Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA. Bombardier, Puerto Rico relief, infrastructure, tax reform, GDP, wealth distribution, Hugh Hefner
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory: Disrupting the IPO
Silicon Valley has an alternative to the IPO…with a 20% haircut compared to Wall Street’s 7%. Should you hang on to your wallet?
Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
How Puerto Rico has gone from an economic disaster area to a humanitarian crisis in the making.
Prosecution Futures? Multibillion Dollar Orders in Coinbase Trading Platform
Some mighty strange, and mighty big, orders in a Coinbase trading platform order book…..
Wall Street and City of London Getting Nervous About Catalonia
Yves here. Neither side appears willing to back down in the battle of wills over the Catalonia independence vote set for this Sunday, October 1. The English language press has described how the Spanish government has declared the election to be illegal and Mariano Rajoy’s government has moved to try to shut it down, for […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Health Care Debate: Sanders vs. Graham, Cassidy, and Klobuchar
As a debate, it wasn’t even close.
Jared Bernstein Shows the Costs of Not Understanding Sovereign Currencies
Jared Bernstein, like his fellow fauxgressives, endorses deficit hysteria instead of policies based on how our money system works.
The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?
Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?
Amazon’s Inhuman Customer Service Issues Death Sentence to Local Library Fundraising
Amazon is mean.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/26/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Cassidy-Graham, campaign contact and ads ineffective?, Fetonte and DSA, manufacturing, housing, parcels, Philly
Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?
Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
