2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Export bump, midterms, the gender gap, AOC, Stacey Abrams, Puerto Rico, DSA and youth, GDP and spin, consumer sentiment, batteries, Uber, AI, Mars, libaries
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2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: EU tariffs, NAFTA, paper ballots, partisanship and luxury goods, durable goods, manufacturing, trade, Facebook debacle, AI, Mars opposition, labor economics ad technology, CRISPR in the bathroom
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Farmers prefer Trump do trade deals than hand them cash” [Associated Press]. ” Many farmers remain critical of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the damage done to commodity prices and markets but were appreciative Tuesday that he offered to provide some cash to help offset their losses… “This is […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Ocasio-Cortez, Russia narrative, manufacturing, commodities, shipping, Google, local journalism, Facebook, living in your car, Apple’s thin laptop debacle
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Today’s Water Cooler: Realignment and legitimacy, forest fires, killer lawns, Raytheon, the Iowa Farm Board, ticks, and more later.
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Republican governors, lunatic politics, treason, William Gibson, scooters, Fed DSGE model, Uber, DARPA robots, Oscar Wilde
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Temporarily open thread.
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Today’s Water Cooler: Textiles and trade, Clinton, Cuomo corruption, Helsinki commentary, electronic voting, mortage applications, housing starts, home delivery, labor market, Eric Garner, federated social networks
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Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread
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Today’s Water Cooler: Trade wars (and game theory), Sanders in Pittsburgh, AOC profile, Ritter on the Mueller indictments, Bourdain on Bill Clinton, retail sales, manufacturing, bitcoin, the press, testosterone
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war, Novartis, Mueller indicts 12 Russians, import and export, consumer prices, Fed indicators, AirBnB, cybersecurity, origin of homo sapiens, neutrinos, urbanization
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade wars, voter registration and redistricing, AOC and Crowley, AOC and MMT, Democrats in disarray, comsumer prices, fracking sand, Goldman and 1MDB, epigenetics, migration and museums, Cambodian dancers, the cat
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war?, Kavanaugh pick, AOC, midterms, wholesale trade, producer prices, warehouse real estate, container production, reshoring, printable guns, hunter-gathers, citizen science
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Today’s Water Cooler: No longer an open thread. Supply chain, Iranian aircraft, Democrat hilarity, Thomas Frank, consumer credit, small business optimism, consumer expectations, debt, Paul Krugman, Jobs Guarantee, municipal socialism, Janus, rationality, ethics of AI
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Soy, Clinton 2020?, Pelosi messaging, crapification watch, cheese, lithium, cobalt, tinfoil, Bitcoin, robot cars and civil liability, Hollywood, New Yorker cartoons
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