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Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...
...Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, an Akron suburb. As a high school student, he was a fan of heavy metal bands like AC/DC, whose lyrics dot his high school yearbook. He is 35 years...
Walk past the front desk of the MAC. Take a left through the doors, walk down an office-filled hallway, and go through the imposingly heavy metal entrance. Hike up two flights of steep stairs...
...reflexes, and he got really good, but he talked so much about it that I got sick of it. So I had a beaten-up Porsche shell delivered to his porch for his 50th birthday. He never said anything, but not long after, I found a crate of molten metal delivered to the living room of my (rented) house. It dented the floor. I then had it turned into a really ugly sculpture and dropped into his garden. To this day, neither one of us has ever mentioned...
...average 60-month new-car loan is priced at 7.10%, not much different from in the spring, according to HSH Associates, Financial Publishers. Those 0%-financing deals still exist too, from automakers desperate to move the metal. But you're not going to get that rate (or maybe any) unless your credit score is north of 700; a year ago, 620 might have gotten you wheels. Even people with good credit are starting to see trouble. The dealer network AutoNation reports that approval rates for that group have dropped to roughly 60% from 90% a year...