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State Of The Industry & Economy Locally & Globally: Managing Through Turbulent Times, 2020 ChemTreat Primary Metals Water Treatment Seminar, Clearwater Beach, FL, Jan 2020

SteelmaWHAT?!? The End Is Not Nigh But Success Comes Through Re-Invention; Overcoming Challenges To Survive And Thrive, Met Coke World Summit 2019, Nashville, TN, Nov 2019

Recession? Armageddon? The Destruction Of Capitalism? The End Of Life On Planet Earth? Discerning Truths Amidst Hyperbole, AIST SE Chapter, Roanoke, VA, Oct 2019

Solving The Puzzle Of How To Succeed In Today’s Oversupplied Steel Industry: Innovating To Excel, BIR World Recycling Convention, Budapest, Oct 2019

Arctic Chill? Or Red Hot Chili Peppers? A Tale Of Two Conflicting Realities, ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor Ironmaking Team, Mar 2019

Seven Sevens: Seeking, Thinking, Searching For Hidden Market Truths, AIST/AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting, Nov 2018

Due Stati, Cinque Citta; The Heartland Of American Manufacturing, AWMI Quad Cities Chapter Meeting, Oct 2018

Disruptive Technologies And Big Data Are Broadening Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Beyond Bricks & Mortar; The Information Revolution Continues Value Creation Started By The Industrial Revolution 200 Years Ago; Engineering Growing Young, AIST Philadelphia Chapter Meeting, York, PA, Sep 2018

Babel Revisited: Does Economic Disengagement Signal The End Of Globalization?, Bar Producers, Jordan & Egypt, May 2018

Fifty Shades Of Gray: Virginia Is For Lovers; Steel Is For Masochists, AIST SE Chapter Meeting, Richmond, VA, Oct 2017

Lions, Tigers & Elephants: Harnessing The Raw Power Of An Improving Global Steel Cycle, BIR World Recycling Convention, New Delhi, Oct 2017

USA Wire Using Manufacturers Would Get Fenced Out Of The Domestic Market By A “Protective” Section 232 Ruling, Sep 2017

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet: Which Direction Will The Steel Bird Fly? NAFTA Family Squabbles Rhetoric Versus Reality, AIST Mexico, Monterrey, Jun 2017

USA Steel: King Of The Mardi Gras Parade? Or Skipping Fat Tuesday For Ash Wednesday?, ISRI, New Orleans, Apr 2017

Surviving The Garrote Of Low Priced Imports Squeezing USA Wire Producers: New Administration Brings New Hope, AWPA, Napa, Feb 2017

Hearts And Roses Bloom For USA Steel: Will The Romance Endure? Or Fade Over Time?, ISRI Webinar, Feb 2017

Achieving A Gold Medal Performance Requires Design, Discipline & Determination, Alacero57, Rio de Janeiro, Oct 2016

New Steels: New Strategies; New Successes: US Steelmakers Must Again Evolve & Adapt To New Realities, MetCoke, Pittsburgh, Oct 2016

Developed World Empty Nest Syndrome; The “Chicks” (Developing World) Have Flown The Coop & Now Are Flooding The Market With Steel, SteelOrbis/IREPAS, Vienna, Sep 2016

C’est La Vie; C’est La Guerre; C’est La Pomme De Terre. It’s About More Than The French Fries, MPE Media, Paris, Jun 2016

The Incredible Shrinking Planet: Use Protection To Avoid S.T.D.s (Steel Trade Deluges), Steel Manufacturing Association, DC, Apr 2016

Mexican Migration: Butterflies, Former Bosses, Steel & Manufacturing, ANFACAL’s 31st Annual Conference, Punta Mita, Mexico, Feb 2016

Fueling the Furnace: What’s Next for the USA Integrated Steelmakers, SunCoke Energy Investor Day, NYSE, Dec 2015

Steelnado Ending – Will Reduced Imports Save the Day for 2016? AIST SE Chapter, Charleston, Nov 2015

Global Economic Contraction: Navigating the Crushing Waves of Change, BIR World Recycling Convention, Prague, Oct 2015

Running Against the Wind: Economy and the Steel Industry Push Forward in the Face of Strong Headwinds, Chicago, Jun 2015

Surviving the Scorpion Stings, Toxic Venom Brings Painful Red Ink to USA Steelmakers ASD Spring Conference, Palm Springs, CA, Apr 2015

Golden Dreams or Sleepless Nights, Current Trends in the USA Steel Market and Economy, AIST SE Chapter, Columbia, Sep 2014

How to Train Your Dragon-Chinas Management of the Transition to a Consumer Economy, SMU, Atlanta, Sep 2014

Boot Scootin Boogie, A Look at Current Trends in the USA Steel Market and Economy, AWMI TN Chapter, Nashville, May 2014

Macroeconomic Analysis of Merger Markets in Terms of the Steel Industry, Metal Expert Istanbul Semis Conference, Sep 2013

Information Revolution Extending the Industrial Revolution, AIST SE Chapter Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA, Oct 2012




































