“What goes around, comes around.” It’s a dumb cliché, but it’s what I am seeing in the screw machine business…

Bernie Sahlins died over the weekend at 90. He was co-founder of Second City, Chicago’s famous comedy club, and is…

Father’s Day is coming up June 16, but what if you don’t have a Father to connect with anymore? My…

1) I find the trend of women and men choosing to produce and raise children without a partner to be…

Every month I get an emailed catalog from DelMonico Hatter, promoting their stylish hats — Borsalino, Stetson, Kangol — the…

This is an unpaid, unprompted shout-out to the Precision Machined Products Association’s (PMPA) Listserve. Every day, members jump on the…

I’ve closely studied two recent auctions of screw machines and ancillary equipment – Anderson Fittings in Chicago and MTTM in…

Tim Haendle was pleased with himself when I talked to him Wednesday. He had bought 100 carbide inserts – used…

I love the used machinery business because it is a competitive treasure hunt every day. It asks us for impossible…

So many nights I go home discouraged and numb, with the sickening feeling that I accomplished nothing and wasted my…