Today’s Water Cooler: Trade wars, voter registration and redistricing, AOC and Crowley, AOC and MMT, Democrats in disarray, comsumer prices, fracking sand, Goldman and 1MDB, epigenetics, migration and museums, Cambodian dancers, the cat
Read more...Employer recruiting of migrants from other countries creates a transnational network of labor
intermediaries: the “human supply chain.”
Job reallocation is an important determinant of productivity. This column uses US data to show that a decline in the degree of job reallocation in response to shocks is behind the overall fall in the rate of reallocation over the past decades.
Read more...Under AMLO, Mexico’s drug policies are likely to see some radical changes.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war?, Kavanaugh pick, AOC, midterms, wholesale trade, producer prices, warehouse real estate, container production, reshoring, printable guns, hunter-gathers, citizen science
Read more...One-third of the fish caught are wasted before they ever reach a dinner plate, according to the UN Food And Agriculture Organization’s latest biannual report on the state of the world’s fisheries.
Read more...Reconfirming the findings of a study that debunked some key claims about the supposed benefit of stock buybacks.
Read more...A discussion of whether rising political pressure can produce needed economic and democratic reforms.
Read more...The nannies who are employed by the professional class on up….
Read more...On the role that Naviance plays in the college application process at elite high schools.
Read more...Will the Democrats have the guts to use Senate procedure their advantage?
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Soy, Clinton 2020?, Pelosi messaging, crapification watch, cheese, lithium, cobalt, tinfoil, Bitcoin, robot cars and civil liability, Hollywood, New Yorker cartoons
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