Around the Traps 25/4/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Albert Palazzo on security-without-submarines-the-military-strategy-australia-should-pursue-instead-of-aukus
• David Walker on immigration-cuts-and-housing-prices-what-research-says-and-media-should-report
• croaking cassandra on a-bit-more-unpicking-of-rb-spending-and-the-funding-agreement , rb-spending-the-board-and-the-minister , fiscal-failure
• Ross Gittins on my-easter-sermon-how-we-can-trump-proof-our-society , our-democracys-not-working-well
• the tally room on whats the historical evidence for sophomore surge
• Stephen Grenville on cost-aukus-afterpay
• Ketan Joshi on duttons-weird-energy-claims-in-leaders-debate-show-hes-living-in-opposite-world
• Alex Russell et al on gambling-in-australia-how-bad-is-the-problem-who-gets-harmed-most-and-where-may-we-be-heading
• Alfie Chadwick and Libby Lester on these-3-climate-misinformation-campaigns-are-operating-during-the-election-run-up-heres-how-to-spot-them
• Colin Hawes on port-of-darwins-struggling-chinese-leaseholder-may-welcome-an-australian-buy-out
• Susanna Patton on facts-gone-missing-australia-s-debate-about-indonesia-russia-basing-deal
• Greg Jericho on australia-needs-more-than-hollow-words-about-a-fair-go-we-need-brave-policy-makers
• Peter Layton on australia-needs-bold-ideas-on-defence-the-coalitions-increased-spending-plan-falls-disappointingly-short
• Charles Livingstone on the-responsible-gambling-mantra-does-nothing-to-prevent-harm-it-probably-makes-things-worse
• Tim Buckley on coalitions-nuclear-gambit-will-cost-australia-trillions-and-permanently-gut-its-industry
• Jennifer Parker on why-aukus-remains-the-right-strategy-for-the-future-defence-of-australia
• Caroline Wang on if-australia-serious-about-becoming-renewable-energy-superpower-china-must-be-part

OZ climate

• more-gas-is-not-needed-in-push-for-high-renewables-but-we-need-to-get-cracking-with-wind-and-transmission
  
• south-australia-breaks-wind-output-record-for-first-time-in-two-years-as-new-projects-boost-capacity
  
• new-solar-farm-powers-up-in-coal-and-gas-centre-after-being-completed-seven-months-early
  
• commitment-to-nuclear-power-could-kill-off-most-of-australias-aluminium-industry-study-warns
  
• four-huge-wind-solar-and-battery-projects-granted-grid-access-but-capacity-trimmed-in-key-rez
  
• last-of-640-battery-packs-in-place-at-one-of-australias-biggest-storage-projects
  
• renewables-giant-says-australia-among-easiest-places-on-planet-to-be-green-and-competitive
  
• major-blooper-on-wind-output-has-stranded-some-of-australias-best-projects-with-no-grid-access
  
• last-of-three-giant-transformers-gets-craned-into-place-at-massive-state-backed-battery
  

Northern America

• Brad De Long on the-self-inflicted-slump , trump-vs-powell-vs-trump-vs-warsh , i-have-reached-my-limit
• Roger Berkowitz on something-has-happened-to-the-fabric-of-society Thanks Nick
• Mark Stern on sam-alito-dissent-supreme-court-emergency-deportation-false
• Kruggers on stop-in-the-name-of-trump, cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos , trump-is-a-virus
• Patrick Reis on hegseth-pentagon-trump-fired-logoff
• Frank Bowman on trump-forever-prison-el-salvador-cecot-crime
• noahopinion on the-pundits-dilemma , you-are-the-heir-to-something-greater-than-empire
• Karla Ostolaza on ice-using-tattoos-identify-gang-members-deportation-one-problem
• Radley Balko on trump-administration-authoritarianism-fear-deportations-threats
• Jerome Groopman on measles-gone-wild-booster-shots-adam-ratner
• Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman on the-president-of-brooklyn
• angry bear on whether-a-publication-is-partisan-when-it-comes-to-various-scientific-debates , abduction-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-is-not-about-politics
• institutional economics on wheres-kevin
• Jeet Heer on trump-chaos-weekend-at-bernies
• Steve Benen on its-discouraging-see-executive-producer-60-minutes-resign
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-how-to-forecast-a-recession
• Douglas Keith on trump-arrest-wisconsin-judge-kash-patel-bondi-danger
• Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern on aclu-abrego-garcia-trump-el-salvador-supreme-court

Europe

• Fred Kaplan on trump-russia-rubio-ukraine-putin-zelensky-iran , donald-trump-ukraine-russia-ceasefire-peace-plan
• Tom Nicholls on trump-ukraine-russia-deal

Asia

• Adam Simpson on thailands-fragile-democracy-takes-another-hit-with-arrest-of-us-academic
• Brian Braun on tariffs-triumph-vietnam-holds-key-us-trade-strategy
• Abhijnan Rej on terrorist-attack-marks-grim-kashmir-milestone
• Joshua Leifer on reoccupying-gaza

Wonk

• contraptions on terms-of-centaur-service Thanks Nick
• Konstantin Kisin on is-islam-a-religion-of-peace-lessons-from-Uzbekistan thanks Nick
• Kruggers on a-primer-on-financial-crises , trumps-cultural-revolution
• Tim Harford on how-to-cure-premature-enumeration
• Joel Hodge and Antonia Pizzey on pope-francis-has-died-aged-88-these-were-his-greatest-reforms-and-controversies
• Tyler Cowen on long-run-effects-of-trade-wars , the-macroeconomics-of-tariff-shocks
• Mark Beeson on hirschman-s-warning-forgotten-lessons-about-trump-s-trade-war
• Ved Shinde on t20-diplomacy-virtues-test-cricket-uncertain-times
• Tyler Cowen on we-need-more-elitism
• the conversable economist on interview-with-robert-barro-empirical-macroeconomics
• Sergi Basco on imf-world-economic-outlook-economic-uncertainty-is-now-higher-than-it-ever-was-during-covid
• Greg Earl on economic-diplomacy-trump-era-transcends-economics

General

• Daniel Reardon on twinkling-star-reveals-the-shocking-secrets-of-turbulent-plasma-in-our-cosmic-neighbourhood
• Dan Golding on since-its-very-conception-star-wars-has-been-political-now-andor-will-take-on-trump-2-0
• James Renwick on curious-kids-if-heat-rises-why-does-it-get-colder-in-the-mountains
• Craig Barker on when-rock-music-met-ancient-archeology-the-enduring-power-of-pink-floyd-live-at-pompeii
• Christopher Gaete et al on fossil-teeth-show-extinct-giant-kangaroos-spent-their-lives-close-to-home-and-perished-when-the-climate-changed

Climate

• David Appell on climate-sensitivity-from-paleoclimate
• open mind on early-20th-century-warming
• skeptical science on worse-than-current-policy-world , new_research_for_the_week

Andrew Gelman (mainly stats)

• for-15-years-tesla-stock-has-been-edging-down-during-the-day-and-shooting-up-overnight
  
• intergenerational-socioeconomic-mobility-over-time-for-different-ethnic-groups
  
• what-day-of-the-year-will-have-the-fewest-noninduced-births-difference-between-mathematical-and-statistical-reasoning
  
• the-error-reversal-heuristic-how-would-you-have-reacted-had-the-error-gone-in-the-opposite-direction
  
• the-difference-between-significant-and-not-significant-is-not-itself-statistically-significant-in-the-wild
  
• lasch
  
• the-well-meaning-but-useless-or-counterproductive-social-science-establishment
  

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• nuttin

Vox Wonk

• banks-historical-lessons-rethinking-credit
  
• russias-missing-payments
  
• who-supplies-and-demands-safe-assets-and-why-it-matters
  
• female-representation-and-talent-allocation-entrepreneurship
  
• place-prosperity-versus-people-prosperity-migration-and-intergenerational
  
• fisherian-debt-deinflation-channel-and-stock-returns
  
• resolving-non-performing-loans-and-zombie-firms-path-sustainable-growth-greece
  
• redirecting-chinese-exports-us-evidence-trade-deflection-first-us-china-trade-war