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A fistful of dollars

The US Federal Reserve used just to manage monetary policy for the 12 'districts' of the USA. But now, it is going global. First, it opened unlimited "swap lines" with other G7 countries through the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, as well as the Swiss...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
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
Crikey, did I eat that much?

The old saying "there's no such thing as a free lunch" has at last been proved true with the virtual collapse of the global financial system - and with it, quite possibly, the world's economy. But for the last decade or more, the chemicals industry, like every other industry, gorged...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-25-2008
Do you ever get that sinking feeling?

I am afraid I do when it comes to climate change and, as a result, don't always switch off lights when I leave rooms, don't always say no to unnecesssary plastic bags when I buy anything and will happily (and this could be the worst damage of all) jet anywhere in the world either for business...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2008
Singapore, kangaroos and other evolutionary oddities

The Chinese leadership look to Singapore as a model for what China could be. Certainly one element of the little island country's attractiveness is its strong economy, but what the Chinese almost certainly find as appealing is the combination of economic success with tight social control. And I'm...

Posted to The High Hill (Weblog) by Gaolin on 06-03-2008
Shell plans for the long-term

See below for an extended interview with Shell Chemicals vice president, Ben van Beurden, who talks of the search for new feedstock sources. He raises the possiblity of using syngas from the Pearl GTL project in Qatar to make methanol and then olefins. Or perhaps the high paraffinic naphtha and ethane...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
Coping with jetlag, chemical-style

Chemicals folk travel the world in pursuit of global deals, but it seems that some of them are better at it than others. Some of them swear by Melatonin , which helps them to sleep on the plane and to stay awake by day at their destination. Unfortunately, it's not licensed for sale in pharmacies...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2008
Singapore celebrations at APIC

Our Singapore party-goers, Mahua and John, report back from this week's APIC conference that the most popular parties were undoubtedly the Braemar Quincannon 10th Anniversary celebration and the ICIS Spanish-themed tapas and sangria party in the glistening courtyard of the former cloistered convent...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2008
APIC supplement

Here's the cover of the official publication for next week's APIC meeting in Singapore. Plenty of reading in the 84 page publication - http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1P48274c3a2cd06012.cde - do take a look! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o...

Posted to customiser (Gallery) by customiser on 05-22-2008
‘Longer, deeper, wider’

Singapore is one of the global economic success stories of recent decades. Its sovereign wealth fund, GIC, is one of the world’s largest fund management companies, with assets of over $100bn. And GIC has already been active during the early stages of the credit crunch, investing $18bn since December...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-21-2008

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