Today’s Water Cooler: Increased pre-tariff imports, Beto, Pelosi, post-midterms House, small business optimism, bank regulation, small warehouses, Teamster contract, robot cars, Apple, wildfires, meat substitutes, Amazon HQ, DSA, 3D printing and toxic fumes, Stan Lee
Read more...What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...Another sign of climate change induced stress, this one from Australia.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last week, there were three (major) California wildfires in the news: The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California, and the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California, which are still burning, not entirely contained. Here is a map: And here is a shot of the […]
Read more...Lambert here: Makes our own Civil War look like a blip. However, at least some of the conclusions seem to be borne out for our Civil War, too: Increase in state capacity, for example. By Lixin Colin Xu, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, and Li Yang, Postdoc, Paris School of Economics. Originally published […]
Read more...Clearing up fundamental misconceptions about US Treasury bond issuance.
Read more...A round-up of mid-term results pertaining to climate change.
Read more...Another benefit of higher minimum wages.
Read more...The continuing rise in wealth of the super rich bodes ill for financial and social stability.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Harris, mid-terms post mortem, ME-02 and ranked choice voting, Atlantic Council on Russia, producer prices, wholesale trade, consumer sentiment, water wars, investors tracking carbon, billionaires, Iowa undergrad union, Apple
Read more...If private cryptocurrencies were to find widespread economic use, either coexisting with or fully displacing fiat money, the result would be increased financial instability, inequality, and social instability.
Read more...Silicon Valley stars like Apple suffer from financialization—the same ailment that felled GE and Lucent.
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