Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Harris, Buttegeig, Sunrise Movement, industrial production, manufacturing, consumer sentiment, import and export prices, auto, Wall Street and infrastructure, nuclear power, medical bankruptcy, predictive policing, Amazon Ring, Opportunity Mars Rover
Friday, February 15, 2019
How Energy Efficiency Delivers Green Dividends in Red and Blue States
Promoting and rewarding energy efficiency is popular even in conservative states, and is an important way to get the green ball rolling and have some near-term impact.
Amazon Drops New York City Headquarters Plan in a Snit
Does the testy abandonment of its New York City “HQ2” scheme mean we’ve hit Peak Amazon?
Who Is Really A Socialist?
Identifying some core “socialist” views.
Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Booker, Iowa, anti-semitism flap, DNC shenanigains, retail sales, business inventories, employment, Amazon drops NYC HQ plans, Lexipol, Newspaper Guild, insulin, Medicare Advantage, influencers, urban planning, fun with cranes
And Now This Message From Some Very Rich People: ‘Please Raise Our Taxes’
Some wealthy people point out they wouldn’t even notice, much the less mind, the sort of increases in taxes now under discussion.
Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?
Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?
If Medicare for All Is Politically Impossible, “All Payer” Could Fix the System
How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
China’s Mountain Of Debt Is About To Crumble
A worrying update about China’s corporate debt.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/13/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Holder, Harris, Bloomberg, Omar’s “Kinsley Gaffe,” AOC, consumer price index, business inflation expectations, Saudi tanker, podcast advertising, Walmart, Amazon, Mars One, car payments, batteries, privatized water, worker co-ops, snakes in the grass
Climate Damages: Uncertain but Ominous, or $51 per Ton of Carbon?
The dark and contested art of pricing carbon emissions.
