Today’s Water Cooler: National activity, manufacturing, 737 softwar fix, the Fed and inflation, recession signals, carbon markets, Missouri flooding, grazing lands and carbon capture, cliimate and disease, Mount Everest, kale, the Sacklers, Amazon strike, Uber/Lyft strike, Internet of Sh*t
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2019
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 64 Comments »
Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Topics: Africa, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Health care, India, Infrastructure
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 10:55 am | 14 Comments »
Links 3/25/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 213 Comments »
Climate Change: Hurricanes to Deliver a Bigger Punch to Coasts
Tropical cyclone Idai may be a harbinger of further catastrophic coastal storms; climate change projections suggest the number of intense hurricanes will rise.
Topics: Africa, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:45 am | 25 Comments »
Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain
In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:16 am | 91 Comments »
Matt Taibbi: It’s Official – Russiagate is This Generation’s WMD
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, New McCarthyism, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:05 am | 181 Comments »
Second Roundup Decision: Jury Finds Weedkiller a “Substantial Cause” of Plantiff’s Cancer
A San Francisco jury found last Tuesday that Roundup – the glyphosate-based weedkiller – was “a substantial cause “ of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the first of a three-stage process, which focused only on scientific evidence.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Legal
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 10:55 am | 48 Comments »
Links 3/24/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 263 Comments »
Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash
This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.
Topics: Banana republic, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Taxes
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 5:25 am | 3 Comments »
Five Ways to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun Too)
Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 am | 42 Comments »
Airbus and Boeing Are Signing Economic Suicide Pacts With China
Western companies that ought to know better are setting themselves up to have their lunch eaten by China.
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:58 am | 75 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden/Abrams trial balloon, Gravel, Sanders, Yang, Meuller report to drop?, DCCC cripples challengers, wholesale trade, new home sales, manufacturing, Boeing, oil traders, JP Morgan and oil funding, premature spring, apple trees, trust fund squirrels, excellence in food
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 203 Comments »
Work of the Past, Work of the Future
How the change in the nature of work has helped increase income inequality.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 3/22/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 260 Comments »