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Manufacturing & Technology News archives from November 2008
U.S. government finds thousands of counterfeits in weapons systems.
November 17, 2008... The United States military and the federal government's national security agencies are facing an unprecedented infiltration of counterfeit electronic chips, chipsets and components. In a comprehensive government-mandated survey of most of the...
Fair traders add to their numbers.(2008 Election Results)
November 17, 2008... The "fair trade" community that has worked for years to upend the current free-trade regime was in a state of unbridled joy after the Nov. 4 election. The trade issue played a major role in a radical transformation of the House and Senate, with...
Business community is hopeful.(2008 Election Results)
November 17, 2008... The Washington business policy and lobbying community is trying to make the most out of the November 4 election that swung heavily in favor of Democrats. Business lobbyists are rationalizing the loss by consoling themselves in the belief that...
Without manufacturing the economy teeters.(COMMENTARY)
November 17, 2008... I keep having a recurring vision of the American economy. It is vivid and it won't go away. It is of the World Trade Center towers getting hit by two commercial jetliners.
As I watched the Trade Center buildings burn on Sept. 11, 2001, I...
Quotable.(Quotation)
November 17, 2008... "I am a free market person until you're told that if you do not take decisive measures then it's conceivable that our country could go into a depression greater than the Great Depression."
--President George W. Bush, November 15, 2008
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New top dog (for now) at NIST.
November 17, 2008... The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a new man in charge, at least temporarily. Patrick Gallagher has taken over the reins of the agency from acting director Jim Turner who has left NIST to become deputy assistant secretary...
America's economic crisis is beyond the reach of traditional solutions.
November 17, 2008... By most accounts the U.S. economy is in serious trouble. Robert Reich, an adviser to President-elect Obama, calls it a "mini-depression," but that designation might be optimistic. Russian economist Mikhail Khazin says that the "U.S. will soon...
Obama outlines trade agenda, and China reacts.
November 17, 2008... President-elect Barack Obama issued a ringing endorsement of a "fair trade" agenda shortly before the Nov. 4 election. In a signed written response to a policy inquiry from the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), Obama said he...
Auto companies abandon 'free-market' mantra.
November 17, 2008... I have little sympathy for the U.S. automobile industry. Like most Americans I am torn--though not much--between my emotional side (let the Big Three die because they deserve to) and my rational side (bail them out lest our economy sink quickly...
Quotable: Ronald Reagan.(Quotation)
November 17, 2008... "The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in...