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January 19, 2025July 4, 2025Globalization, Management, Manufacturing, Operations, Trump Trade War

Mfg. History: Die Change Challenge

With the looming Trump Trade War in the background, I’ve been working through stuff I accumulated over the years and every so often, a forgotten nugget pops up. From 1985 to 1992, an automotive trade magazine (Chilton’s Automotive Industries – now Automotive Industries) sponsored an […]

January 18, 2025January 19, 2025Trump Trade War

Trump’s Trade War: Waiting at the Go Line

As the clock runs down to Jan 20 and the Trump inauguration, I’m having flashbacks to Feb 20ish, 2022, when the world was waiting to see whether Vladimir Putin really meant to invade Ukraine. At the time, many pundits offered desperately hopeful predictions that “Putin […]