Politics
My Dinner With Newt
I just returned from a long weekend of political-tourism in Charleston, South Carolina. It didn’t start out as a Newt-Mitt chocolate kind of trip, it just happened. My oldest son [...]
A Plan for Iran
I had a chance to talk to Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board on Sunday. In my opinion, Stephens is one of the most astute observers of [...]
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 [...]
Is the economic tornado blowing over?
By Lloyd Graff, At least three times per summer we hear the sirens blare, signaling the possibility of a tornado in our vicinity. We take cover in the basement or [...]
A Renaissance in Detroit
By Noah Graff Last week I went to Detroit to shoot a video spot for an advertiser of Today’s Machining World. A melancholy vibe permeated the city that I can [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]