2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Seth Moulton, Trump in NY-21 and NY-22, capital spending, shipping, Google’s dark patterns, capacity constraints, smart cities, ayahuasca
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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, tariffs and fish, China trade, Avenatti 2020, midterms, consumer prices, oil, Mr. Market, the press and intelligence, heat, habits, the mind
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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] […]
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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
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Today’s Water Cooler, including today’s primaries, the Koch brothers, liberalism and cruelty, job openings, shipping, Amazon, Tesla, Appalachia, brain twisters, Maine “Sea Goddess” dethroned.
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...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.
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Obama and Clinton endorsements, Maslow’s hierarchy, factory orders, Uber, health insurance, libraries, temporarily open thread
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Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and Obama, more Facebook panic, employment, doctors and “moral injury,” political data projects, temporarily open thread
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: GMO and trade, IA-01, VA-05, the Democrat Party, social democracy/democratic socialism, paper ballots, personal income, manufacturing, bees, Strafford Beer, getting to sleep
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...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...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: EU tariffs, NAFTA, paper ballots, partisanship and luxury goods, durable goods, manufacturing, trade, Facebook debacle, AI, Mars opposition, labor economics ad technology, CRISPR in the bathroom
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Farmers prefer Trump do trade deals than hand them cash” [Associated Press]. ” Many farmers remain critical of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the damage done to commodity prices and markets but were appreciative Tuesday that he offered to provide some cash to help offset their losses… “This is […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Ocasio-Cortez, Russia narrative, manufacturing, commodities, shipping, Google, local journalism, Facebook, living in your car, Apple’s thin laptop debacle
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