No matter how bad things get, there’s always someone who’s even worse off than you. And because we’re all human, we can’t help but take a little comfort in that. I just read a story that may make you feel a little better about the losses that the stock market has handed you in the last year or so. It concerns the giant Chinese aluminum company called (appropriately enough) Aluminum Corporation of China (ACH), although its friends just call it Chinalco. Lots of Chinese companies, especially the state-owned ones, have been working hard to get control of the resources...
