Deep Structures of the Cultural Marxism myth

That is the tile of an article by Sandwichman which is easy to digest ( get it!).

Can I suggest you read all the links and Barkley Rosser's comment.

The Blogosphere can be a very educative place.

More on the Citizenship debacle

Graeme Orr assists us all in understanding the current debacle on citizenship ( and pecuniary interest). Here is Richard Ackland
As I said yesterday I think Section 44 of the Constitution should be changed but I find that highly improbable given the history of referendums in Australia.
On a related topic It is clear now the government is in deep decline. The idea of a conspiracy is laughable as it proved yesterday.It shows that the Government's leadership group is either out of touch or bordering on delusional. It also provoked an international incident.
This exacerbates the trend that was shown when Joyce was allowed to continue as Deputy Prime Minister in complete contrast to Canavan.
They are fast becoming a shambles. Having Turnbull doing Abbott impressions is not a good look. Abbott was an embarrassment. Turnbull could become so as well if he keeps this up.

One more thing. Even if you do not like Tony Burke, and I do not like him, he is super impressive in Parliament.

Fancy the Greens having more integrity than other parties

I would have never thought the Greens of all parties would have more integrity than other parties but in the recent furore concerning dual citizenship they have shown this is the case.
Both Green Senators immediately resigned when they realised they were dual citizens as they should have.
HOWEVER the other three 'clowns' have been shown up as people without any scruples at all. Obfuscation, dissembling, lying  and outright hypocrisy have been to the fore.

If one wishes to be a politician then in most parties you are told to examine whether you hold dual citizenship or not. If you are born in another country or either of your parents have been then you clearly should make some enquiries.
Clearly in three cases this was not done. (I might add the very idea of one's  mother getting you citizenship and not telling you is a woeful excuse!)

The Government is being shown up for sheer hypocrites. After essentially sneering at the Greens when it occurred to their two senators and saying it was correct they resign. They then said Canavan only needed to resign from the Ministry and not vote in the Senate BUT somehow this does not apply to Joyce! Huh?
If the Government has legal advice that shows Joyce position is legal then that advice should be made public.

Yes this part of the Constitution is silly however changing it is very problematic and ensuring you are eligible to be a candidate is not that hard.

Migration and Terror

This is the title of a very good article by messrs  Dreher, Gassebner and Schaudt ( who looks somewhat like Kenneth Branagh.)

Let me take their entire summary which says 'Stricter immigration and visa policies are a common reaction to terrorist attacks. This column uses historical data from 20 OECD countries to show that while the number of terror attacks increased with the number of foreigners living in a host country, migrants were not more likely to become terrorists than the locals of the country in which they were living. The results also show that bans on Muslim immigration would be more likely to increase the risk of terror than make the domestic population safer.'

Not just very good but essential reading

Around the Traps 11/8/17

It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie.Oy,Oy,Oy

• Michael Brown on another-attack-on-the-bureau-but-top-politicians-have-stopped-listening-to-climate-change-denial
• Roger Shanahan on some-lessons-foiled-sydney-terror-plot
• Ross Gittins on higher-employment-our-payoff-for-avoiding-recession , why-electricity-prices-are-high-and-going-higher , the-way-wages-are-set-is-changing
• Caron Beaton-Wells on cartel-case-shows-not-all-corporate-misbehaviour-goes-unpunished
• Greg Jericho on why-economic-anxiety-doesnt-explain-one-nation-and-the-far-rights-return
• Troy Barry and Ishita Chetterjee on the-nbn-needs-subsidies-if-we-all-want-to-benefit-from-it
• Roy Hay on grumbles-over-governance-threaten-to-disrupt-footballs-growth-in-australia
• Sangeetha Pillai on explainer-how-do-australias-proposed-citizenship-laws-compare-internationally
• Elizabeth Sheedy and Le Zhang on why-bankers-so-often-fail-to-comply-with-policies-and-regulations
• Croaking Cassandra on reading-a-nz-economist-supporting-large-scale-immigration , consistent-to-the-end-sadly , consistent-to-the-end-sadly , three-governors-and-monetary-policy , lvrs-interest-rates-and-so-on
• John Quiggin on alternatives-to-adani-2
• David Blowers on new-rules-for-retailers-but-dont-sit-there-waiting-for-your-electricity-bill-to-go-down
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-that-feeling-you-get-when-the-economy-cant-be-explained-by-economic-models
• Paul Kildea on using-the-abs-to-conduct-a-same-sex-marriage-poll-is-legally-shaky-and-lacks-legitimacy
• The kouk on rba-all-talk-and-no-action

Northern America

• Macromania on a-monetary-fiscal-theory-of-inflation
• Mark Thoma gives us Tim Duy on fed-watch-july-employment-recap , fed-watch-multiple-jobholders-are-not-a-weak-spot-in-the-employment-report
• Mark Thoma gives us Kruggers on whats-next-for-progressives
• Calculated Risk on prime-working-age-population-near-2007-peak, key-measures-show-inflation-mostly-below-2%-in-July
• Kruggers on how-bad-will-it-be-if-we-hit-the-debt-ceiling
• Carola Binder on labor-market-conditions-index-discontinued
• Menzie Chinn on whatthe-problem-with-low-inflation, asset-prices-and-economic-policy-uncertainty-post-election, whats-the-dead-weight-loss-of-a-consumption-tax-when-externalities-are-present
• Brad De Long on must-read-is-audit-the-fed-like-creating-the-cbo-or-like-trying-to-destroy-the-cbo-does-the-federal-reserve-need-more
• Crispin Rovere on what-trump-has-done-right
• Regulatory Review on wong-occupational-licenses-prison-poverty Thanks Mark
• The Conversable economist on the-us-fiscal-outlook

Europe

• Long and Variable on brexit-connundrum-is-not-incompetence
• Johnathan Portes on brexit-opinions-remain-brexiteer-bull-bs-leave-eu-new-york-times-jenni-russell-daniel-hannan Thanks Brad
• Daniel Woker on the-problem-of-channelling-churchill
• Bank Underground on your-country-needs-funds-the-extraordinary-story-of-britains-early-efforts-to-finance-the-first-world-war Thanks Mark
• Economic Principals on Politics V Commerce in russia Thanks Mark
• Keith Walsh on analysis-of-low-pay-sectors
• Barry Eichengreen on economists-right-about-brexit-impact Thanks Mark

Asia

• Vivienne Chow on when-border-not-border-hong-kong
• Lindsay Maizland on israel-al-jazeera-ban-journalists
• Yasmeen Serhan on the-countries-closing-ranks-on-al-jazeera
• Greg Earl on abenomics-loses-some-its-razzle-dazzle
• Pal Nyiri on contradictory-world-chinese-journalism
• Sam Roggeveen on north-korea
• Greg Wright on china-is-the-key-to-avoiding-nuclear-fire-and-fury-in-north-korea
• Virginie Grzelczk on trumps-threat-of-fire-and-fury-is-a-gift-to-north-koreas-propaganda-machine
• Genevieve  Hohen on fire-and-fury-trumps-impulsive-rhetoric-on-north-korea-threatens-the-region
• Chatiege Bajpaee on growing-extremism-source-strategic-instability-asia
• Zeeshan Aleem and Alex Ward on north-korea-guam-trump
• Sean Illing on china-north-korea-donald-trump-xi-jinping-kim-jong-un
• Robin Wright on the-way-out-of-trumps-ad-lib-war-with-north-korea
• Stephen Casey on korea-trump-nuclear-bluster-has-just-one-precedent

Wonk

• Mainly Macro on the-medias-influence , real-wages-are-mainly-macro-issue , the-politics-of-lying
• Stumbling and Mumbling on choice-in-economics, my-socialism, entrepreneurial-marxism
• Nick Rowe on upward-sloping-demand-curves-for-labour-and-housing
• Roger Farmer on the marriage of psychology and multiple equilibria in economics 
• Cecchetti and Schoenholtz on looking-back-the-financial-crisis-began-10-years-ago-this-week Thanks Mark
• The Conversable economist on negative-interest-rates-evidence-and-practicalities , william-playfair-inventor-of-bar-graph-line-graph-and-pie-chart , nafta-in-multipolar-world-economy
• Narayana Kocherlakota on maybe-central-banks-are-too-independent Thanks Mark
• Brad De Long on anti-globalization-socialism-of-fools, should-read-a-well-argued-smackdown-from-the-smart-dean-baker-dean-baker-opposition-to-trade-deals-brad-delong
• Coppolla comment on a-maths-lesson-for-journalists
• Benjamin Friedman on the-search-for-new-assumptions Thanks Mark
• Noah Smith on markets-don-t-work-for-everything
• Roger Farmer on what-is-keynesian-search-theory

General

• Understanding Society on the-guardian-drops-ball, time-for-critical-realist-epistemology
• The Conversable economist on fighting-colony-collapse-disorder-how-the-beekeepers-make-more-bees
• Tim Harford on fantasy-gaming-can-be-better-than-reality
• Christofer Clemente and Peter Bishop on when-dinosaurs-walked-the-earth-they-moved-like-modern-birds
• Tamara Davis on what-a-new-map-of-the-universe-tells-us-about-dark-matter

Climate

• Arctic Sea Ice on piomas-august-2017
• moyhu on july-global-surface-temperature-up-011
• and Then Theres Physics on no-pressure-alone-does-not-define-surface-temperatures , kevin-anderson-how-numbers-reveal-another-reality
• Peter Sinclair on ag-department-you-cant-say-climate-change
• Jon Christensen on climate-gloom-and-doom-bring-it-on-but-we-need-stories-about-taking-action-too

Andrew Gelman (mainly statistics)

• this finding did not reach statistical significance
• wolfram-on-golomb
• what readings should be included
• irwin-shaw-john-updike-others
• lack of openess
• bigshot-statistician-keeps-publishing-papers-errors-anything-can-get-stop
• consider-seniority-authors-criticizing-published-work
• statschat on millennials-and-their-pink-wine
• Eran Raviv on visualizing-tail-risk
• John Cook on random-walk-on-quaternions
• Kaiser Fung on a-call-for-less-automation-more-transparency-in-digital-advertising
• Junk Charts on starstruck-and-doubled-over-losing-poise-over-indian-charts

Genial Dave Giles ( econometrics)

• No Hesitations on commodity-connectedness
• Econometric Sense on confidence-intervals-fad-or-fashion
• Eviews on dumitrescu-hurlin-panel-granger-causility-tests

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• summer-frivolity
• its-political-correctness-gone-profitable
• must-read

Vox Wonk

• globalisation-and-us-labour-markets
• post-crisis-regulation-and-ceo-bonuses 
• job-related-mobility-and-plant-performance-sweden
• investing-roads-versus-schools
• portfolio-rebalancing-effects-ecbs-asset-purchase-programme
• trilemma-redux-evidence-emerging-market-economies
• what-economists-study-guide-curious
• migration-and-terror

North Korea

After Trump's stupid comments North Korea is in the news.
My view is examine what people in Seoul are doing to see if there is a threat or not.


In the meantime read:

• Alex Ward
• Zeeshan Aleem
• Eliot Cohen
• Uri Freidman
• Sam Roggeveen
• John Cassidy
• Greg Wright
• Virginie Grzelkczk
• Genevieve Hohen
• Zeeshan Aleem and Alex Ward 
• Sean Illing
• Robin Wright
• Stephen Casey 

Choice and Economics

Choice is an essential ingredient to economics and thus for capitalism to work properly.

Chris Dillow a thoughtful communist ( yes I know that is an oxymoron but he does describe as a communist. Me thinks he is more a social democrat?) elaborates on choice and economics.
Highly interesting and enjoyable.

As ca bonus and now for something completely different from Chris fiscal-policy-with-a-flat-phillips-curve