Today’s Water Cooler: Amazonia and soy, O’Rourke, Sanders, Yang, newspapers and polarization, reparations, GDP, manufacturing, employment, Barclay’s, Boeing 737, Amazon, Facebook, robocals, Android, Apple, Fukushima, Medicaid, reading for the OED, language in the brain, Gritty assaulted
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and 737, Sanders, AOC, moar RussiaGate, Ed Buck, international trade, bonds, Market Basket, bonds, natural gas, air pollution casualties, volcanic threats, health insurance horror stories, “Baby Ivies,” money, moralizing Gods, male birth control pill, early risers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, moar RussiaGate, housing, consumer confidence, manufacturing, WeWork, Boeing, Google game streaming, net neutrality, American corruption, debt and depression, Japanese seasons
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: More or less open thread on the Mueller investigation.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: National activity, manufacturing, 737 softwar fix, the Fed and inflation, recession signals, carbon markets, Missouri flooding, grazing lands and carbon capture, cliimate and disease, Mount Everest, kale, the Sacklers, Amazon strike, Uber/Lyft strike, Internet of Sh*t
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden/Abrams trial balloon, Gravel, Sanders, Yang, Meuller report to drop?, DCCC cripples challengers, wholesale trade, new home sales, manufacturing, Boeing, oil traders, JP Morgan and oil funding, premature spring, apple trees, trust fund squirrels, excellence in food
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Boeing and China, Biden and Abrams, Gravel (!), Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, “replacement theory,” leading indicators, employment, manufacturing, services, Facebook, Google PageRank, plate tectonics, anti-vax, MMT
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden, Gravel (!), Klobuchar, O’Rourke, Sanders, Chelsea Clinton, mortgages, Boeing 737 MAX, AirBnB, Google, realtors, AI, electric buses, climate change and heart disease, Canada v. U.S. health care, Ramsey Orta, anti-vax, how spies use disguises
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and heavy machinery, Houston chemical fire, plate tectonics and ice ages, superbugs in space, Iowa manure, Midwest flooding, PG&E and fire, college deans on corruption, advertising in space
Read more...Todays Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, All Beto, All The Time, Sanders, Boeing 737 MAX debacle, manufacturing, employment, consumer confidence, OxyContin, robot cars, Tesla, Facebook, Bird, children’s climate strike, Caifornia drought-free, GND, WikiPedia, classical music, lucid dreams
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, O’Rourke enters the race, Sanders, Warren, Yang, DSA, jobless claims, new home sales, import and export prices, Facebook, Gmail, Boeing 737 debacle, painted ladies, California fires, hemp co-operatives, first college bribery scam lawsuit, Pi Day
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler, including Biden and the working class, Gabbard, Harris, Sanders, Yang, AOC, voting machines, reparations, durable goods, producer prices, inflation expecations, construction, ongoing 737 debacle, Wells Fargo, Amazon, SEIU, cash, Varsity Blues, chat, quantum time reversal
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, this is a little top-heavy on politics, but I really had to do a pantry clearout! –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, resistance grifters, retail sales, business inventories, leading indicators, Facebook, Boeing, investors and deforestation, wetland carbon storage, sea level rise, animal traction, grievances, emojis, browser tabs
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