Category Archives: Water Cooler

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have to leave for my annual eye exam even before stats come out (Durable Goods, Case Shiller, PMI Services Flash, Consumer Confidence, Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index), and the optometrist is going to dilate my eyes, so I won’t be in any shape to write before 2:00PM. But I […]

Today’s Water Cooler: Clinton triumphalism, Christie in the quiet car, housing tanks, global warming and economic activity, grammar, guanxi

Today’s Water Cooler: Chaffee out, Benghazi hearing panned, Freedom Caucus and Ryan, Mr. Market tips to greed, Pol Econ 101, cheese

Today’s Water Cooler: TPP “regulatory cooperation,” Clinton at Benghazi hearings ZOMG!!!, TFA and BLM, Locke and Koch, expats in Japan

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden out, Ryan in, when doves cry at the Fed, water wars in Ireland, TFA and #BlackLivesMatter, light waves, placebos

Today’s Water Cooler: Bizarre statements from Biden, Bush in trouble, Webb out, ZOMG!!!! Benghazi, housing starts, Justin Trudeau a sex bomb

Today’s Water Cooler: Why Trump leads, ready ready, Biden or not, honey for the bears, Homan Square and Rahm, Ermahgerddon, Huxley vs Orwell

Today’s Water Cooler: TPP could nuke your computer, DNC meltdown, labor force, aircraft carriers as sitting ducks, William Gibson, disruption

Today’s Water Cooler: TTIP and democracy, Eric Schmidt’s weird Clinton startup, honey for the bears, class warfare and the brain, emojis

Today’s Water Cooler: Columbus, the platinum coin once more, Democratic debates, proxies for the real economy, and a very large pumpkin

Today’s Water Cooler: TPP IP chapter, Clinton panders, Republican meltdown on the Hill, honey for the bears, PIMCO and the lust for power

Today’s Water Cooler: Clinton on finance, Carson interview, VW debacle, honey for the bears, Great British Bake Off, markets and deception

Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders (and Warren?) on TPP, Glencore, VW, Bezos at Business Insider, ocean carbon sequestration, Linda Barry syllabus