Today’s Water Cooler: G-7, trade strategy, Airbus, Sanders challenged, why executives run for office, wholesale trade, supply chain, McDonalds, KFC, vaping, Anthony Bourdain, algorithms, Coltrane
Saturday, February 7, 2026
How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide
How Chinese money is distorting home prices in major cities around the world, and how local authorities are starting to intervene.
The Battle for Money Has Begun
Why the current fights over money, banking, and Modern Monetary Theory look like new ways to achieve bad neoliberal ends.
OCC Covering Up for Wells Fargo Type Abuses at Other Banks
The OCC found lots of bad bank conduct in retail-land, but refuses to say anything about who is cheating and what they are up to.
New CDC Study Shows Large Increase in Suicides Since 1999
Rising suicides provide more evidence that all is not well in America.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/7/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Presidential trade powers, Democrats and the wave (or not), CA and VA, superdelegates, bad faith, jobless claims, capital investment, robot cars, infrastructure, New Yorker unionizing
Worrying About the Deficit Is So 17th Century
Deficit hawks have been wrong for even longer than you thought.
A 1,000-Year Flood in Maryland Shows the Big Problem With So Much Asphalt
Why Ellicott City’s flood didn’t have to be the disaster it was.
McKinsey’s and CalPERS’ Ignorance and Sleight of Hand on Private Equity
McKinesy and CalPERS appear to be kidding themselves at least as much as the general public on the subject of private equity.
A Hard Look at the Mini-BOT, the Parallel Currency Idea of Italy’s New Ruling Coalition
The mini-BOT has only been sketched out at a high level. How might it work and more important, would it succeed as a parallel currency?
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel, China and Oil, Schultz boomlet, Sanders on the trail, 2018 midterms, Cuomo v Nixon, trade, productivity, leading indicators, single payer, labor and the supply chain
The Political Significance of LSD
LSD is back in vogue. Is that a good thing?
