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Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?

Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease? That is the question posed by Ron Steenblick, and Richard Doornbosch in a recent online publication.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
Buy small and local to survive

Chemicals demand still exists, believe it or not, but the new economic order -one that could last as long as six years - requires new approaches. Purchasing managers need to start acting locally as well as globally. Who would want to be a financial controller if you work for a big company or the jack...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
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...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2008
Uncle Karl is back in fashion

Yes, indeed, with all the talk of the collapse of capitalism and with liberal economists running for cover , dear old Karl might once again be the flavour of the month. Oh how I remember those dewy-eyed days, standing on the picket lines in the pouring rain during the 1984-1985 Miner's Strike in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008
Even Middle East budgets are being cut

Yes, I know this blog has gone very quiet - but as the world has imploded, a few more pressing issues have come to the fore. On a business trip last week the extent of the crisis became apparent when a Middle East producer told me that travel and entertainment budgets are being ferociously cut for 2009...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-21-2008
Ethanol doubts in the heartland

It is worth checking out a story in the Des Moines Register, posted on 17 October by Dan Piller Ethanol cos. hurt by prices may get help from USDA. Read the comments.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
Restaurants set to raise prices as corn cost feed through to plates

A number of US restaurant chains look set to rise prices this year as higher corn prices ripple along the supply chain, according to Huffington post . The key paragraph is buried towards the end of the article.... Part of the problem stems from protein producers' plans to cut back on production in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
Is your company truly globalised?

Globalisation is an attitude of mind as what might now be a slightly descredited economic doctrine. Many companies are international but few - from talking to friends and contacts - are truly global in the sense that they recruit senior managers from all regions (not just the country in which their head...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-10-2008
Would you pass the Koala Bear test?

I've just returned from a wonderful few days in Perth, Western Australia, where the motorists don't as a rule try to kill you (unlike in most of Asia) and if you are a tourist at least, you can come away with the false impression that the cork-hatted people have got the balance between work and...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
"Real" people start to suffer even more

I grew up in a small town called Bingley in West Yorkshire in the UK, where there are two major employers - the head offices of a building society (or what was once a building bociety, but became a failed bank - see picture above) and a clothing business. My late parents worked most of their working...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-30-2008

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