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  • Some Post-Election Analysis

    Just came back from a US Chamber/Leading Authorities event featuring election analysts Charlie Cook and Stu Rothenberg . Both had interesting takes on the recent elections: Charlie said that, while the GOP needs to regroup and determine where it's heading in the future, he doesn't think any Republican...
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  • The Open Source Smart Grid

    At the Department of Energy Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration Peer Review last week, dozens of DoE grant recipients showed the public what they've been doing with our tax dollars. One of the more innovative projects was GridLAB-D , an open-source platform to test new smart grid techniques...
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  • HR 1 in the New Congress? Bound to be Card Check

    Our annual membership meeting, Illuminations Weekend , has come and gone, but the memory of some of the discussions remains -- and in particular, the almost non-stop focus of the CEOs on one issue: "card check," or as US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue prefers to call it, "the end...
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  • The Multiplier Effect

    Top execs from the Big Three automakers come to Washington this week to make a pitch for a federal infusion of cash to save their companies. Whether you think the government should prop those companies up or let them fall -- and the NAM has come out in favor of providing some relief -- their successes...
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  • Obama's CEA Chair Should Provide Economic Balance

    Business advocates are among those most pleased with President-elect Barack Obama's decision to named Christina Romer as the head of his Council of Economic Advisors . Conservative economist Greg Mankiw called it "an excellent choice." One thing that has a lot of people excited is that...
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  • Counterfeits Can Kill!

    So many critical issues face our members these days, from a devastating housing slump that has choked off demand for some electrical products, to a global recession combined with an increasingly strong dollar that will reduce member exports, to a credit crunch that is hurting our small manufacturers...
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  • On Second Thought, We Do

    For a while now, Costa Rica has been more than a little hesitant to ratify its free trade agreement with the United States. Never mind that "DR-CAFTA" (the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement) has already been negotiated, passed by the U.S. Congress, and implemented with...
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  • Of Deflation and Depressions

    Large declines in the CPI and PPI during October have prompted a flurry of concerns that deflation may be taking hold. Add to that, a host of lousy economic data such as the recent spikes in unemployment insurance claims , declines in consumer spending and tumbles in manufacturing activity and talk of...
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  • Amazing Facts about DICOM

    DICOM is the name of a very unusual standard. You won't be surprised to learn that this name is an acronym for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. However, you might be surprised to learn that the DICOM Standard : Has proved itself over a 15 year period. (This standard really works.)...
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  • Recession May Slow But Won't Stop Smart Grid

    Jesse Berst of the Smart Grid Newsletter wonders whether the recession will kill the Smart Grid. In today's "Grid Automation" column , he details reasons why it might and reasons why it won't. He says a recession might kill Smart Grid because (1) utilities can't afford to pass the...
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