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This week we saw something that hadn’t happened in over a year: growth in real GDP. Indeed, real GDP expanded 3.5 percent on an annualized basis during the third quarter, bolstered by consumer spending, business equipment spending, housing construction and exports. In a bit of a statistical quirk...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 3:07 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics, economic stimulus

Thermostat Recycling Corporation Increases Awareness and Participation

Do you recycle? Are you interested in recycling? Questions like these encouraged a wide variety of answers at the 2009 Ace Hardware Convention in Atlanta, Georgia this past weekend. The Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) participated in this massive expo for Ace Hardware retailers with one goal in...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 12:45 PM by Bilicki, Bobby

Filed under: Education and Training, recycling, thermostats

Spreading Smart Grid Across North America

As evidence of NEMA's continued influence in international markets, the Commerce Department announced this week that our organization received one of five new Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) awards for 2010-2013. This is NEMA's second MDCP award from Commerce -- the first, which...

Published Thu, Oct 29 2009 8:53 AM by golds

Filed under: Smart Grid, Trade

AFCI’s - A Little Opposition Can be Good

Each cycle of State adoptions of the National Electrical Code ® tends to focus on a couple of key changes in the NEC. For NEC 2008 those key changes are Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCIs) and tamper proof receptacles. Surprisingly this is having significant benefits for the electrical industry...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 3:40 PM by Winstanley, Gerard

Filed under: AFCI, Fire Safety, Tamper Resistant Receptacles, 2008 NEC

Running the Public Option

In American-style football, a quarterback who " runs the option " receives the ball, runs either right or left (accompanied by another offensive player), and, depending on the opposing defense's strategy, either laterals the ball to his accompanying player to avoid a tackle or keeps the...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:09 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Health Care, Town Halls, Public Option

Putting Belief into Action

What does the Obama Administration think about international trade? I was pleased to hear two Administration officials over the past couple of days endorse the importance of expanding U.S. companies' access to foreign markets. But on the policy side, this belief is not yet being translated into action...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 11:50 AM by updykec

Filed under: Trade

Jobless Recovery Redux

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s macroblog provides a good look at the evidence that points to the likelihood that the emerging recovery will be a jobless one. First, despite what has been an appreciable improvement in corporate profits during the third quarter, businesses have chosen to hold...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 4:30 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Still Such a Thing as the American Dream?

"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement....It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 2:02 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: American Dream

Will Manufacturing Czar Actually Help Manufacturers?

" Bloom vows to boost manufacturing ," shouted the headline in the Detroit News last week. This should be significant, considering that Ron Bloom was tapped to be the senior counselor for manufacturing policy (aka, the manufacturing czar) by the president in early September. The article even...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 9:49 AM by golds

Filed under: manufacturing

Nanotechnology for NEMA member product industries closer than you might think

TC 113 U.S. Technical Advisory Group Chair Dr. Brent Segal , Lockheed Martin Corp ., tells me that there are 2 camps when it comes to nanotechnology advancement; those that think nano is 10 years away, and those that have already been producing nano-enabled products for 10 years. A new IEC Technical...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 10:35 AM by leibowitzm

Filed under: Nanotechnology, manufacturing

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