Tag Archives: global

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Thank you Hyatt

“Hyatt is the latest international hotel brand to ditch travel-sized toiletries from its rooms, following Holiday Inn-owner InterContinental Group and Marriott International.

Portable tubes of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel will be replaced with bulk-sized toiletries across Hyatt’s global chain of 220,000 rooms beginning in June 2021. The changes will affect Hyatt’s 900 hotels worldwide, encompassing 20 brands, including Park Hyatt, Hyatt Place and the Andaz.

“Plastic pollution is a global issue, and we hope our efforts will motivate guests, customers and, indeed, ourselves to think more critically about our use of plastic,” Mark Hoplamazian, president and CEO of Hyatt, said in a press release.”

It takes everybody working together to reduce plastics….why all the packaging? Ever since Tylenol scare back in the 1980s, companies have gone packaging crazy…time to ease up on Plastics. Buying local is a starting point…

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Multiplier effect

Understanding of Macro economics is basic for global perspective. Excerpt from NY times:

Maybe nothing, but it makes me think that higher housing prices make consumers want to buy more houses (and that is wrong … unless consumers only want to buy houses when housing prices are on the rise, signaling this is a good investment). The article, however, says that this is a macroeconomic effect. Higher housing prices are raising consumer confidence which is increasing overall consumer spending.