John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, antidumping petitions, trade protection, living in cloud cuckoo land
Asian Chemical Connections
Chem engineers back with avengeance
chemical engineers, financial meltdown, Nigel Davis, inventory management, H2 2009 recovery
The demise of private equity
private equity, Charles R Morris, Paul Krugman, the New York Times, Conscience Of A Liberal
Any spare change, Mister?
Financial Times, LyondellBasell, Federal Reserve, state ownership, Barack Obama, Us stimulus package
I will wait for this Lego truck to hit S$100
LyondellBasell, Volker Trautz, Lego, recycling, deflation, financial meltdown
Buy small and local to survive
logistics, credit crisis, financial meltdown, inventory management, plastic packaging
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 Depression […]
Uncle Karl is back in fashion
Karl Marx, The Miner’s Strike, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, capitalism, financial meltdown
“Real” people start to suffer even more
Bradford and Bingley, UK, auto industry, consumer spending, plastic packaging, financial meltdown
The big challenges
As delegates gather for this year’s European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unreal for the 99.9 per cent recurring of us who don’t own Ferraris), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We’ve dealt with: *Oil-price volatility and the […]
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