• August 12th, 2013

    Alex Rodriguez suspended from baseball through 2014 in doping inquiry.” The guy has been paid (common sense prohibits me from saying he earned it) in excess of [...]

  • March 1st, 2013

    On 2/21 the Conference Board Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) was reported to have risen 0.2 percent in January, to 94.1 (2004 = 100), following a 0.5[...]

  • February 22nd, 2013

    Last Friday (2/15) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system issued a revision to the January 2013 industrial production numbers which showed a contr[...]

  • January 11th, 2013

    A few headlines from the Metals Service Center Institute North American Manufacturing Advocacy News 01/07/2013: “Last week we noted that the fiscal cliff deal r[...]

  • December 21st, 2012

    Happy days ... today marks the first day of winter. We have not had any measurable snow in Cleveland yet this season, however, a strong storm is bearing down on[...]

  • December 11th, 2012

    I will be writing from my annual vacation perch in Los Cabos for the next few weeks as I re-charge the old battery. That being said,I will not have the convenie[...]