Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'US sub-prime crisis'

US Chemicals Still Behind 2007

 By John Richardson US chemicals production remains way below its pre-crisis 2007 level but production in Asia-Pacific, after a brief blip in 2009, continues to soar, according to these charts from the American Chemistry Council. Whereas US producers have...

Resolving China's Bad Debts

By John Richardson IS China facing a bad debt crisis as serious, or perhaps even worse, than sub-prime in the US and sovereign debt in Europe? Despite all the bland reassurances the blog keeps hearing from chemical industry executives about the...

China's Debt Problems

   By John Richardson  Fellow blogger Paul Hodges made  a convincing case in a post on Tuesday that China's economic model faces some major challengs.  "It seems increasingly clear that China's economic policy took a wrong turn 10 years ago, when it...