Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders app, the Indivisibe pledge, CAP, employment, manufacturing, housing, construction, credit card debt, House Rules Committee #MedicareForAll hearing, data as blood, water, snow, drought, Uber strike, athletes and testosterone
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade deal and enforcement, Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, AM radio, manufacturing, employment cost, housing, Alden Capital, Boeing, Tesla, permafrost, health insurance, the Battle of Winterfell, the codex vs. the scroll
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Moulton, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Weld, the Clintons, redistricting, white nationalism, factory farms, personal income, manufacturing, UK fracking, ocean plastic, thunderstorms, reforestation, PFAS, Stanford University Press, adjuncts, Zuckerberg, computers and kids
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread, until it isn’t!
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden (with logo), Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, impeachment, picking a left cabinet, durable goods, jobless claims, manufacturing, Boeing, Tesla, robot cars, Iowa water quality, glyphosates and epigenetics, plastics, happy cats, Marshall McLuhan
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Castro, Gravel punches above his weight, Sanders, Warren, the Intercept v. Politico, Clinton on impeachment, housing, Tesla, Waymo, Boeing, Caterpillar, Facebook, permafrost, urban microbiota, Williams pipeline, Instagrammer union (!), psilocybin, Dr. Ruth
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade ISDS encourages off-shoring? See the extract from Stiglitz: I'm reading @JosephEStiglitz's new book, "People, Power, & Profits". Really appreciate this point about globalisation & wages: It's not just that wages are cheaper overseas, but our trade agreements give companies stronger rights if they invest overseas than at home. #ISDS […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Buttigieg (black votes; homeless), Moulton, Sanders and reparations, Warren and college debt, organizing v. mobilizing, national activity, housing, Thin Mints, Union Pacific, fitness tracking, digital, the “Underland,” diatoms, cannabis, California, librarians, Notre Dame
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and WTO, Biden to run, Buttigieg (Zuckerberg; donors), Harris, Moulton (!), Sanders, Warren, Yang, RussiaGate, super-delegates, jobless claims, leading indicators, retail sales, Sears, Lyft, CA carbon tax debacle, real-time evolution, plastic bags, Johnny Cash, brains, cats, badgers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Mueller report and open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Buttigieg and national service, Gravel outpolls Gillibrand, Harris in South Carolina, Sanders,Trump, Warren, Pelosi vs. AOC, AOC and Green New Deal, housing, international trade, retail trade, Zuckerberg (again), CO2, geoengineering, Lake Erie, MMT, Tiger Woods, class warfare
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Q1 Democrat fundraising, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders (FOX, CAP, taxes), Trump, Pelosi, reparations, industrial production, housing, AirBnB, Huawei, Kropotkin on climate, ridesharing and traffic fatalities, dairy farming, Game of Thrones, cats and dogs
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and brokered convention, Buttigieg and South Bend, Booker’s crowds, Harris’s book, Sanders vs. Neera Tanden cage match, Trump could win, Yang, voting machines, manufacturing, Panasonic, Uber, Amazon, Tesla, Japan Display, average warming, cursive handwriting
Read more...A proposal for a revised terminology climate change opponents.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Swalwell, Yang, IA, ME, ISO, DSA, Amazon, Uber, Republicans and climate, New Orleans levees, clean water rule, Sanders on insurance companies, health CEO pay, PNHP, oxytocin and fairness, aging and ironic action, Katie Bouman
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