2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Warren’s corporate governance proposal, midterms, productivity, inventories, retail, Elon Musk, UPS contract, infrastructure, economic anxiety, cash
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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Hope Is Not a Plan: The Myth of American Manufacturing” [Industry Week]. “In building a case for an American manufacturing renaissance, economists cite increasing productivity, cheap natural gas, and rising value-added figures to show that manufacturing is in good shape and will get better. Some of these positivists [sic] […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/8/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Deval Patrick, reports from yesterday’s midterms (especially OH-12), “Witch Hunt,” consumer credit, 3D printing, Lada, International Cat Day
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I’m off to the optometrist’s this afternoon! –lambert Trade https://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2157320/factories-shift-out-china-avoid-trade-war-boosting-volume “China said it’s [hitting $60 billion worth of U.S. exports with new tariffs] ‘because the U.S. side has repeatedly escalated the situation despite the interest of both enterprises and consumers’ and it must ‘[a]defend the country’s dignity and the interests […]
Read more...What’s with the New York City Subway System?
Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Obama endorsements, OH-12, employment situation, Tesle, Apple, wildflowers, the Atlantic conveyor, farmers’ markets, and temporarily open thread.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Obama and Clinton endorsements, Maslow’s hierarchy, factory orders, Uber, health insurance, libraries, temporarily open thread
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, TTiP, Eric Holder 2020, 2016 post mortem, brutalism, “Trump Anxiety Disorder”, housing, manufacturing, Tesla teardowns, pipelines, Harvard admissions, processed cheese
Read more...More Brexit Grim Tidings: WTO Warns Ireland to Prepare for Crash-Out; Deutsche Moves Half of Euro Clearing Ops to Germany; Food Freakout
More on how the Brexit situation is developing not necessarily to the UK’s advantage.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Export bump, midterms, the gender gap, AOC, Stacey Abrams, Puerto Rico, DSA and youth, GDP and spin, consumer sentiment, batteries, Uber, AI, Mars, libaries
Read more...Obama Continues His Long Con at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
Former United States Barack Obama[1] gave the Sixteenth Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture[2] on July 17 before 15,000 people at the Bidvest Wanderers Stadium in Illovo, a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg. The lecture was also streamed online. The event was sponsored by the Nelson Mandela Foundation[3]. I really ought to get out my magic markers and […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war, Novartis, Mueller indicts 12 Russians, import and export, consumer prices, Fed indicators, AirBnB, cybersecurity, origin of homo sapiens, neutrinos, urbanization
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: No longer an open thread. Supply chain, Iranian aircraft, Democrat hilarity, Thomas Frank, consumer credit, small business optimism, consumer expectations, debt, Paul Krugman, Jobs Guarantee, municipal socialism, Janus, rationality, ethics of AI
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war with China, Cuomo, open borders, the Weathermen, employment situation, international trade, robot cars, platinum, taxing the rich, the marshmallow test, smart homes
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/5/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade slowdown?, abortion politics, services, employment situation, truck manufacturers, Boeing/Embraer, GM, guillotine watch, stress, maps, hot dogs
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