Today’s Water Cooler: Wilbur Ross on China, China solar panels, Warren’s wealth tax, Sanders on Venezuela, Air Traffic controller sickout?, Democrat culture, charters, Tesla, Theranos, flash crash, housing, newspapers, TVA, tectonics, Erik Olin Wright, footnotes, hagfish slime
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and auto, Harris 2020, Venezuela, 2018 dark money, Pelosi and Biden on Republicans, DSA, leading indicators, manufacturing, jobless claims, apparel, Amazon, CP, Anheuser-Busch, Deliveroo, soil, groundwater, Zuckerberg, Alzheimers, rotary mixers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, marginal top rates, Trump and church-goers, manufacturing, architectural billings, flying cars, eyeglasses, global warming and aerosols, Greenland ice, Bryan Singer and R. Kelley, LA teachers strike, venture capital, particle physics
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Warren, Harris, Sanders, “brunch,” cognitive illiberalism, existing home sales, Grab, Apple, concentration and Silicon Valley, Canadian Medicare v. ObamaCare, the Sacklers and their museums, LA teachers strike, government shutdown, socialist feminism, Buke & Gasse
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Gabbard, Clinton, Trump 2020 preparations, hamburgers once more, industrial production, consumer sentiment, capital investment, DNA kits, Facebook, Summit Learning, fresh blood, Jeremy Grantham on climate, Jack Dorsey, revolutions podcast
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Shutdown trade negotiations, Sanders, Gillibrand, Wasserman Schultz, RussiaRussiaRussia, Prohibition Era idpol, manufacturing, jobless claims, Lego as an asset class, Instagram, Facebook, Glossier, Digital First Media, hoarding disorder, drones, hidden cameras
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Gillibrand, AOC on Finance Commitee, Brennan Russia walkback?, organizing Philly, housing, mortages, lithium scandal, Blue Apron, WeWork and Softbank, Elsevier, law enforcement for profit, LA teachers strike, “toxic masculinity”
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA won’t fund the wall, China trade negotiations, Wendy’s at the White House, Russian meddling, Bernie Bros, Obama’s presidency, manufacturing, purchasing prices, robot cars, online gambling, Apple, Bird, Blue Apron, Uber, Antarctic ice, Frederick Douglass
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler; Fortnite, Southeast Asian trade, Sanders 2020, Democrats and the heartland, soybeans, Tidal’s faked streams, Bird, AWS and MongoDB, RSS, fiber, market moves, Los Angeles teachers strike, gig economy, Marie Kondo, countering misinformation
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Beto, Harris, Gillibrand, Biden, Sanders, AOC vs “call time,” Pelosi’s theory of the party, Ed Buck saga, liberal warmongers, cost of living, deep-sea mud and rare earths, “Lazy Prices,” Wall Street algos, labor exploitation, EVE online
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Beto, Biden, Sanders and oppo, CBC and diversity, HR1, jobless claims, Amazon, software patents, beauty and evolution, redwoods, Headstart, life expectancy, precarity, Bruce Weber (again), Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trump Wall speech and aftermath, Sanders 2020, electronic voting debacles, Mothership Strategies, Ed Buck, employment situation, recession likelihood, crypto, marijuana legalization, smoking, sexism, Adolph Reed on political history, cellphones
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Wall Street Democrats, ACO long read, DSA after two years, identarianism, data in the shutdown, labor market, small business optimism, retail sales, what’s next after robot cars, Apple iPhone, iPad, iOS, Newsome and single payer, co-ops and monopoly, good people
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m finishing up a post on AOC’s Green New Deal (GND) proposal, considered as policy, so this Water Cooler will be a little bit light. If I’m not utterly consumed by the GND effort, I’ll circle back and add more material here. –lambert UPDATE Nope. I have RL […]
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