November 2007 - Posts

• Nothing new here

  Not long after I began to take a professional interest in metalcasting, I started to get a steady delivery of e-mailed links to a series of articles in the New York Times . The messages were more or less in synch with the appearance of the stories documenting Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Thanksgiving favorites

  Every year around this time I talk to one or two people who tell me that Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday, and sometimes they go further to explain to me why that is: no rushing and fussing, like Christmas; lots of good food and free time; an extra Read More... Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 10:01 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• Uncle Sam wants us

  I’ve been getting increasingly urgent messages from the U.S. Census Bureau, “encouraging” me to encourage FM&T readers and visitors to cooperate with their effort by responding to census forms that will be delivered in December. Sometime next month, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:13 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• How confident are you?

  One of the most valuable insights I learned in Economics 01 was the notion that money and markets are guided by human decisions. A contented population with the ability to access and circulate information will generally be prosperous, too. This is, I Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:06 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• He said it, not me

  I try to offer opinions that have value, but when foundry owners and operators talk, I listen, because even when they're torqued up about something I've written or said I figure that their experience gives them some insight that I ought to consider. When Read More... Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 9:56 AM by REB | 0 Comments