Category Archives: Water Cooler

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2019

Today’s Water Cooler:

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2019

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Trade “WTO: US Can Sanction Nearly $8 Billion of EU Goods Over Airbus Aid” [Industry Week]. “The World Trade Organization will authorize the U.S. to impose tariffs on nearly $8 billion of European goods due to illegal state aid provided to aircraft maker Airbus SE, according to people familiar with […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/26/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Iran oil to China blocked, trade deal with Japan, Warren and big donors, WFP, and #MedicareForAll, latest on Ukraine, Epstein and Prince Andrew, jobless claims, GDP, international trade, Uber, WeWork, Peloton, Tesla, Amazon, hedgies and vaping, climate and the oceans, income inequality, Piketty on billionaires, GM strike

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/25/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment fracas (especially the timing), democracy, the left, new home sales, business uncertainty, investor confidence, WeWork, Daimler, Boeing 737, sea level rise, rain forests, Clarence Thomas, Kaiser and GM strikes, machine malfunction

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK) is in the process of developing the following interactive […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/23/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK) is in the process of developing the following interactive […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2020

Today’s Water Cooler:

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/19/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, “the party decides,” Clinton on 2016, Kavanaugh, jobless claims, home sales, leading indicators, current accounts, rail traffic, CSX, FedEx, independent bookstores, malls, crystals, sex robots, ocean plastic, alt-meat in the Third World, GM strike, influencers, the first female tourist

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/18/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: open thread.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and China innovation, BIden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Yang, NC redistricting, industrial production, housing, Houston Ship Channel, fraud at J.P. Morgan, Peloton, Nucor, the Amazon, city heat and poverty, feral hogs, jazz, housing and health, Adolph Reed, passive-aggressiveness

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, undecided voters, impeachment, Kavanaugh, Democrat debates, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Uber and cash, Peter Thiel, Softbank, robot cars, the Amazon, the Santee Delta, Jeffrey Epstein, UAW, Carpenters Union, amazing quantum algorithm

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: The Democrat debates, with drinking games and Biden on record-players, impeachment, think tanks, Robeson County, jobless claims, consumer sentiment, retail sales, consumer price index, Boeing, Lenovo Yoga laptops, feelings

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Harris, Sanders, Axelrove on Trump, Hillary Clinton, 9/11, counterfeit gold bars, rail traffic, WeWork, Facebook, food wars, gas flaring, wind farms and landfills, ocean drilling, racism and origins of tech, fake meat, Daniel Johnston, spending less time on the phone

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/11/2019

Today’s Water Cooler:

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/10/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, undecided voters, Rachel Maddow, Neera Tanden’s union busting, employment, small business optimism, Uber, Lyft, Boeing, Amazon, SpaceX, scooters, corvids, crabs, cattle, AI, deaths of despair, Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS