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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2019
Today's Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg terminal gaffe, Harris, Sanders, Harry Reid, impeachment, Durham report a damp squib?, employment situation, electric vehicles, Apple, the startup Away, suburban buses, Sunrise Movement, care work, domesticated humans, the cortex
US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
A proposed provision in the so-called "NAFTA 2.0" to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.
Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration
Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2019
Today's Water Cooler: WTO dispute resolution, digital services, Huawei, 2000 v. 2019, Biden's bus, Buttigieg, Iowa caucus, impeachment witness statements, VSAP, Wells Fargo, UPS, Google, private equity, corals, climate polling, health insurance, Maxwell's equations, generationsd
‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.
On a docu-drama that recounts the first major suit against toxic "forever chemicals" and what's being done about them now.
The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week's new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2019
Today's Water Cooler: Impeachment v. trade bill, France v. US, US v. China, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Jewish-Americans, Stacey Abrams, employment, manufacturing, services, shipping, potatoes, another IoT debacle, P4HCAF, prison staffing, slavery, the connectome, the Dead
