Today’s Water Cooler: CCTPP, NAFTA, Sanders and Biden 2020, Chelsea Manning, leading indicators, robot manufacturing, platforms, poverty
Thursday, July 31, 2025
A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit
On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/24/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: TPP to CPTPP, Democrat base, Patriots v. Eagles, chemical activity, housing, Amazon, robot cars, sugar daddies, capital
More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
Debunking some pet conservative myths about the opiate crisis.
Dear Elon: Tesla’s Base Is Not the Model S Coalition
How Elon Musk is doing a great job of alienation a critically important part of Tesla’s Model S coalition.
Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
CalPERS’ Fiduciary Counsel, Ashley Dunning, Lies to Board to Defend Private Equity Secrecy and Perpetuate Inadequate Supervision of Staff
Yet another example of the culture of casual lying at CalPERS and the deep-seated effort to neuter its board.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump tariffs, 2018 wave, Twitter and 2016, manufacturing, Amazon Go, robot cars, globalization, Krugman, Case-Deaton
Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?
On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
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