Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs, Biden, Beto, election shenanigans, AOC, DSA, callout culture, housing market, e-commerce, Elon Musk, Carlos Ghosn, Tim Cook, Medicare for All, constitutional law, SEIU, brainwaves
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, sorry for the “late” post. My habit is to set my clock a little ahead, as a lash and a spur to actually press the submit button by deadline, but the Mac’s latest OS seems to get huffy if my time is set “incorrectly,” and so I accidentally reset […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Greens, Congressional Black Caucus, ME-02, suburban Democrats, fascism, retail sales, manufacturing, import and export, inventories, Amazon, Blue Apron, Uber, Goldman, Royal Bank of Scotland, PG&E, American music, asphalt
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Clinton, Massachusetts Greens, Mike Espy, Bush rehabilitation, consumer price index, consumer spending, inflation expectations, Amazon, Comcast, private equity, Mr. Market, luxe panic rooms, Migrants, the homeless, Idoru in RL, origins of patriarchy
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Increased pre-tariff imports, Beto, Pelosi, post-midterms House, small business optimism, bank regulation, small warehouses, Teamster contract, robot cars, Apple, wildfires, meat substitutes, Amazon HQ, DSA, 3D printing and toxic fumes, Stan Lee
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Harris, mid-terms post mortem, ME-02 and ranked choice voting, Atlantic Council on Russia, producer prices, wholesale trade, consumer sentiment, water wars, investors tracking carbon, billionaires, Iowa undergrad union, Apple
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Suburbs in 2020, mid-terms post mortem, cybersecurity, Ginsburg cracks ribs, consumer credit, jobless claims, capital investment, Bombardier, Foxconn, Apple, infrastructure, new HR676 supporters, LSD in the Seventh Fleeet, ham radio
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Hot takes on yesterday’s election.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Democrats on trade, Harris, Clinton, and Trump, final mid-terms handicapping, the business of voting, Lysistratic non-action, job openings, port security, doctors and computers, the service class, privacy nihilism, political arguments
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Mexican trucks, soybeans, Wall Street backs Dems, final midterms handicapping, wave elections, services, Tesla gigafactory, trauma and hate, Google strike, Halloween in Japan, Simon Stålenhag, text editors
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trade deficits, China and IP, Trump, Warren, mid-terms handicapping, GA governor, employment, manufacturing, Goldman Sachs and 1MDB, Medicaid expansion, the local press, Google protest, UPS strike, resetting clocks
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Midterms handicapping, Willie Horton in 2018, FL and GA governors, Wall Street and moderate Democrats, productivity, manufacturing, construction, delivery robots, Google, markets and climate change, culture
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China PMI, tariff exemptions, Pelosi “we will win,” ranked choice voting, AOC staffer benefits, Mike Duncan “How Republics End,” employment, employment cost, Apple, Necco, same-day delivery, stabilization wedges, maroons, Happy Halloween
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Midterms handicapping, IA-04, MO Senate, consumer confidence, housing, empty containers, aircraft supply chain, scooters, Facebook, bulls and bears, bees, free case law, Hubble Telescope, paper towels v. air dryers
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