Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, trade agreements and labor, Buttigieg, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, RussiaGate, race relations, Democrats and the donor class, Trump staffers, jobless claims, inflation, AI, Apple, the Green New Deal, plastic, ocean noise, tourists, Delta uniforms, trigger warnings
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Gravel, Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Yang, “meeting needs,” identity politics, Democrats to ban free IRS tax filing, consumer price index, bitcoin, Tesla, WeWork, Facebook, Apple, urban farming, cashews, student loans and suicide, mobile homes, new black hole
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Boeing v. Airbus tariffs, Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, factory orders, small business optimism, employment, fracking, Walmart, Elon Musk v. the SEC, robocalls, Boeing 737, particulate pollution, soil, “The Wonderful Company,” Arnade, erisology, heart surgery
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders on open borders, Sanders and the Latinx vote, Warren, DSA, Stacey Abrams, copper, robot cars, Google and AI ethics, Amazon and writers, Boeing 737 orders, succulent plants, soil, slow journalism, identity politics, Tolkien, Japanese manhole covers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Sanders, Swalwell, Trump, Warren, Iowa DSA, ALEC, RussiaGate, Ray Dario on revolution, employment situation, Boeing, 5G, natural gas, the oceans, backyard chickens, Tibetan musical notation
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Ryan (new),O’Rourke and gentrification, Sanders, AOC, DCCC, Crosscheck, DSA in Chicago, employment situation, Tesla, robot cars, Boeing 737 MAX, global CO2 emissions, Green New Deal, pollinator-friendly solar projects, science and the slave trade, machine tools
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, politics is a little light because I spent too much time on Boeing. I’ll add a bit more shortly. –lambert UPDATE All done! Trade “Exclusive: China’s huge Airbus order padded by old or incomplete deals – sources” [Reuters]. “A landmark order from China for 300 Airbus jets signed during […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, reparations, durable goods, coincident indexes, bonds, private equity, Walgreens, Subway, Epic Games, startups, natural forests, climate action in Congress, loneliness, sex, coding, the singularity, dissonant music
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trump Michigan rally, Bill Weld, Stacey Abrams. AOC’s app, DSA dog caucus, retail sales, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Wow Air, Aramco, Sears, unicorns, Big Ag, soil microbes and carbon capture, invasive species, rice, bent cops, aggression, capitalism, vanity plates
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: It’s time for the annual Water Cooler fundraiser! Dig deep if you can, but only give what you can!
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Amazonia and soy, O’Rourke, Sanders, Yang, newspapers and polarization, reparations, GDP, manufacturing, employment, Barclay’s, Boeing 737, Amazon, Facebook, robocals, Android, Apple, Fukushima, Medicaid, reading for the OED, language in the brain, Gritty assaulted
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and 737, Sanders, AOC, moar RussiaGate, Ed Buck, international trade, bonds, Market Basket, bonds, natural gas, air pollution casualties, volcanic threats, health insurance horror stories, “Baby Ivies,” money, moralizing Gods, male birth control pill, early risers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, moar RussiaGate, housing, consumer confidence, manufacturing, WeWork, Boeing, Google game streaming, net neutrality, American corruption, debt and depression, Japanese seasons
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: More or less open thread on the Mueller investigation.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: National activity, manufacturing, 737 softwar fix, the Fed and inflation, recession signals, carbon markets, Missouri flooding, grazing lands and carbon capture, cliimate and disease, Mount Everest, kale, the Sacklers, Amazon strike, Uber/Lyft strike, Internet of Sh*t
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