Oil traders, including the trading desks of the big oil companies, continue to trade in Russian hydrocarbons and are making extraordinary profits.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
The Covid-19 Guidance on CDC’s Website is a Crime Against Humanity
A massacre of the innocents.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2022
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The Aerodynamics of Velvet: What Humans Can Learn from Owls
Scientific research has coaxed the owl from the shadows and restored her to Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In
Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses.
Addiction Instead of Taxation
Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population.
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think
It turns out that many of today’s billionaires are selfish, lonely men fantasizing about how they will survive the end times they have played a part in creating.
Financing Ukraine’s Victory: Why and How
$50 billion, backstopped by IMF.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2022
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More Fallout From the Nord Stream Pipeline Attacks
By Conor Gallagher Yves wrote yesterday about what the Russian response might be to the Nord Stream attacks. I wanted to touch on a few other potential consequences I’ve come across, and as there are no doubt more, hope to see them in comments. Economic Catastophre in Europe Now Certain There were questions in Washington […]
