Friday, August 8, 2025
Millennials Are Waiting For The End Of Capitalism
Not surprisingly, Millennials are not in very good financial shape…..
Bank Enthusiasm for Blockchain Waning
Blockchain hype is finally meeting commercial realities.
Wolf Richter: Tesla Slammed by Tesla (and Moody’s)
Tesla’s bubble is starting to deflate.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/28/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: KORUS, China trade and administration “entanglements,” political veterans, GDP, corporate profits, Trump tanks Amazon stock, Facebook, Internet of Sh*t, diet
The Necessary Transience of Happiness
Questioning the modern obsession with happiness.
Why Not to Expect Much from US Trade Talks With China
Why the Trump trade threats towards China aren’t likely to be terribly productive.
Job Guarantee Winning More Fans on the Left and Right
The Job Guarantee is (finally) a topic that can be discussed in polite company.
Over One Fifth of Student Borrowers Used Loans to Gamble on Cryptocurrencies
A new category of cryptocurrency sucker, and even worse, leveraged traders to boot.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/27/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: KORUS, nationalizing the midterms, the Parkland kids, #MedicareForAll, manufacturing, consumer confidence, Uber, Facebook Fracas, a new human organ
How the Agricultural Revolution Changed our Social and Economic Evolution
How agriculture produced ultrasociality, a major change in human evolution.
Winners and Losers as PE Firm Cerberus’s Remington “Rollup” Collapses into Bankruptcy
Who are the bagholders in the Remington bankruptcy?
The Decline in Quality of Manufacturing Entrepreneurship in the US
Yes, Virginia, US manufacturing is going downhill at the bottom of the food chain as well as from the top.
