Today’s Water Cooler: China trade negotiations, Biden, Gravel, Trump, Steele report, impeachment, GA passes fetal personhood, helium, trade and shipping, Boeing, Uber IPO, Amazon, DIsney, food, animal waste, Bezos space stations, cats
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them
Why some liberals are coling on charter schools.
Gabriel, R.I.P.
My good friend Gabriel is gone.
Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank
A new bill by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to limit credit abuses and make banking more accessible.
The Shale Boom Is About To Go Bust
Have more aggressive shale development techniques simply front-loaded production?
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade negotiations, Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders and AOC, Trump fundraising, Warren on opioids (yay), impeachment, trade, jobless claims, prices, Amazon, Boeing, fossil fuel subsidies, rivers, MMT, airpods, cheeseburgers, obesity, Ani DiFranco
Perhaps It’s Time to Start Worrying About Global Corporate Debt, Suggests Bank of England
China’s exploding corporate debt is a cause for pause.
Brexit: Stuck
Nearly a month into the EU’s Brexit extension and no progress.
Farming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World
Is subsistence farming the way to the future?
The U.N. Says 1 Million Species Could Disappear. Pacific islands Have a Solution
A proposal to stem species loss.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler, including Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders campaign, electability, RussiaGate and denial, P4AHCF, consumer credit, jobs, Amazon, Uber, CEO Group, bitcoin, AirPods, Mr. Market, biodegradeable plastic, manure, stratocumulus clouds, #MedicareForAll, streetlights, ancient stash
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
The infamous HAMP program, which the Administration revised so many times on the fly as to give incompetent and mendacious mortgage servicers air cover for failing to modify mortgages, at least had a stealth purpose. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said to the SIGTARP’s Neil Barofsky, it was to foam the runway for banks by […]
