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

While proposals to curb shipping industry emissions are overdue, it would help to address the shippers too.

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?

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 […]

Links 4/24/2023

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.

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.

The New Mortgage Fee Structure

Clearing up misinformation about the new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage fees, coming into effect May 1.

Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid

Lambert chats with two AIs about Covid’s airborne transmission.

Links 4/23/2023

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.

Links 4/22/2023

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.

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.

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/21/2023

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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