Rod Hunter has a good column this morning titled The Democrats and Trade. I purposely won't delve into the political side of the article, although…

The short time horizons of most public company investors have long dogged lean manufacturing turnaround efforts. Real lean takes time, measured in yea…

Regular readers know that onshoring has been a favorite topic of ours. Swimming upstream against the flow of lemmings chasing low labor costs around t…

Today is a momentus day, a day that has created fundamental change in how I work, a day that finally arrived after years of growing frustration and ag…

Before I begin, readers (and especially family and friends) should not derive any subtle conclusions from the topic! Believe me, there is nothing to a…

Don Boudreaux's Cafe Hayek blog is one of my favorites, and a daily read. His commonsense approach to economics is perhaps a similar style to our…

Many of you also read Mark's Lean Blog and may have noticed that it isn't available today.  Apparently his blog host made some changes that me…

Over the last couple years we've occasionally chronicled how government financial policies can create flights of knowledge. Fundamentally people m…