Category Archives: Water Cooler

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. TTP/TTIP/TiSA “Economists Sharply Split Over Trade Deal Effects” [New York Times]. A summary of the various studies that you, readers, have seen emerge here over the last few weeks. Good to see the Times covering it, however. “It would be foolish for the Australian Parliament to rush to approve implementing […]

Today’s Water Cooler: TPP in Buffalo, MOAR IOWA, corporate bonds, Groundhog Day, massive 1MDB corruption scandal

Today’s Water Cooler: TPP studies, Iowa AT LAST, Trump and Lady Di, Microsoft and the Democrats, manufacturing, last of Malheur, Karl Popper

Today’s Water Cooler: Single payer cost, Confessore hit piece on Sanders, Trump, class, and jouissance, glum stats, new Flint commission

Today’s Water Cooler: Clinton tries to bribe Obama, housing stats, nervous elites, Flint water, and more to come.

Today’s Water Cooler: Best joke about the Democratic Party ever, Obama shores up Clinton, more manufacturing fail, VR sex, undersea cables

Today’s Water Cooler: Poll: Sanders up by eight in Iowa (!), National Review attacks Trump, leading indicators, class warfare, averages

Today’s Water Cooler: Study: Who benefits from ISDS?, Palin’s chiasmus, Bill Clinton’s angst, return of the headband, jobless claims, water

Today’s Water Cooler: Democratic debates, Clinton’s Wall Street cash, FOMC minutes, 62 people own as much wealth as half world’s population