While proposals to curb shipping industry emissions are overdue, it would help to address the shippers too.
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Global Shipping Is Under Pressure to Stop Its Heavy Fuel Oil Use Fast – That’s Not Simple, but Changes Are Coming
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:51 am | 19 Comments »
Philip Zelikow and the Covid Crisis Group’s “Lessons from a Covid War”: A Pre-Review
It may be that a book is as close as we will come to a Truth and Reconcilation Commission on the Covid pandemic. Will that be enough?
Topics: Media watch, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:48 pm | 31 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2023
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, Philip Zelikow and the Covid Crisis Group have undertaken a PR blitz for their forthcoming book, Lessons From the Covid War, for which I must devise a hasty prophylaxis, since the book is coming out tomorrow. Hence this Water Cooler is an open thread. –lambert P.S. I could […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 80 Comments »
Links 4/24/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 164 Comments »
War, What Is It Good For?
At least when it comes to “great” powers and war these days, one lesson seems clear enough: there simply is nothing great about them, except their power to destroy not just the enemy, but themselves as well.
Topics: Garrulous insolence, Globalization, Japan, Middle East, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 62 Comments »
Berenson: Moderna Falsely Said No Serious Adverse Vaccine Effects in Phase 2 Trial; Their Own Data Says Otherwise
Finally a smoking gun on Covid vaccine injuries? Alex Berenson may have found one in Moderna’s own data.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:48 am | 122 Comments »
The New Mortgage Fee Structure
Clearing up misinformation about the new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage fees, coming into effect May 1.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Politics, Real estate, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:05 am | 5 Comments »
Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid
Lambert chats with two AIs about Covid’s airborne transmission.
Topics: Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 43 Comments »
Links 4/23/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 288 Comments »
Amex Customers – Above-Average-Income Consumers – Are Spending like Drunken Sailors, incl. on Travel & Restaurants
They’re the Big Spenders, they can move the needle. Millennials and Gen Z-ers are now the drivers of this growth.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit cards, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 20 Comments »
Links 4/22/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 147 Comments »
Do Dem Party Leaders Want to Increase Support from Independents?
The US is split between party loyalists and independents who don’t trust either tribe to watch their back.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 65 Comments »
Debt and the Collapse of Antiquity – Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson explains how Rome rejected debt forgiveness and nstituted a pro-creditor legal system, which our establishment defends today.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit cards, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:32 am | 23 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/21/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 107 Comments »
Why the Food System Is the Next Frontier in Climate Action
Virtually all paths to a net-zero-emissions food system rely on consumers in high-income countries shifting to a more plant-forward diet
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 69 Comments »