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Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
The Global Ghost Fleet
Fantastic read about where the shipping industry stands, and where it’s parking its excess capacity. Rough time to be a shipping broker/insurer. Industry tanking while excess capacity continues growing at the rate of when your business was at its peak. … Continue reading
Zephyr Teachout on Virtual College
In the Washington Post. Can’t give it full treatment now. Makes some points but requires some pushback. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Crashing Electricity Grids
Use of OSINT: Wang and colleagues at Dalian University of Technology in the Chinese province of Liaoning modelled the US’s west-coast grid using publicly available data on how it, and its subnetworks, are connected (Safety Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.02.002). Their aim … Continue reading
“…Attacking Hospitals Is Bad…”
Chris is (rightly) not OK with building legitimacy by destroying core infrastructure and destabilizing core governance services. Interfering with a health facilities 1) delegitimizes coalition forces and the Afghan government; damages the health (and therefore economy) of the local population; … Continue reading
Krugman Diagnostics
States the obvious. As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.