What if ...

A Belgian financial paper reports that the Belgian financier Albert Frère again has strenghtened his share in Lafarge, the French cement and building materials group. Frère has been buying shares of Lafarge for a couple of years now and is by far the main shareholder of the French group, one of the major players in the world cement market.

Whenever I read about the Frère - Lafarge "romance" I regret the fact that Frère apparently was not interested in cement some 15 years ago ...

But bygones are bygones. I'm just thinking about what might have been if ... a vain exercise if ever there was one, and no longer my business as I have been a happy retiree for seven years now.

But sometimes one wonders ...