Clearly, high gasoline prices took quite a toll on the typical consumer.

This is the fourth consecutive monthly increase in manufacturing output and confirms that a manufacturing cyclical rebound is finally underway.

We're producing as many engineers and scientists as South Korea -- an economy about one-tenth the size of ours.

He was well-versed about the issues we talked about - health care costs, regulatory costs and things of that nature. I have a sense he had a pretty good handle on the real-world issues.

We're making more stuff with fewer people.

You can't blame China for everything. There are a lot of problems that manufacturers have to face.