Economists do not have much nice to say about the UK’s Brexit transition deal.
Friday, August 8, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, gerrymandering, Jennifer Palmieri, the liberal world order, national activity, shipping, infrastructure, Facebook, trainhopping, Nash equilibria
Plastic Watch: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Grows
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major plastic accumulation zone located between California and Hawaii, is growing at a rate greater than previously believed, according to a new scientific paper published last week.
Aliso Canyon Disaster Highlights Risks, Inadequate Safety Rules Governing Natural Gas Storage
Report documents how the self-regulation fairy proved itself as inept in protecting the public from dysfunctional management decisions that compromised safety and led to the Alito Canyon natural gas disaster.
Brexit: UK Capitulates
The latest installment in the Brexit soap opera.
Employers to Women: Could You Be Any Dumber (Please)?
Being smart is not a plus for career-minded women.
Biodiversity Plummets, Posing Grave Global Threat
Three years in the making, comprehensive UN report on declining biodiversity identifies this trend as a major threat to continued survival.
Who Will Stop the US-Russia Arms Race?
Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.
The Euro Area’s Deepening Political Divide
The Euro is creating new fault lines. Eurozone leaders need to give greater priority to national interests, particularly of economic “losers”.
Surveillance is the DNA of the Platform Economy
The outcry over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica conveniently ignores the real issues: the pervasiveness of surveillance and the need to insist on stronger privacy rights.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade Wars?, Nixon v. Cuomo, DCCC at it again, wave election, durable goods, Tesla, Facebook fracas, FOSTA, robots, water, inflation, Amazon data centers
Resisting the Gig Economy: The Emergence of Cooperative Food Delivery Platforms
Labor-squeezing platform providers: how to fight fire with fire.
