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  • 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 further 301%. The blog's aim is to identify 'the influences...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • ‘Sometimes those questions lead to war’

    The weekend’s finance minister meeting in Washington DC seems to have been quite different from its predecessors. Not only did they apparently have an ‘informal brainstorming session’ at one point, but they also found themselves confronted with two major and on-going crises: • We have to ‘put food into...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-15-2008

  • Wheat prices add to CFO concerns

    Wheat prices rose 25% yesterday , the biggest one-day rise ever, as Kazakhstan imposed restrictions on wheat exports. The rationale for today’s rising prices is three-fold: • US farmers have shifted land over to corn, to meet increased ethanol demand, and US wheat inventories are forecast to hit 60 year...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-26-2008

  • The law of unintended consequences

    There’s an interesting article on Bloomberg, suggesting that the US Fed’s dramatic interest rates reductions are ‘ driving Asia’s governments back to controlled economies’ . Its argument is that by cutting rates, Bernanke is ‘limiting his Asian counterparts’ ability to curb inflation'. It goes on...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-19-2008
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