2:00PM Water Cooler 4/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China tariffs, Sanders in Jackson, Warren, Wisconsin, employment situation, teachers strikes, health care costs, Mississippi flooding, Isao Takahata
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The Hidden Network That Propelled Civil Rights in America
Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on black entrepreneurs to make their work possible.
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Michael Hudson: Origins of Money and Interest: Palatial Credit, Not Barter
A deep dive into the origins of credit and money, along with the political implications of different theories.
Read more...5 Ways Liberals and Progressives Shame the Poor Without Even Realizing It
The poor (and even the struggling middle class) are too often on the receiving end of sanctimonious and not cheap lifestyle finger-wagging.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/5/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs, Sanders in Jackson, midterms (WI, FL, MN), Emily’s List, Documenters, coincident indicators, truck drivers, Facebook, women’s clothing, crapified construction
Read more...The Forgotten Economic Vision of Martin Luther King
In the last years of his life, King was boldly forging a radical, multi-racial movement for economic justice.
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Remote-Controlled Self-Driving Cars: Unworkable Technology for Unproven Technology
Debunking a scheme to reduce the risk of self-driving cars: remote control operators.
Read more...50 Years of Gender and Intellectual Ability Stereotypes in Films
Films are doing women no favors, unless you think relegating them to traditional roles is a good thing.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/4/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I accidentally published the following cryptic list at the end of Water Cooler, twice: pyramid river foreigners One reader thought it was a cry for help; another proposed that it was a haiku. In fact, it was a do-list for me, some bite-size essays that weren’t post-worthy, but that […]
Read more...Elon Musk’s Two Great Virtues
Elon Musk can conjure up wonderful images of the future. In the here and now, can he even produce cars (batteries? solar panels? anything?) on schedule? What is going to happen to Tesla?
Read more...Conclusive Evidence of the Russian State’s Guilt in the Skripal Case Is Lacking — and That’s Important
A big crack opens up in the official story about the Skripal poisoning.
Read more...The Hudson Report: The Economic Impact of Bipartisan Bank Deregulation
Michael Hudson debunks the talking points used to sell the just-passed bank deregulation bill.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Chappaquiddick, motor vehicle sales, manfacturing, debt, Amtrak, Tesla autopilot and production numbers, John Williams at the Fed, dialectical memes
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