Monday, August 25, 2025
Is Zelensky’s International Charm Offensive, Backed Up With US Bullying, Finally Paying Dividends in Latin America?
Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies “hosted” a video conference with Zelensky last week, becoming only the second Latin American government to do so. But the event turned out to be a lot less than met the eye.
Why Regulators Can’t Curb Social Media Hype for Weight Loss Drugs
Weight loss is a fixation as people on average get fatter. Some diabetes drugs presecribed off-label promise help…if you keep taking them.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
