Financial Times, LyondellBasell, Federal Reserve, state ownership, Barack Obama, Us stimulus package
Asian Chemical Connections
As this is the season of goodwill…..
debt forgiveness, rescheduling mortgages, Nail Ferguson, Financial Times, global property slump
Will the US dinosaurs ever learn?
yet-more US dinosaurs, dinosoars, carbon capture and storage, Alberta tar sands, shale sands, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, second-generation biofuels
Inspired leaders needed – apply here
Great leaders, financial meltdown, global recession, managing inventories, free alcohol
Buy small and local to survive
logistics, credit crisis, financial meltdown, inventory management, plastic packaging
Heading for extinction
Unbelievable, incredible – what prehistoric planet do these people live on? Please see below for a rant from a-soon-to-be-extinct species of business leader – the US chemicals executive against Barack Obama. I have my doubts about Obama, but at least he has a brain bigger than a shrivelled pea (unlike certain other holders of the […]
All those wasted lives – but at least you got your bonus
Mr Obscenely Rich Got Out In Tiime Banker, please look into these eyes, see the pain from the last Great Depression and maybe you will give some of your obscenely huge bonus towards poverty relief. And perhaps also you’ll be willing to pay for all the counselling that the children of this new Great Depression […]
Uncle Karl is back in fashion
Karl Marx, The Miner’s Strike, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, capitalism, financial meltdown
The big challenges
As delegates gather for this year’s European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unreal for the 99.9 per cent recurring of us who don’t own Ferraris), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We’ve dealt with: *Oil-price volatility and the […]
Crikey, did I eat that much?
Pimco, Mohamed El-Erian, financial meltdown, financial rescue package, American Chemistry Council
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