Today’s Water Cooler: Manufacturing and tariffs, corn v. soy, Harris, Sanford, Sanders, Warren, Rahm Emmanuel, Lord & Taylor, AirBnB, Uber and Lyft, cam models, recession or nah, Amazon fires, Alaska ice, Epstein + Falwell, the em dash
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and retail, Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren, employment situation, Amazon and automation, Burry on index funds, Yahoo debacle, Boeing woes, climate and economic models, lawns, simulation modeling, homeless fires, Harlan County miners, Chris Arnade, folk-zoological knowledge
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Weld, Climate Town Hall, Immaneul Wallerstein on the Resistance, employment situation, factory orders, services, ethanal, bulk shipping, Apple, hysteresis, Dorian and poultry farms, Harlan County coal miner protest, human speech, audio books and reading, influencers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: BoJo loses majority, Biden, Buttigieg, De Blasio, Gillibrand, Harris,O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, manufacturing (bad), Tesla, Google. history of Medicare for All, slavery, Kaepernick, glamping on Governor’s Island, British life expectancy, mortality
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden gaffe, Gabbard, Sanders on foreign policy, Trump, Warren, AOC, anti-fascism, personal income and outlays, consumer confidence, employment situation, robot cars, passive investing bubble, Hurricane Dorian, Joe Rogan, scofflaw coal companies, bail, the hyphen
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Google moves phone manufacturing to Vietnam, Sanders, Trump, Warren, CA independents, redistricting, left Straussians, jobless claims, GDP, trade, inventories, shipping wind turbines, fractal microbiomes, Harvard and carbon, neuroscience Ursula LeGuin, Peanuts
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Warren, Stacey Abrams, business uncertainty, investor confidence, Facebook and gambling addiction, micro-lending, Boeing 737 MAX, asteroid Ryugu, Rosa Parks Barbie, Popeyes workers, Blackjewel workers, dark markets, Sumerian
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: New polling aggregator, Biden, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, Warren, consumer confidence, manufacturing, housing, network outages, Boeing, Huawei, Ford, Tesla, brain parasites, boreal carbon, Medieval peasants, Campbell awards, Walter Benjamin, Nancy
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Walsh, Warren, DNC hits up the expats, durable goods, national activity index, manufacturing, Shopify, Apple, Dairy Queen, “fly by wire,” the Amazon fires, reforestation in Detroit and Nepal, Monsanto, Chevron, “American Factory,” unions and Tinder, utilitarianism, George R. R. Martin
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Harris, Moulton, Sanders, Warren, Epstein Scandal, Susan Sarandon, the Obamas go househunting, faithless electors, new home sales, manufacturing, WeWork, Amazon, Boeing, Larry Summers, North China plain, middle class woes, Internet of Sh*t
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Gabbard, Harris, Inslee, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Susan Sarandon (!), election reform, jobless claims, leading indicators, manufacturing, Tesla v. Walmart, fake meat, recession, Milky Way, PFAS, Nat Turner, UAW corruption, Luca Pacioli
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I had a schedule debacle and so this Water Cooler is at present shockingly truncated. I’ll update in a rolling fashion section by section. I hope there’s enough here to get you going. –lambert UPDATE All done. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: The dollar, Biden, Harris, Inslee, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, Obama’s first film, Susan Sarandon Derangment, Epstein, redistricting, Amazon, WeWork, Apple, Boeing, consumer data, vaping, climate and teeth, gut microbiota, cannabis, self-citing scientists
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Polling, Buttigieg, Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, 2018 and 2020 post mortems, evangelicals, e-commerce, ethanol, AI in China, robot trucks, bees and regenerative farming, Arctic wildfires, California regulators, Harlan County miners, deaths of despair, selfies, birth photographers, customer service chatbots
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Warren, IA voters, the campaign press, Democrat “voter protection teams,” DCCC, consumer sentiment, housing starts, trucking, Dollar General, WeWork’s horrid IPO, Uber cost-cutting, Tesla’s robot car scam, tamping down yield curve angst, lending apps, Internet of Sh*t
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