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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, debates, Borscht belt comedians, “Queens Man Impeached,” Epstein, “existential,” start-ups,, Kalanick cashes out, Starliner, EV battery sales down, 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions, the global financial system, TheRedPill
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: EU trade, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Yang, impeachment, Times Cenk correction, John Solomon, political comedy, mystery pork, FedEx, Softbank, Ring security, magnetic north, the Mediterranean, Alaskan farming, citizen science, homeless in Las Vegas, the Clash
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Buttigeig, Sanders, Trump, Warren, the California ballot, voting machines, Democrat debates, Amazon, Google, venture capital, content moderation, COP25 debacle, coal demand, feral hogs, billionaire playgrounds, transportation infrastructure, coffee
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment, California’s tricky ballot, manufacturing, Boeing 737, venture capital is broken, the Amazon, a Blue New Deal, gardening game (!), Xmas, hermit crabs and inequality, Gary Snyder, the Internet
Read more...Misunderstanding Volcker
A reappraisal of Volcker, who was more hostile to workers and less hard on financiers than the press would have you believe.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, employment situation, banking, commodities, Tesla, United Airlines, the ozone layer, permafrost, ocean oxygen, Portuguese wildfires, Florida keys, groundwater, USC corruption, Uber, climate change and labor
Read more...Links 12/5/19
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Moar trade tension, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Harris drops out, Sanders,Trump, Warren, shale, Amazon, railroads, shipbuilding, Uber, Tesla, recession watch, climate and financial disclosure, climate negotiation jargon, Twitch, consent, Nancy, model towns
Read more...Links 11/28/19
PG&E Failed California. Here’s How the State Could Turn Things Around.
How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade optimism, Buttigieg, Booker, Sanders, Yang, Iowa poll, another lunatic impeachment witness, Obama legacy, housing, services, Walmart retail v. etail, hacking bounty, slowdown signs, butterflies, soil, hyperosmia, Young Adult literature, economic insecurity for over-65s, FedEx, memory, handwriting
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/18/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Forever trade war, Iowa polling, Trump, Warren, impeachment, Obama legacy, housing, frack sand collapse, container shipping, aircraft sales, robot cars to increase driving, giant structures in the universe, junk, landfills, more efficient toilets, dentistry, the press, wage theft, Hokusai
Read more...America’s Arms Sales Addiction
The sorry history of how US arms sales have made the world less safe, and aren’t all that good for America either.
Read more...“Do You Have To Travel the World To Know What Poverty Is?”
A revealing discussion of poverty, in not a good way.
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