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: Harris, Booker, Iowa, anti-semitism flap, DNC shenanigains, retail sales, business inventories, employment, Amazon drops NYC HQ plans, Lexipol, Newspaper Guild, insulin, Medicare Advantage, influencers, urban planning, fun with cranes
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Holder, Harris, Bloomberg, Omar’s “Kinsley Gaffe,” AOC, consumer price index, business inflation expectations, Saudi tanker, podcast advertising, Walmart, Amazon, Mars One, car payments, batteries, privatized water, worker co-ops, snakes in the grass
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: Xi and Trump, Warren, Harris, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Gabbard, ideology, choosing a candidate, Wells Fargo fire, Boeing financials, Amazon and shippers, cellphone sales, labor market, “ocean memory,” evolution and co-operation, the Jacquard loom
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sherrod Brown, Abrams v. Sanders on the SOTU, campaign contributions in 2018, jobless claims, landlords and tenants, foldable smartphones, Microsoft and AI, EVs and the cold, Tesla, bulls and bears, weed, Twitter, billionaires, historical thinking, Inca bridges
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
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Booker, Booker, Booker, Warren, Sanders, SOTU, Pelosi and #MedicareForAll, services, Target, QuadrigaCX bitcoin debacle, recession calls, CO2 removal, “fight club” charges dropped, sex ed, Henry Miller, Ursula LeGuin, Philosophers International
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Booker announces, Howard Schultz, Klobuchar, employment situation (“quirky”), manufacturing, consumer sentiment, retail, SS7 hacking, smartphones, Apple,Sony, Amazon, 5G, crude oil, Enbridge 3, teachers strikes, Der Speigel, Dave Asprey, Apollo computing, recursion, nihilism
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Medicare for All, Sanders on estate taxes, Bloomberg, AOC, the Wall, personal income, jobless claims, new home sales, manufacturing, OxyContin, Comcast, Tesla, the cold snap, forest fires, sea stars, Amazon and unions, memorization, MySpace
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Howard Schultz, Harris, Bloomberg, Clinton, beyond George Lakoff, impeachment, soft coup, Stacey Abrams, GDP, home sales, ADP employment, Facebook, InstaCart, Google, Apple, the polar vortex, animism, billionaires, labor power, bloatware, “You’re fine”
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, Warren, Trump, Virginia schools and Amazon, corruption in Chicago, Google donations, AI and “reinforcement learning,” computer architecture, platforms and biopower, Jacob Hacker, Silicon Valley, Gustave Doré
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Howard Schultz, AOC, DSA brakelight clinics, taxes and capital investment, manufacturing, lithium, Walmart, Caterpillar, Uber, Amazon, China’s Theranos of robot cars, sky wonders, ancient jellyfish, water, labor and ending the shutdown, billionaires, neanderthals
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