When Illinois-based Caterpillar Inc. chose Georgia as the plant site for re-shoring small tractor production from Japan, the Midwestern state’s governor, Pat Quinn, complained, “We don’t have any oceanfront property in Illinois. … We met […] Read More
It started with a saw blade. In 1837, blacksmith John Deere fashioned the polished steel into a plow that could cleanly cut through the sticky soil of the Midwest. Five years later, he was making […] Read More
The trucks and pump trailers for hydraulic fracturing that Texas-based M.G. Bryan Equipment Co. sells and leases can cost as much as $1 million each. These vehicles operate in extreme, isolated environments and are expensive […] Read More
Not long after Bill Chisholm became CEO of metals distributor and manufacturer Samuel, Son & Co. last summer, a particular type of phone call started coming to his office in Mississauga, Ontario. Chisholm, hired by […] Read More
More than four years after the Great Recession, Americans are an unhappy, fractious lot.Much of the discord, according to public opinion polls, reflects a widening partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats on such issues as […] Read More
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