~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing deaths, Trump nostalgia, news from the encampments ~

After sending Yellen and Blinken to China to make threats, the Administration has imposed some strikingly weak sanctions

What Fed chair Powell said about rate hikes, no rate cuts, rate cuts, and the QT slowdown while getting rid of MBS entirely

A theory of crime, which while it has some explanatory power, weirdly omits white collar crime.

How the CIA evolved, or depending on your point of view, devolved into what it is today.