Only DC Can Make S&P Look Smart Standard & Poors - the credit rating folks who just downgraded the United States - are a gang of egg-headed f…

The big pharmaceuticals, (notoriously inept) J&J, Pfizer, Merck, Glaxosmithklein and others are laying off left and right and chattering loudly ab…

in 1894 Bud Hillerich got serious about baseball bats and his father in law's woodworking company registered the name 'Louisville Slugger'…

Those who suggest the government should play a stronger role in directing manufacturing endeavors should pause when they look at this - the logo f…

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 particularly impr…

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 th…

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 thought…

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 the taxpayers'…