Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, aircraft imports, Booker, Sanders, Clinton, Democrat consultants attack nurses, home sales, apparel, Mr. Market in his happy space, Uwe Reinhardt, Teamster contract, forgotten suffragettes, law and economics, the Makerphone
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/19/2018
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 138 Comments »
Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Media watch, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 253 Comments »
Links 10/19/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 201 Comments »
Naked Capitalism: Ten Years After Lehman
Naked Capitalism got the last crisis right and why it will probably have the opportunity to get the next crisis right.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:33 am | 9 Comments »
Brexit: Knives Out for Theresa May (Again) Over Extending Transition Period
The lay of the Brexit land is becoming clearer after the inconclusive October European Council summit.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Globalization, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:31 am | 55 Comments »
Win for Students Having Loans From For–Profit Educational Institutions
Students get a rare break on the student debt front.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Student loans
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:33 am | 2 Comments »
Gaius Publius: Analyzing the New NAFTA Deal — Better, But Not by Much
Why the new, improved NAFTA is only a little less bad than the old one.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:51 am | 5 Comments »
Hooray! Met Our Fifth Goal, On to Our Sixth: Karōshi Prevention
Help with our sixth fundraising goal, to keep everyone at their sharpest and preventing burnout by supporting site staffing.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:21 pm | 6 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump and the postal subsidy, Biden 2020, Warren and the Cherokees, Sanders on foreign policy, Georgia shenanigains, Hillary Clinton, the Resistance, leading indicators, business outlook, Theranos, uber, robot cars, news deserts, Maine Question 1, books
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 90 Comments »
Announcing the 2018 “Sarah Henry Double-Your-Donation Challenge”!
Sarah Henry is sponsoring a new donor challenge! Please take her up on her generosity!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:20 am | 10 Comments »
Trump and Jamal Khashoggi— Saudi Arabia Has Been Bribing the US with Arms Sales for Years
An effort to put l’affaire Khashoggi in the context of the US-Saudi relationship.
Topics: Banana republic, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 43 Comments »
Links 10/18/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 179 Comments »
Naked Capitalism: Turning Darkness Into Light
How Naked Capitalism regularly puts the US business media to shame.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:36 am | 8 Comments »
Brexit: Fatal Complacency?
EU leaders have apparently decided that dealing with Brexit isn’t a pressing matter. That’s not a good move.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Legal, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:35 am | 38 Comments »
Germany Clashes With The U.S. Over Energy Geopolitics
Germany lambastes the US over its threat to sanction companies that participate in Nord Stream 2.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:04 am | 46 Comments »