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Is 2025 the End of Cam Screw Machines? EP 257

Is an Acme-Gridley the mink coat of machine tools? A well made product that still does a great job, but nobody wants another one. In 2025? No. Not yet. On today’s podcast, Lloyd and I talk about our used machinery business over the last year. We saw one customer drop 20

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Immigrants Welcome

Just got back from Spain and Scandinavia last week, traveling on business with a little bit of pleasure thrown in. During my travels it was

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French Vanilla

Emanuel Macron is the new President of France. He is a political newcomer who saw an opening in a divided dispirited country of 80 million

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Goodbye Columbus

I found last week’s Precision Machining Technology Show (PMTS) in Columbus an exhilarating and exhausting experience. It was exhilarating because for the first time in

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Beds, Banks and Beyond

The economy is always hard to figure out, but we seem to be in an especially baffling period for both professional economists and amateur business

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