Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The Top 10 Weather and Climate Events of a Record-Setting Year
In an all-around bizarre and largely unpleasant calendar year, extreme weather and climate-related changes contributed to the woes of 2020.
Economist Dennis Snower Says Economics Nears a New Paradigm
A perhaps too-upbeat take on the possibilty of big changes in the economics profession.
Epidemiological and Economic Consequences of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Another look at Covid containment strategies.
A Festive Message on Behalf of DiEM25 for 2021: “Because Things Are the Way They Are, Things Will Not Remain the Way They Are.” B. Brecht
Is Brecht our guide to 2021?
2021 Will Be Volatile
Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m being extremely lazy in the run-up to New Year’s. See you next week! –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, but it has to be done. Drops across the board, which I assume is entirely a holiday-driven reporting issue. At reader request, I’ve […]
Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/30/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m going to be keeping Water Coolers shorter than usual through the New Year. In order to make the year turn toward the light more rapidly, I will make the proportion of frivolous material greater than usual. –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, […]
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.
