Some hot takes on the epic Trump-Zelensky slugfest.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
Demand by America’s most affluent is driving consumer spending. That spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high
Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
KLG’s first weekly Coffee Break medical science sightings. Feedback and recommendations for sources welcome!
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Goddamned Democrats; Big Z at the White House (transcript); Economy already worrisome; Epigenetics: Violence alters human genes for generations ~
Over-Planting of GM Corn Costing Farmers Billions, Study Finds
Yet another example of GM crop induced harm to farmers.
What Could Possibly Be Worse Than Carbon Credit Markets? Water Credit Markets. And They Could Be On Their Way
The goal, says Singapore’s president, is to develop “a reliable (sic) carbon credit system with a stapling on of water and biodiversity credits.”
Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship
How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.
Changing of the Guard: Lambert’s Weekend Finale as New Writers Take Up Posts
Lambert retires after his final posts over this weekend, but we hope you will enjoy the new contributors who aspire to fill his yellow waders
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics;
“COL. Douglas Macgregor : Why Is Trump Arming Ukraine?”
Trump says US citizens working in Ukraine on his minerals deal will be a deterrent, as in serve as a tripwire. Bye bye Russia peace pact?
Capital as Power in the 21st Century: A Conversation
An in-depth discussion by Michael Hudson, Jonathan Nitzan, Blair Fix and Tim Di Muzio of the capital as power framework and its explanatory value.
With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In
Why dietary supplement fans should be worried about RFK, Jr.’s plan to weaken their already lax regulation.
