2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China and LNG, NAFTA, Warren and co-determination, campaign advertising, Russia probe, Brennan, leading indicators, consumer sentiment, complex information
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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Warren on Yemen, Democrats, Manafort, Brennan, young voters, Shay’s Rebellion, business outlook, housing starts, retail, shipping, containers, CEO pay, relocation, akrasia, Aretha Franklin
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Warren’s corporate governance proposal, midterms, productivity, inventories, retail, Elon Musk, UPS contract, infrastructure, economic anxiety, cash
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariff equilibria, Avenatti in Iowa, Pelosi, midterms, Wesley Bell, Strzok, paper ballots, antifa, small business optimism, single payer, out-of-network billing, collections, rain forests
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Seth Moulton, Trump in NY-21 and NY-22, capital spending, shipping, Google’s dark patterns, capacity constraints, smart cities, ayahuasca
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, tariffs and fish, China trade, Avenatti 2020, midterms, consumer prices, oil, Mr. Market, the press and intelligence, heat, habits, the mind
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Hope Is Not a Plan: The Myth of American Manufacturing” [Industry Week]. “In building a case for an American manufacturing renaissance, economists cite increasing productivity, cheap natural gas, and rising value-added figures to show that manufacturing is in good shape and will get better. Some of these positivists [sic] […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/8/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Deval Patrick, reports from yesterday’s midterms (especially OH-12), “Witch Hunt,” consumer credit, 3D printing, Lada, International Cat Day
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2018
Today’s Water Cooler, including today’s primaries, the Koch brothers, liberalism and cruelty, job openings, shipping, Amazon, Tesla, Appalachia, brain twisters, Maine “Sea Goddess” dethroned.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I’m off to the optometrist’s this afternoon! –lambert Trade https://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2157320/factories-shift-out-china-avoid-trade-war-boosting-volume “China said it’s [hitting $60 billion worth of U.S. exports with new tariffs] ‘because the U.S. side has repeatedly escalated the situation despite the interest of both enterprises and consumers’ and it must ‘[a]defend the country’s dignity and the interests […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Obama endorsements, OH-12, employment situation, Tesle, Apple, wildflowers, the Atlantic conveyor, farmers’ markets, and temporarily open thread.
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Obama and Clinton endorsements, Maslow’s hierarchy, factory orders, Uber, health insurance, libraries, temporarily open thread
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and Obama, more Facebook panic, employment, doctors and “moral injury,” political data projects, temporarily open thread
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: GMO and trade, IA-01, VA-05, the Democrat Party, social democracy/democratic socialism, paper ballots, personal income, manufacturing, bees, Strafford Beer, getting to sleep
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, TTiP, Eric Holder 2020, 2016 post mortem, brutalism, “Trump Anxiety Disorder”, housing, manufacturing, Tesla teardowns, pipelines, Harvard admissions, processed cheese
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