issues which he believes both presidential candidates have flip-flopped on. He says that in the democratic [...]