Today’s Water Cooler: Gravel, Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Yang, “meeting needs,” identity politics, Democrats to ban free IRS tax filing, consumer price index, bitcoin, Tesla, WeWork, Facebook, Apple, urban farming, cashews, student loans and suicide, mobile homes, new black hole
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Ryan (new),O’Rourke and gentrification, Sanders, AOC, DCCC, Crosscheck, DSA in Chicago, employment situation, Tesla, robot cars, Boeing 737 MAX, global CO2 emissions, Green New Deal, pollinator-friendly solar projects, science and the slave trade, machine tools
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, reparations, durable goods, coincident indexes, bonds, private equity, Walgreens, Subway, Epic Games, startups, natural forests, climate action in Congress, loneliness, sex, coding, the singularity, dissonant music
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and 737, Sanders, AOC, moar RussiaGate, Ed Buck, international trade, bonds, Market Basket, bonds, natural gas, air pollution casualties, volcanic threats, health insurance horror stories, “Baby Ivies,” money, moralizing Gods, male birth control pill, early risers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Boeing and China, Biden and Abrams, Gravel (!), Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, “replacement theory,” leading indicators, employment, manufacturing, services, Facebook, Google PageRank, plate tectonics, anti-vax, MMT
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden, Gravel (!), Klobuchar, O’Rourke, Sanders, Chelsea Clinton, mortgages, Boeing 737 MAX, AirBnB, Google, realtors, AI, electric buses, climate change and heart disease, Canada v. U.S. health care, Ramsey Orta, anti-vax, how spies use disguises
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Harris, Biden, CNN, #MedicareForAll, vote harvesting, factory orders, housing, retail and wholesale trade, Elon “Tusk,” Lake Erie Bill of Rights, Isha Clarke and DiFi, cap and trade, Green New Deal, wage growth, data manipulation, UI/UX
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: 2020 and open thread (for now).
Read more...CalPERS is once again up to no good on the private equity front.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Harris, Buttegeig, Sunrise Movement, industrial production, manufacturing, consumer sentiment, import and export prices, auto, Wall Street and infrastructure, nuclear power, medical bankruptcy, predictive policing, Amazon Ring, Opportunity Mars Rover
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Ilhan Omar and Puff Daddy, JOLTS, small business optimism, Google fiber debacle in Louisville, Waymo after a decade, Amazon warehouses, broadband, carbon capture, human trolls, the military and the poor, Stonehenge, drunk witnesses, gym class
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Warren’s Cherokee eruption, Booker and charters, Gabbard, Biden Agonistes, the SOTU, a Manhattan dinner party, international trade, productivity and costs, mortgage applications, housing, online advertising, geo-engineering, climate optimism, Karl Polanyi
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