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  • Time to Relax

    Since I am in long-weekend mode already, and don't want to interrupt the reverie by pointing out that firm signs of economic recovery remain elusive, I thought I'd direct readers to some interesting takes on two important policy issues: cap-and-trade and health care. On the health care debate, Harvard's Greg Mankiw presents a nice discussion...

  • Americans Understand the Need for a Competitive Manufacturing Base

    Good news coming out of a recent Deloitte survey , undertaken in conjunction with The Manufacturing Institute . Americans still view manufacturing as the most important industry for a strong national economy. Almost three-fourths of respondents viewed manufacturing as a national priority. Why is it a national priority? Simply put, a manufacturing presence...

  • BBQ, Fireworks and Tea Parties

    For most Americans, Independence Day is a time to gather with family and friends to celebrate the birth of the United States and to honor the brave men and women whose sacrifices secured our freedom. We fire up the grill, chill the beer, don our red, white and blue, sing along to patriotic tunes, and “ooh” and “aah” over fireworks...

  • Daytime Lamps Not Required

    In this morning's Federal Register you may not have noticed an item having to do with automobile safety. After eight years, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a denial of a petition by General Motors to require all cars in the U.S. under 5 tons to have daytime running lamps. DOT, through its own studies, has not been able to find an...
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  • Happy 100th!

    Wednesday marked the release of the 100th edition of NEMA's Electroindustry Business Confidence Index report. The EBCI tracks the evolution of business conditions facing the electroindustry in North America and three other world regions, as seen through the eyes of senior executives of NEMA member companies. Perhaps the most interesting component...
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  • Batteries as a future energy source?

    I was recently at a meeting hosted by at the Capital Visitors Center titled "Building a Bigger Battery." The panel presented ideas that get little attention and few people hear about. They discussed the use of batteries being energized through renewable energies to be of prominent use in the future electricity grid across the states. Dr. Ali...

  • Yes, It's Still Out There...

    To say that Washington is a busy place this summer is an understatement. Congress is still negotiating a deal to bring energy and climate change legislation to the floor. Numerous Senate and House committees are combing their way through hundreds of pages of legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. The Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations...
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  • The Tough Times Continue

    We can now clearly say that this is the manufacturing sector's deepest downturn since the dark days of the Great Depression (see the charts below for evidence). While the blood-letting will probably continue for some time, a few regional Fed surveys ( here , for example) and NEMA's very own Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) suggest...
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  • The High Cost of Fixing our High-Cost Health Care

    This week the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee begins its consideration of the "Affordable Health Choices Act," draft legislation sponsored by Senate HELP Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT). This legislation, which requires individuals to have health care coverage and paves...
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  • Happy High Performance Building Week!

    It's High Performance Building Week! I hope you've chosen to commemorate the event appropriately. Or perhaps you've been too caught up in other important affairs -- high school graduations, summer vacations, walking the dog -- to have gotten wind of this momentous occasion. For the record, the honor was announced in early June, when the...
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