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Shippers Dumped Thousands of Workers, We Dumped UPS

UPS, Amazon, and FedEx are all fully engaged in their annual employee purge. UPS says it is cutting 48,000 jobs in 2025–34,000 in management and 14,000 in operations.  This might explain why Graff-Pinkert’s Wickman spare parts business was getting tariffed 200% on imports from England rather than the 10% rate

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Rocket Men

I’ve always thought space travel was cool and interesting, particularly as a kid, but I seldom romanticized it like so many other people do. I

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Current Change

How do you deal with change? I’m talking BIG CHANGE. Existential change in the way you do business. We are witnessing it being played out

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A Patient’s Perspective

Today I get to do my twenty-first straight day of radiation treatment. Don’t feel sorry for me at all, this is my fortunate opportunity to

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Man of Steel?

The tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration on foreign steel and aluminum are an intriguing bargaining chip from a macro economic standpoint, but a

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32 Pounds Ago

I have lost 32 pounds over the last four months, and I am stunned. It has not been that hard to do once I decided

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All the Wrong Places

The conventional wisdom is that “I need employees, but I can’t find them.” This seems odd to me. I’ve been hearing the same lament for

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