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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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Delivered

Making sense about the economy today. As I travel the 15 minutes from my home to work I see four vacant strip malls. Maybe a

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Where Did My Day Go?

Lloyd and Noah Graff are on vacation this week. Here is a favorite Swarfblog from July 10, 2015. Americans on average spend 7.4 hours staring

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Phone Call to the Dead

Lloyd and Noah Graff are on vacation this week. Here is a favorite Swarfblog from the archive. Phone Call to the Dead September 29, 2016

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Inclining with Age

Over the course of one week I will have had the opportunity to watch two of the greatest athletes of all time compete at the

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