Today’s Water Cooler: Trade policy, 2020 Democrat debates, Mattis hagiography and reactions, Pelosi cripples Green New Deal, DSA and racism, GDP, personal income and outlays, durable goods, manufacturing, CLOs, Amazon, Uber, antibiotics, Xmas phishing, biological and artificial intelligence
Read more...Due to Western misperceptions and China’s rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0.
Read more...Drones illustrate why lack of regulation isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
Read more...The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on the fracking beat. The industry lacks even the excuse of profit to justify the environmental costs it inflicts – yet this is a story too little told in the rest of the media, which instead promotes further investments in this sector.
Read more...Confirming Airbnb’s effects on rentals and home prices.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Young presidential contenders, Beto, Sanders, Mueller, PAYGO, Michelle Obama and George Bush, current account, existing home sales, architectural billings, fish fraud, Elon Musk, scooters, National Parks, trees, mutual aid, quantum computing, radical mycology
Read more...UK announces long awaited waste plan, which crucially, embraces the ‘polluter pays’ principle. It’s a step forward, despite at least three major flaws.
Read more...Great. Will the new maxim of war be, “He who controls the training set controls the future”?
Read more...After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible. Can we make out any a silver lining in this retail meltdown, signs of a shift necessary away from fast fashion toward a more sustainable future?
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Presidential debates, Beto unready, Senate Intelligence Community reports, DNC data, fascism once more, housing starts, modesty in fashion, Tesla, Blue Apron, Bitcoin ATMs, corruption, tech dystopias, Mr. Market and the Fed, package seizures, ambient cruelty, Facebook
Read more...Summary of the depressing lack of progress at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, where the participants punted on agreeing to take significant action to confront climate change.
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