Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Cuomo v. Nixon, DCCC. employment situation, capital spending, truck manufacturing, Blue Apron, Iowa corn, Jobs Guarantee, world’s most hair-raising U-turn
Friday, August 8, 2025
How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
Reader Inquiry: How’s Your Climate?
Seeking reader observations on the impact of climate change in their environs.
Gaius Publius: Setting a Perjury Trap for Trump
Is Mueller engaging in prosecutorial overreach in the form of trying to set a perjury trap for Trump?
Congress Offers Bipartisan Blank Warmaking Check to Donald Trump
Major Danny Sjursen chronicles the sorry history of Congress ceding its check on war-making powers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: DCCC delenda est, midterms, the press and the spies, norms, productivity, factory orders, Elon Musk, portable nukes, mesh networks, the workplace
The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the relentless rise in inequality.
New Report: Most State Pension Funds, Including CalPERS, Lag 60/40 Investment Mix at Higher Cost, Resulting in Even Higher Shortfalls
Yet another stunning indictment of public pension fund management. If the biggest funds with the best staffs can’t beat a simple Vanguard portfolio, why aren’t more heads rolling?
#TSBFail: MPs Barely Lay a Glove on CEO Pester, Who Discredits Himself All on His Own
Even with a mere wet-noodle lashing by MPs, TSB came off pretty badly in Parliament.
The Revenge Against the Commons
Why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968 is prepared to kill for Macron to roust a 4000 acre commons.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Jobs Gaurantee, Pelosi, May primaries, Fletcher v. Moser, employment, lost bank data, Apple results, Elon Musk, loneliness, Arizona teachers, Jupyter
China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
