Category Archives: Water Cooler

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I’m traveling today, and so wrote this yesterday and scheduled it for the future, now the present. I’m a little primaried out, so I’m just going to throw out a few topics for discussion: 1) If you garden, what did you order from your seed catalogs, and what are […]

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade shortly to become campaign issue, Democratic debate, Michigan, bulls and bears, 2°C by 2030?, Chelsea and Ivanka

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. TPP/TTiP/TISA “[T]he National Farmers Union (NFU), which represents over 200,000 family farms and ranches, believes the USDA’s promises are the same kind made with previous trade pacts that did not come to fruition” [Crop Protection News]. “‘In its current form, the TPP stands to hurt our rural economies by pitting […]

Today’s Water Cooler: Clinton defends bailouts, WaPo bias, Republican fantasies, our mysterious working class, labor force participation (or not)

Today’s Water Cooler: Frank Bruni clutches his pearls, Democrat apathy, Trump’s fingers, employment stats, nuclear accidents, What, Me Worry?

Today’s Water Cooler: Trump Panic continues, Trump and Sanders campaign mechanics, moar greed, drought and Syria, microdosing, Albert Speer

Today’s Water Cooler: Trump panic, South Carolina post mortem, ADP employment, next recession, fossils, scholarly publishing, robot leaders

Today’s Water Cooler: Super Tuesday, the appeal of Sanders and Trump, socialist youth, stats, corruption, Harvard hates unions, WikiPedia

Today’s Water Cooler: Ryan and TPP, #BlackLivesMatter confronts Clinton at fundraiser, Sanders’ charm, Afghanistan, global warming ‘hiatus’