by BILL WADDELL Only DC Can Make S&P Look Smart Standard & Poors - the credit rating folks who just downgraded the United States - are a gan…

by BILL WADDELL The big pharmaceuticals, (notoriously inept) J&J, Pfizer, Merck, Glaxosmithklein and others are laying off left and right and cha…

by BILL WADDELL in 1894 Bud Hillerich got serious about baseball bats and his father in law's woodworking company registered the name 'Louisv…

by BILL WADDELL Those who suggest the government should play a stronger role in directing manufacturing endeavors should pause when they look at this…

by BILL WADDELL A guy by the name of Harold Sirkin wrote a pretty good piece for Bloomberg Business Week called Made in the USA - and China.  What is…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past several years I've taken Boeing to task, sometimes severely, on their 787 Dreamliner program.  By now we know that t…

Our friend Bob Emiliani runs an ongoing ad on fellow blogger Mark Graban's Lean Blog that pokes a bit of fun at various lean glitterati.  I though…

by BILL WADDELL Now let's get this straight:  GM took $45 billion in tax breaks.  It's stock is at the lowest point since the IPO which makes…