Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Beto v. Sanders, Taibbi on Sanders, bipartisanship, manufacturing, pending home sales, cobalt theft, holiday decor, Bitcoin crash, Amazon Prime, Facebook moderation, infrastructure, botany, income inequality, Roland Fryer, Downeast humor
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China and trade policy, Stacey Abrams, suburban voters, Obama and gerrymandering, jobless claims, consumer confidence, house prices, coincident indices, Foxconn, AI, the Farm Bureau and climate, Medicare for All, entomolody, SAD, Samuel Pepys
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
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Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Trade policy, 2020 Democrat debates, Mattis hagiography and reactions, Pelosi cripples Green New Deal, DSA and racism, GDP, personal income and outlays, durable goods, manufacturing, CLOs, Amazon, Uber, antibiotics, Xmas phishing, biological and artificial intelligence
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Brown, Beto, AOC, attacking “our democracy,” leading indicators, jobless claims, business outlook, Elon’s tunnel, Amtrak, Zuckerberg, Nissan, human extinction, de-growth, squillionaire vanity projects, hot peppers, Facebook tips
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Young presidential contenders, Beto, Sanders, Mueller, PAYGO, Michelle Obama and George Bush, current account, existing home sales, architectural billings, fish fraud, Elon Musk, scooters, National Parks, trees, mutual aid, quantum computing, radical mycology
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Presidential debates, Beto unready, Senate Intelligence Community reports, DNC data, fascism once more, housing starts, modesty in fashion, Tesla, Blue Apron, Bitcoin ATMs, corruption, tech dystopias, Mr. Market and the Fed, package seizures, ambient cruelty, Facebook
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Boeing in China, tariffs, Republican erosion in CA and PA, Ossoff lives, manufacturing, housing, shipping, banks pulling back, Texas v. United States, health care systems, vax, Xmas cheer, Yugoslavian brutalism, kludges
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Corn, soybeans, Sanders, Biden/Harris, Warren, Women’s March, CAP, industrial production, retail sales, business inventories, apparel, consumer credit, body brokers, Verizon debacle, Harvard invests in water, cost of illness, Proust, liberal arts, latrinalia, ant nests
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Aluminum tariffs good for economy, TWO, Sanders on Jamie Dimon, Julian Castro, Pelosi, RCV in Maine, jobless claims, imports and exports, oil, intersectionality and class, Walmart rant, student loans, warehouse code of conduct, anti-labor Jones Day, cash, Eric the fish
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Lighthizer on NAFTA, Biden trial balloons, Pelosi v. Trump v. Schumer, NC-09 election fraud, the Lochnerized First Amendment, consumer prices, business inflation expectations, real estate, Bitcoin, Tesla, corporate planning and climate, @Jack meditates, Fortnite
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China auto tariffs, Bloomberg 2020, Beto’s donors, producer price index, small business optimism, Amazon insider scams, trucking rates, supply chain for fabric, Uber’s robot car software, AI, hoarding scooters, Gilded Age, love and money, MAD Magazine
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Why Trump’s trade war is pushing China to become smarter and stronger, faster” [Hellenic Shipping News]. “The final communiqués at these lovefests must usually be written beforehand for anything to be agreed. Trump is the exception. He likes one-on-ones. He is a professional deal maker in a way that […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Biden, Beto, NC election theft, Democrat number crunchers, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Maersk, productivity, employment situation, manufacturing, services, trade, carbon and industry, Trump, and Diblasio, blogging, Tony Bourdain, hippies and vibes
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