Today’s Water Cooler: Solar, Manafort, Northam, Democrat autopsy, employment cost, consumer confidence, shipping, capital mobility, dreams
Saturday, July 19, 2025
40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
Catalonia Secession Becomes Damp Squib as Catalans Accept Direct Rule
The Catalonia secession fantasy dies a quick death.
What Do Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Dick Cheney, Oprah Winfrey, Erin Brockovich, Stephen Hawking, Harrison Ford, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jon Krakauer, Michelle Obama, Dan Rathers, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yours Truly Have in Common? Smeared by a Soros-Funded Think Tank for Appearing on RT
Another day, another McCarthyite blacklist, this one of people who have appeared on RT, which turns out to be quite a star-studded list.
An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics
A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/30/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: Manafort and Papadopoulos, antifa, college Republicans, Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, personal income, Tesla, candy
Hospital-Acquired Infections: Can You Avoid Them by Being a “Smart Shopper”?
Is “shopping” for a hospital just a crap shoot?
Student Loans: Teacher Horror Story a Reminder of Failure to Fix Broken Servicing Model
Democrats fiddle as lousy servicing of student loans further harm borrowers.
Corruption Uncertainty and Corporate Practices
evidence suggests that while foreign-controlled firms are unaffected by the corruption uncertainty factor, domestic firms decrease investments significantly when uncertainty about corruption practices increases.
Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase
What Coase really said about oursourcing, and why that matters.
Reminder: Philly Meetup This Thursday, November 2!
Announcing the time and place for our first Philly meetup!
In Praise of Public Libraries
Why libraries are popular today, and how they have helped me (with two Internet incidents)
