Category Archives: Water Cooler

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Florida Senate race, midterms, “the groundlings,” cybernetics and hegemony, employment situation, Facebook fracas, Viking sunstones, self-esteem

Today’s Water Cooler: China tariffs, Sanders in Jackson, Warren, Wisconsin, employment situation, teachers strikes, health care costs, Mississippi flooding, Isao Takahata

Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs, Sanders in Jackson, midterms (WI, FL, MN), Emily’s List, Documenters, coincident indicators, truck drivers, Facebook, women’s clothing, crapified construction

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I accidentally published the following cryptic list at the end of Water Cooler, twice: pyramid river foreigners One reader thought it was a cry for help; another proposed that it was a haiku. In fact, it was a do-list for me, some bite-size essays that weren’t post-worthy, but that […]

Today’s Water Cooler: Chappaquiddick, motor vehicle sales, manfacturing, debt, Amtrak, Tesla autopilot and production numbers, John Williams at the Fed, dialectical memes

Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread

Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, Trump bounce, the Democrat base, Tesla manufacturing ills, Uber technology woes, Facebook Fracas, hip hop, Wittgenstein’s emojis

Today’s Water Cooler: KORUS, China trade and administration “entanglements,” political veterans, GDP, corporate profits, Trump tanks Amazon stock, Facebook, Internet of Sh*t, diet

Today’s Water Cooler: KORUS, nationalizing the midterms, the Parkland kids, #MedicareForAll, manufacturing, consumer confidence, Uber, Facebook Fracas, a new human organ

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, gerrymandering, Jennifer Palmieri, the liberal world order, national activity, shipping, infrastructure, Facebook, trainhopping, Nash equilibria