Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'Warren Buffett'
Most hedge funds not an "alternative" asset class
Warren Buffett is the world's most successful investor, earning $62bn from his investments by 2009. But if he had instead channelled this money through hedge funds, and still been equally successful, he would have ended up with just $5bn. They...
Buffett says US rich should pay higher taxes
Last year, Warren Buffett paid only $7m taxes, just 17.4% of his income. Now he says rich Americans, including himself, should pay more, in order to help reduce US debt. He notes that: • In 1992, the wealthiest 400 Americans...
$25bn M&A surge suggests market top is close
Financial markets are different from other markets. And the way we relate to them is different too. Shops, for example, would never seek to win new customers by advertising 'Prices increased 10% last week'. Instead, they splash red signs across...
Top 10 posts in 2009
Blog readers have a wide range of interests. That is clear from the list below of the Top 10 posts in 2009. It also confirms the complexity of the chemical industry, and its fascination. In alphabetical order, it is...
Kerkorian down $650m: Lahde up 1000%: Buffett buys
One of the oldest rules in investment is that 'When a good management finds itself running a bad business, its the reputation of the business that survives'. Legendary US investor Kirk Kerkorian has just proved he is no exception. Back...
US economy 'flat on the floor' says Buffett
Warren Buffett, the world's leading investor, was quite candid yesterday in his views on the US economy. `In my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful, economically, as they are right now,' Buffett, 78, told PBS....
August highlights
Many readers have been out of the office during August on a well-deserved break. I am therefore highlighting below the main postings over the past month, in the hope this will help them to catch up quickly on key developments...
The nudist beach on Wall Street
When you're the richest man in the world, you can generally say what you think. Thus Warren Buffett reflected reality back in March, when he commented that 'by any commonsense definition, the US is in recession'. Yesterday, he probably ruffled...
Revisions, revisions
Statisticians love re-writing economic history. And a notable example of this has occurred today. US government statisticians reported that the US economy actually declined by 0.2% at the end of last year. Whereas, 6 months ago, they reported it as...
The blog's first birthday
Its now a year since the blog started. Since then, 213 postings have appeared. It is now read in 72 countries and 620 cities (shown above). Most encouragingly, readership continues to steadily increase. Since January, it has risen a...
Buffett says US is in recession
‘If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then its a duck’. This simple logic probably best sums up Warren Buffett’s position on the current state of the US economy. ‘By any commonsense definition’, said Buffett yesterday,...
Buffett sells PetroChina
I mentioned PetroChina in the very first blog entry, when the stock was trading at $155 in New York. It seemed to me to typify the new mood of confidence that I was finding as I travelled in Asia on...
Northern Rock – subprime contagion spreads
When the US subprime crisis began, we were assured by the ‘experts’ that it was only a small problem, involving a minor segment of an otherwise robust market. However, the more one read about the situation, the more untenable this...
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