Today’s Water Cooler: Lighthizer on NAFTA, Biden trial balloons, Pelosi v. Trump v. Schumer, NC-09 election fraud, the Lochnerized First Amendment, consumer prices, business inflation expectations, real estate, Bitcoin, Tesla, corporate planning and climate, @Jack meditates, Fortnite
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China auto tariffs, Bloomberg 2020, Beto’s donors, producer price index, small business optimism, Amazon insider scams, trucking rates, supply chain for fabric, Uber’s robot car software, AI, hoarding scooters, Gilded Age, love and money, MAD Magazine
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Why Trump’s trade war is pushing China to become smarter and stronger, faster” [Hellenic Shipping News]. “The final communiqués at these lovefests must usually be written beforehand for anything to be agreed. Trump is the exception. He likes one-on-ones. He is a professional deal maker in a way that […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Biden, Beto, NC election theft, Democrat number crunchers, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Maersk, productivity, employment situation, manufacturing, services, trade, carbon and industry, Trump, and Diblasio, blogging, Tony Bourdain, hippies and vibes
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Aluminum and steel tariffs, Beto and Obama, the crowded Democrat field, lame duck power grabs, Bush hagiography, Jeffrey Epstein, mortgages, cobalt, Google, social media, coal, hospitals, single payer, charter school strike, gut bacteria in your brain
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trash and trade, Neera Tanden, Beto 2020, ME-02, NC, WI, motor vehicle sales, LNG, rentals, Google, MasterCard universal identity, clean coal, marijuana legisation, Women’s March, STD, carbohydrates and fat
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trump and Xi on trade, Sanders 2020, Beto 2002, authoritarian Democrats, MI, NC, WI post-midterms battles, capital spending, manufacturing, construction, retail, “last mile” logistics, UN on climate change, scripts in the news, occupational licensing, Xmas
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trump and Xi, NAFTA, Sanders Institute, Warren, California Democrats, “people power,” purchasing managers index, commodities drop, blockchain, Tesla, Green New Deal, coal, Grinnell student workers, LNG on the tundra, vaccination
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Booker and tear gas, Sanders voting record, Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, elites and trust, Democrats and demographics, jobless claims, personal income, housing, Facebook, Amazon, bee brains, mitochondrial DNA, internships, the left in Red States, Internet of Sh*t, Louise Bourgeois
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: G20, tariffs and automobile supply chains, Iowa no longer first in 2020, suburban Democrats, Twitter pundits, GDP, trade, manufacturing, corporate profits, new home sales, the Fed, climate policy, “the People,” loud restaurants, the headphone jack mourned
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Espy v. Hyde-Smith, Pelosi, voting, AOC, consumer confidence, housing, FAA and drones, robot trucks, GM, UAW, scooters, EV charging, farm belt moves north, insect extinction, medieval smiths, the Enlightenment, social networks and the seven deadly sins
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Tesla in China, aluminum, Sanders 2020, Beto 2020, Trump 2020, HAVA, legitimacy, national activity index, manufacturing, the environment, “Pistachio Wars”, white privilege, burgers
Read more...Water Cooler: Open thread
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders climate Town Hall, Biden, secretaries of state, Stacey Abrams, fake news, housing, copper, bitcoin and crypto, chip credit cards, AI, Tesla, Uber, California wildfires, Antarctic melting, Sheryl Sandberg, primitive communications methods
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