2:00PM Water Cooler 7/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war with China, Cuomo, open borders, the Weathermen, employment situation, international trade, robot cars, platinum, taxing the rich, the marshmallow test, smart homes
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2:00PM Water Cooler 7/5/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade slowdown?, abortion politics, services, employment situation, truck manufacturers, Boeing/Embraer, GM, guillotine watch, stress, maps, hot dogs
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Oprah 2020, the left and the ballot, Ocasio-Cortez, employment, trade, Tesla, AT&T, Comcast, Thomas Frank, expatriation, Juggalos and facial recognition
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and Mr. Market, Supreme Court and midterms, DNC fundraising, manufacturing, construction, sand, Tesla, email, class, trees, slow photography
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/29/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel, industrial policy, Ocasio-Cortez, report from New York state, personal income, manufacturing, robot influences, all Elon, all the time, AT&T fees, FairBnB, Neanderthals, the Internet of USB
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and China investment, ports, Kennedy resignation, Ocasio-Cortez, GDP, manufacturing, graph theory and evolution, “tankies”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/27/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and auto, Biden 2020, Crowley ridiculousness, sanctuary cities, JANUS decision, durable goods, household income, epigenetics, Sacred Harp singing networks
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread.
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Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China trade, the midterms, Crowley v. Ocasio, immigration policy from Brand New Congress, national activity, manufacturing, flying cars, robot cars, urbanism, Rome, dad joke
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and apparel,Trump in Duluth, MO, ME, WV Senate, immigration policy, I-95 stops, voting shenanigains, manufacturing, vanilla, hedgies, alcoholism, warrants for cellphone location information, sociology of science
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: ZTE, Bloomberg in the midterms, Ojeda (WV), Crowley (NY), immigration, Vicky Nuland reappears, jobless claims, manufacturing, Tesla whistleblower Martin Tripp, online sales tax, Neanderthal mini-brains, addiction
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/20/2018
Patient readers, Again, I ended up writing a few mini-essays and not getting to everything else I wanted to do, so expect a bit more shortly, especially on immigration. –lambert UPDATE 3:02. All finished. By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Trump trade adviser says he has no knowledge of iPhone tariff exception” [The Hill]. “President […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, semiconductors, mid-terms, immigration, Kobach and voting, housing, shipping, trucking “sweet spot,” Uber, Tesla, Juneteenth, Enoch Powell, F-35
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Sanders and taxes, Iowa, Wisconsin, ranked choice voting, housing, shipping, Tesla shorts, Audi CEO arrest, death of New York, consciousness
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/15/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war with China?, mid-terms and women’s turnout, ranked choice voting, the border, industrial production, manufacturing, CMS ratings, risk corridors, the Incas, genderless pronouns
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