Around the Traps 28/8/26

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Michelle Grattan on israeli-ambassador-suggests-former-defence-chief-binskin-return-to-israel-to-pursue-frankcom-decision
• Jennifer Lacy-Nichols on australias-lobbying-rules-ignore-most-lobbyists-its-time-for-an-overhaul
• Bernard Doherty on who-are-the-brethren-and-what-do-they-believe-in 
• Laura Edwards et al on how-well-do-covid-antivirals-actually-work-not-as-well-as-we-thought
• Graham Wild on airport-runway-collisions-and-near-misses-are-happening-more-frequently-22-years-of-data-show
• Steve Georgakis on aussie-players-are-smashing-transfer-records-does-this-benefit-or-harm-australian-soccer
• Mark the Graph on qe-and-measured-natural-rate
• Melissa Davey on private-health-insurance-rebate-65-and-over 
• Greg Jericho on ai-boom-noisy-energy-hungry-datacentres-construction-economy 
• Shane Wright on this-dodgy-60b-deal-reeks-now-it-s-being-buried-in-pure-bulldust 
• Matteo Vergani on having-heard-mountains-of-evidence-the-antisemitism-royal-commission-now-faces-a-huge-challenge 
• John Hawkins on inflation-eases-less-than-expected-making-another-interest-rate-hike-more-likely
• Chris Murphy on the-pm-has-ruled-out-changing-was-gst-deal-but-theres-another-option-to-consider

OZ Climate

• not-a-bunch-of-yokels-armidale-mayor-lays-down-no-water-no-rez-demands-as-region-turns-dry
  
• like-a-fire-drill-for-the-grid-rooftop-solar-systems-to-be-switched-off-to-test-backstop-system
  
• solar-sharer-has-become-the-solar-shocker-with-the-costliest-of-retail-offers
  
• new-renewables-and-batteries-improve-grid-reliability-outlook-but-more-needs-to-get-built-on-time-aemo-says
  
• a-trojan-horse-for-communism-more-big-batteries-head-for-review-as-familiar-long-distance-objectors-pile-in-again
  
• linking-electricity-and-safeguards-could-make-wind-projects-viable-and-oblige-gentailers-to-actually-do-something
  
• bit-of-a-bloodbath-big-batteries-feel-the-pinch-of-coal-plant-extensions-and-household-battery-boom
  
• batteries-are-quickly-turning-gas-into-a-costly-sometimes-fuel-for-electricity-so-why-build-more
  
• intimidation-and-bullying-as-some-anti-wind-farmers-stage-a-fightback-others-are-counting-the-cost
  
• the-dirty-word-missing-from-the-debate-over-how-to-power-the-data-centre-boom
  
• cheaper-home-batteries-is-not-a-story-of-risk-ignored-it-is-one-of-risk-understood
  
• the-nems-first-solar-battery-hybrid-is-sending-power-to-the-grid-at-10pm-and-helping-reshape-the-energy-game
  
• after-anthony-albaneses-fold-on-data-centres-where-might-chris-bowen-be-curtailed-next
  
• Kevin Trenberth on how-will-this-years-record-breaking-el-nino-affect-nz-and-the-world-5-things-to-know
• Zoe Bainbridge and Rebecca Bartley on we-finally-have-some-encouraging-news-on-great-barrier-reef-water-quality
• Petra Stock on solar-sharer-energy-scheme-australia-three-free-hours-power-daily-more-expensive
• Ehsan Noroozinejad on australias-backdown-on-data-centres-allows-them-to-use-energy-from-coal-and-gas-heres-what-that-means

Northern America

• institutional economics on scott-bessent-and-financial-repression
• Kruggers on jared-bernstein-on-debt , debt-and-tax-cuts , the-moose-that-roared , losing-the-iran-war-the-economic , der-untergang , biden-derangement-syndrome
• Bryan Walsh on america-murder-rate-lowest-70-years 
• David Frum on why-us-canada-trade-talks-fell-apart
• noahpinion on are-we-watching-the-us-go-bankrupt , what-if-our-biggest-problems-arent-economic
• Tyler Cowen on more-evidence-on-the-effects-of-recent-tariffs
• Michael Dreeben on when-the-president-does-it 
• Hugh White on american-revolution-2-0-how-trump-has-changed-the-us-and-why-it-was-powerless-to-stop-him , trump-didn-t-cause-america-s-retreat-from-asia-he-s-the-symptom
• new deal democrat on the-latest-on-the-inflationary-expansion-of-2026-a-k-a-guns-butter-2 
• Cameron Peters on us-canada-trade-war-tariffs-trump-carney
• John Cassidy on the-humbling-of-scott-bessent 
• Bruce Schwartz et al on regular-special-grand-jury-powers
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-lisa-cook-trump-federal-reserve
• Mark the Graph on us-bonds-crisis
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-the-u-s-household-income-cycle-and-the-motio-rule 
• Eric Van Rhythoven on mark-carneys-defiance-canada-shows-the-world-how-to-respond-to-donald-trumps-threats
• Sarah Herschander on dolly-parton-philanthropy 
• Mark Danner on trumps-constitutional-dictatorship-regime-change-haberman-swan
• Bill McKibben on adam-hamilton-and-taking-back-religion-from-the-right 
• noahpinion on the-death-of-market-street 
• the conversable economist on is-us-government-debt-getting-riskier
• Lisa Needham on supreme-court-mail-voting-ballroom
• Harry Litman on the-other-side-of-dojs-corruption
• Brad De Long on nvidia-earnings-chart-of-the-day , rosspost-justin-wolfers-good-news-there-is-already-a-us/canada-trade-deal
• Jeet Heer on natalie-harp-trump-relationship-cult
• Adam Keith and Nina Moraitou-Politizi on rubio-wants-help-dismantling-icc

Europe

• Tyler Cowen on has-the-european-turnaround-finally-arrived , green-shoots-for-the-uk
• Timothy Ryback on nationalist-german-jews-max-naumann-hitler
• mainly macro on media-regulation-is-partly-about-protecting-individuals
• Doug Muir on why-ceuta-is-european-and-what-came-of-it

Asia

• Adam Farquhar on why-gaza-peace-deals-keep-unravelling
• Shiori Shakuto on what-sanae-takaichis-popularity-among-women-says-about-gender-equality-in-japan
• Mark Beeson on the-uncomfortable-success-of-china-s-climate-autocracy 
• Robert Kagan on iran-middle-east-power 
• Seon-Hyon Lee on trump-s-57-nukes-and-the-hollowing-out-of-north-korean-denuclearisation
• Martin Kear on israel-is-cementing-its-control-over-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem-while-the-world-is-distracted
• Jason Wilson on fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda 
• Taha Rezaei and Mark Maslin on nepal-tibet-floods-when-disaster-strikes-before-communities-recover-from-previous-climate-extremes-crisis-escalates 
• Ligin Joseph on a-super-el-nino-could-make-indias-monsoon-drier-yet-more-dangerous
• Ray Wills and Peter Newman on the-deadly-disease-blinding-the-west-to-who-is-winning-the-energy-transition
• Levan Tielidze on tsunami-of-dirt-what-caused-nepals-deadly-glacial-flood

Wonk

• Sam Kriss on the-carrion-eaters Thanks Nick
• Nils Gilman on the-goods-we-agreed-to-call-inputs Thanks Nick
• Joshua Gans on its-time-for-some-game-theory Thanks Nick
• Dean Ashendon on what-michael-young-actually-said Thanks Nick
• Rob Nicholls on 29-us-states-are-suing-meta-what-might-it-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-world
• Mark the Graph on yes-i-use-ai , weekly-energy-update
• Tim Harford on explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten 
• the conversable economist on even-sand-isnt-infinite , secular-stagnation-and-wealth-inequality-antecedents-and-lessons
• Brad De Long on the-white-collar-canaries-in-the-AI-job-loss-coal-mine
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-when-does-monetary-tightening-deflate-a-stock-market-bubble 
• Fan Yang on an-ai-job-boom-heres-what-the-tedious-temporary-work-in-data-labelling-is-actually-like
• Alex Tabarrok on democracy-and-caeserism

General

• Toby Davidson on australian-poetry-classics-francis-webb-the-20th-centurys-most-unjustly-neglected-poet-is-our-best-kept-literary-secret
• Helen Adam on beyond-harry-potter-five-books-you-can-enjoy-together-as-a-whole-family

Climate

• Phillip Oldfield and William Craft on were-building-a-new-york-sized-city-every-month-thats-worrying-for-our-climate 
• Damian Carrington on worlds-oceans-hit-hottest-temperature-on-record-in-august 
• Frisa Ginting and Dian Fiantis on borneo-forest-fires-spike-again-why-el-nino-isnt-the-sole-culprit
• David Appell on 4%-of-oregon-has-burned-this-year-so-far 
• skeptical science on ClimateAdam-emissions-are-flatlining-why-is-co2-rising-record-speed, fact-brief-windco2
• Bethany Dawson et al on climate-change-may-halve-omega-3-fatty-acids-in-fish-and-the-organisms-they-eat
• Nikolai Drahos on the-next-phase-of-global-methane-policy
• Benji Jones on coral-reef-climate-change-restoration-palau

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• this-is-one-of-the-worst-scientific-papers-ive-ever-seen
  
• failing-upward-norwegian-style
  
• to-the-three-people-who-sent-me-chatbot-emails-today
  
• head-to-head-on-125-st-the-jamaican-beef-patty-battle
  
• journal-of-statistics-and-data-science-in-sports
  
• head-to-head-on-125-st-the-jamaican-beef-patty-battle 
  
• journal-of-statistics-and-data-science-in-sports
  
• bayesian-workflow-free-pdf 
  
• survey-statistics-more-on-synthmargins-and-bayes-raking
  
• do
  
• professor authored 258 papers in 2026
• the-incredible-disappearing-ssrn-page
  
• Kaiser Fung on if-you-must-label-people

Dianne Coyle (quirky + book reviews)

• Toril Moi on the-adulteress-wife Thanks Nick
• Tyler Cowen on that-was-then-this-is-now

Vox Wonk

• how-early-academic-rank-shapes-high-school-choices-and-admissions 
  
• small-and-stuck-why-european-firms-cant-scale 
  
• why-more-information-can-make-macroeconomic-expectations-less-accurate-global 
  
• why-europe-needs-eurobonds 
  
• digitalisation-and-credit-markets-evidence-einvoicing 
  
• when-trade-sanctions-increase-targets-trade 
  
• competition-or-collusion-entry-decisions-swedish-pharmaceutical-market 
  
• anatomy-supervisory-failure 
  
• inflation-rate-fell-many-workers-pay-cheques-did-not-keep 
  
• inflation-reduction-acts-regional-incentives-promoted-green-investment-did-not-create
  

Dolly Parton

 I should have written this yesterday.

I loathe country and western music so I was no fan of hers. She had a poor voice and a very limited vocal range. This was never more apparent than on her most famous song . Whenever she attempted to sing it she killed the song but Whitney Houston  sang it she hit it out of the park!!  ( it made her $20m) I should add her voice limitations never were a problem as she was a country and western singer/songwriter

I remembering reading somewhere a long time ago she was a sex symbol. Big breasts ( which she heavily 'advertised') do not a sex symbol make. She had a poor body, terrible hairstyles and was frankly unattractive. This did not matter and neither should it have.

Okay so much for the negatives. Now for her large positives.

She was one hell of a businesswoman. She left around 600 million. She was one of 11 children in a family so poor that when she was born her parents paid the doctor with food as they had no money. She thus never forgot her roots.

She was also a philanthropist of high distinction and had no problem in giving money to causes she valued from her fortune. Making more money was not of top of her list.

She wrote a lot of songs but for the love of it never to get more money. If that came then she was blessed if not she still liked the song.

She also married her high school sweetheart and was still married to him when he died.

It is unusual for a person to die and everyone has a good word about them. That is the greatest tribute you could give her!

The wars in Ukraine and Iran

 Ukraine learnt very quickly not to use patriot missiles against drones. The US military clearly has not in the middle east. It has wasted many patriot and tomahawk missiles. Why is this? My guess is two reasons.

1. Hegeth sacking various top military leaders
2. The US  political disdain for Ukraine. They simply do not believe there is anything to learn from that war.

It is immediately apparent that the problem is the political leadership at the Defence department. Hesgeth has been an out and out failure. He clearly does not have a strategic brain in his body. It was his job to advise Trump of the possible problems and he did not.

He attempted a shock and awe effort to beat Iran and it backfired badly. Iran is clearly the big country in the middle east. US allies nol onger are relying on the US for protection they are turning to Ukraine who successfully use drones against drones. They also do not want any escalation as they believe Iran could destroy a large part of their industry.

Another thing I thin a lot of people are missing is that both Russia and China would be egging Iran on (not that it would take much egging) to take a hard line thereby using a lot more missiles. 

It is hard to see any settlement until after the mid-terms. This is merely a jimmy carter redux.

It is hard to see any peace in Ukraine simply because Putin cannot afford one politically. It is victory or death. Yet he cannot win but he  lives on in hope. Think about this. Ukraine produce a lot more drones than Russia and use them much more strategically. They also recognise Putin's bluster now for for what it is.

Can I add I hope Ukraine do not fall for the Hitler gambit. He had the UK on its knees and then changed the bombing to london. Russia is deliberately targeting Ukraine's population. Ukraine should not attempt this but continue its present destruction of russian industry particularly oil. It is paying off bigtime.

Immigration

 It appears a number of people want immigration to be curtailed. The problem is not the figure some people want but HOW to get there.

Andrew Bragg came up with a figure for net overseas migration of  180,000. He did not not say how he would get to that figure but said it would have a 'modest' effect on the university sector.

Pauline Hanson has confirmed that one nation would reduce it to 130,000 but that back packers and the like needed for agriculture would be exempt.

Cutting immigration down to the above levels would hit :

• back packers and the like who work in agriculture
• skilled labour for housing, manufacturing etc
• Family reunions
• Universities
• The federal budget

Now if you exempt agriculture from immigration cuts it therefore means you are going to cut larger in other areas.

You will have noticed various spokesmen (yeah they are mostly men) for employers associations saying quite loudly they need skilled immigrants for businesses as that labour simply is not avaalible locally.

Family reunions would probably be the first target as it has less economic impact and affects less people who vote!

Universities would be hit bigtime as foreign students is a large revenue earner for them. There would be need for at least some, if not significant, boost to universities funding from the federal government.

The federal budget would be hit by several billion dollars.

Thus what do we have. Wages would increase as highly skilled immigrants are reduced. you also need large spending cuts and/or large increases in taxation or a blow-out in the deficit.

Until we hear HOW immigration is to be cut to levels below 200,000 then I would suggest the people have no idea of what they are talking about!

The Swans imbroglio

 It seems all week we have been hammered by the disgrace of the 6 swan players who went out drinking until the early hours of sunday morning ( after their match) and invited some women back to their hotel. One of the women was sexually touched.

Herein lies the problem of the modern secular society. You can have sex with anyone you want provided there is consent. therein lies the problem. What is consent.? It is a very hard question for society to answer. Is yes yes? Is no really yes? Do you have to verbalise it? Does it apply to marriage and if so what is the point of marriage?

One final point. why do people complain about getting burnt when they are so close to the fire. In this case why would any woman go back to the hotel with the men at such an hour?

In this case if the players were not drunk they were still 'liquored up'. I would have to ask why and again why did they invite the women back to the hotel? My guess is it was not to have a cup of tea. I believe most have girlfriends so were they wanting to cheat on them?

Now since I believe only a husband and wife should have sex I simply do not understand what is going on here. Secular society is all over the place on this.

Also playing professional sport and drinking after the game has a bad history. Again I do not understand the need to get drunk into the wee hours after a game.

Society has a problem here but als no answer

the origins of Covid

 Mehdi Hasan does a great interview with a pro-lableak person and a pro-wuhan markets person.

It is a really interesting view and very informative as well as being civilised!!

Around the Traps 21/8/26

It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Nicholas Gruen on academia-from-inefficient-effectiveness-to-efficient-ineffectiveness 
• Caroline Riches on how-we-can-avoid-interest-rate-rises-and-boost-our-savings-instead Thanks Nick
• Peter Martin on home-truths-about-tax-with-a-nod-to-tom-petty Thanks Nick
• Robert Breunig on a-costly-mistake-new-review-finds-giving-wa-billions-in-extra-gst-was-unfair-to-other-states
• Mona Nikkidehaghani on with-ndis-changes-set-to-pass-heres-who-bears-the-cost-of-making-it-sustainable
• Antony Green on why-australia-doesnt-have-novelty-candidates-like-count-binface
• Patrick Commins on why-rightwing-critics-are-wrong-to-say-the-australian-super-system-is-broken
• Rick Sarre on will-other-states-follow-nsw-into-the-national-gun-buy-back-scheme-and-will-it-make-any-difference
• Ross Gittins on it-s-my-job-to-raise-a-topic-which-neither-side-of-politics-will-mention
• Kate Griffiths on long-awaited-gambling-reform-bill-is-an-improvement-but-does-not-go-nearly-far-enough-to-reduce-harm
• Luca Ittimani and Jonathan Barrett on how-high-will-rents-really-rise-labor-property-tax-reforms 
• Greg Jericho on australias-drop-in-real-wages-is-a-disaster-but-the-profits-of-major-corporations-are-doing-just-fine 
• Sassan Thorp and Scott Donald on when-can-you-access-your-super-early-a-finance-and-a-legal-expert-explain 
• Becky Freeman et al on one-nation-wants-to-cut-the-tobacco-tax-would-that-curb-the-illicit-cigarette-market
• Heather Robinson on how-to-sell-a-genocide-has-been-removed-from-a-library-near-bondi-but-libraries-represent-freedom-of-thought
• Katharina Belt on fertiliser-prices-and-shortages-are-hamstringing-our-farmers-but-we-have-other-options
• Aruna Sathanapathy on one-year-isnt-enough-why-the-government-needs-to-keep-up-the-pace-of-economic-reform
• Antony Green on one-nation-and-its-elected-mps
• Geoffrey Robertson on zomi-frankcom-killing-death-israel-idf

OZ climate

• its-a-commercial-system-and-it-has-a-customer-sodium-ion-battery-sale-hailed-as-a-first-for-australia
  
• australias-biggest-battery-project-slashes-footprint-by-20-pct-as-it-mulls-multi-gigawatt-hour-extension
  
• we-want-more-batteries-nsw-confirms-state-rebate-will-slash-costs-by-up-to-40-pct-on-systems-up-to-30-mwh
  
• were-trying-to-win-a-drag-race-with-the-handbrake-on-here-are-three-reforms-to-deliver-the-energy-transition 
  
• no-ray-hadley-the-collapse-of-zen-does-not-mean-renewables-have-failed-nor-that-more-coal-will-be-burned
  
• the-2-5-billion-wind-project-getting-ready-for-take-off-but-what-about-the-crashed-cessna
  
• its-literally-life-changing-for-us-the-drought-stricken-farmers-looking-to-wind-and-solar-to-secure-their-future
  
• australias-biggest-energy-consumers-are-being-lined-up-to-break-the-wind-drought-in-its-most-coal-dependent-state
  
• what-federal-and-state-rebate-changes-mean-for-ci-solar-and-battery-storage-in-8-charts
  
• significant-shift-batteries-are-capping-electricity-prices-and-helping-to-bust-the-energy-market-cartel
  
• they-are-not-locked-in-anti-renewables-meeting-targets-immigrant-workers-amid-litany-of-wild-claims
  
• do-wind-turbines-make-droughts-worse-a-new-study-says-they-do-not
• prices-have-doubled-farmers-turn-to-wind-and-solar-to-make-fertiliser-and-change-conversation-about-renewables
  
• gas-is-getting-left-behind-as-solar-charghttps://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-is-getting-left-behind-as-solar-charged-batteries-step-in-to-the-breach/ed-batteries-step-in-to-the-breach
  
• Nick Toscano on renewables-are-slashing-power-prices-but-energy-chiefs-fear-it-may-not-last

Northern America

• Brad De Long on the-fed-chair-who-whispers
• Kruggers on vanessa-williamson-on-taxes-and-democracy , demography-deportations-and-the-trump-stall , the-misery-will-continue-until-morale-improves , a-new-level-of-trumpian-evil ,what-are-bond-markets-telling-us, the-case-against-bond-market-panic , scott-bessent-fails-to-gaslight-the-market
• Daniel Egbar on fauci-texts
• David Frum on trump-business-dark-money , democratic-primaries-left-dsa-trump
• Fred Kaplan on trump-south-korea-north-korea-kim-jong-un-iran-war
• Tom Nicholls on trump-iran-korea 
• John Cassidy on selling-fast-access-to-truth-social-posts-a-trump-grift-too-far 
• the conversable economist on welcoming-first-year-students-with-a-wake-up-call , trashed
• Astead Herndon on midterms-actually-electability-question-donald-trump-republicans 
• Marie-Rose Sheinerman on trump-name-on-everything
•  David Cole on close-calls-us-supreme-court-david-cole
• Rebecca Hamilton on trump-administrations-state-power-big-picture
• Jeet Heer on israel-lobby-clifton-lustick-middle-east-us-foreign-policy, trump-uss-lincoln-crisis
• Dylan Scott on data-centers-2026-election-texas-ohio-michigan

Europe

• Irani Skubii on russia-is-cutting-off-ukraines-grain-exports-again-threatening-a-critical-harvest-and-global-food-security
• Anna Nemtsova on russia-ukraine-drone-war-protest
• Joshua Hill on solar-stands-up-during-european-heatwaves-as-nuclear-and-fossil-fuels-stumble 
• mainly macro on signs-of-recovery-in-comparative-uk-economic-growth 
• Speranta Dimutru on ceuta-what-vitoria-would-tell-about-migration
• open mind on englands-hottest-summer
• Simon Schuster on ukraine-moscow-airports-ai-drones

Asia

• institutional economics on japan-as-poster-child-for-market-monetarism
• Donald Rothwell on the-hormuz-toll-iran-wants-and-trump-might-let-slide
• noahpinion on the-end-of-an-era-for-chinas-economy 
• Lynne O'Donnell on the-fragmentation-of-resistance-in-afghanistan 
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-undervaluation-of-asian-currencies
• Amin Saikal on the-taliban-has-brought-afghanistan-close-to-collapse-but-resistance-is-growing
• David Zhang on asia-is-rearming-fast-but-counting-the-wrong-kind-of-military-power 
• Virginie Grelczyk on north-korea-grows-stronger-as-south-korea-reckons-with-fading-us-support
• Ved Shinde on valley-of-flowers-the-dicey-dance-of-development-in-the-himalayas
• Shannon Bosch on can-the-israeli-military-be-trusted-to-investigate-itself-evidence-shows-genuine-accountability-is-rare
• Srijan Shukla on china-risk-returns-in-american-bond-markets

Wonk

• Mark the Graph on weekly-energy-update , privatisation-of-government-businesses-services-and-financing
• noahpinion on 23-low-regret-recommendations-for-AI-policy , economists-should-be-worried-about-birthrates
• Brad De Long on again-more-of-a-refining-crunch-than-a-crude-oil-crunch , the-global-bond-selloff-since-2020 , can-we-sell-equity-financing-of-the-data-centre-buildout-at-a-debt-price , bubble-watching-this-is-what-happens-in-a-time-of-distress
• Henry Yep on how-maps-harden-territorial-claims
• Ananya Rupanagunta on cuba-healthcare-collapse-energy-crisis
• the conversable economist on syntax-often-breaks-down-just-at-the-point-where-a-new-or-significant-meaning-is-beginning-to-break-out
• Chris Dillow on the-politics-of-cher 
• home and away on plane-spoken

General

• Sean Illing on you-cant-have-homer-nietzsche-and-jesus Thanks Nick
• the conversable economist on orwell-it-is-possible-to-be-a-normal-decent-person-and-yet-be-fully-alive
• Ceri Shipton et al on 4-000-year-old-rock-painting-in-indonesia-offers-clues-to-one-of-humanitys-greatest-migrations
• Sven Buder on galactic-archaeologists-find-stars-in-the-milky-way-came-from-another-galaxy-12-billion-years-ago
• Alex Tabarrok on why-arent-modernist-bridges-awful

Climate

• David Appell on climate-denial-killing-still-more-people
• Moyhu on july-global-surface-templs-up-0045-from-june
• Angus Dalton on polar-wildfires-scientists-warn-of-grass-spreading-across-parts-of-the-antarctic 
• Dennis Campbell on extreme-heat-more-dangerous-for-people-60-and-over-than-previously-thought
• Kirsten Zander and Stephen Garnett on extreme-heat-is-altering-when-where-and-how-we-travel-new-research
• skeptical science on raw-data-wrong-answers , new_research

Andrew Gelman (mostly stats)

• inbox-zero-bloglag-365
  
• how-can-america-be-so-miserable-when-its-so-rich
  
• he-wants-to-teach-frequentist-methods-to-engineering-students-with-a-strong-bayesian-background
  
• jamaican-me-crazy-yet-again
  
• modern-day-political-analysis-excellent-demonstrations-of-statistical-workflow-from-elliott-morris-nate-silver-and-eli-mckown-dawson
  
• survey-statistics-modeling-complex-contingency-tables
  
• update-on-a-regression-discontinuity-dispute-some-asynchronous-collaboration 
  
• wh 
  
• why-i-am-so-against-volunteering-in-academia-ecology-edition 
  
• we-couldnt-reproduce-their-findings-and-realized-that-it-was-all-driven-by-weird-data-from-uzbekistan
  
• my-answer-is-no 
  
• here-are-the-talks-from-stancon-2026
  
• the conversable economist on the-generalizability-problem-the-natural-field-experiments-answer
• Kaiser Fung on when-life-calls-for-causal-analysis

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews) 

• Tyler Cowen on that-was-then-this-is-now , what-ive-been-reading
• Joshua Black on paul-kellys-exceptional-history-charts-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-coalition-but-leaves-questions-unanswered
• econjeff on book-felony-review-by-randy-barnett
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Vox Wonk

• nine-centuries-cultural-change-and-productivity-ideas 
  
• macrofinance-meets-ai-evaluating-alignment-between-llms-and-economists 
  
• firms-slice-global-production-protect-their-knowhow 
  
• comparison-labour-force-participation-trends-euro-area-and-us 
  
• industrial-policy-complementary-markets-lessons-indias-4g-rollout 
  
• how-regulatory-risk-and-expropriation-threats-are-affecting-berlins-housing-market 
  
• europes-productivity-more-dynamic-aggregate-statistics-suggest 
  
• when-statistics-lie-using-satellite-data-track-russias-wartime-economy 
  
• anatomy-censorship-and-propaganda-what-russias-wikipedia-clone-reveals-about 
  
• ais-gains-are-large-and-rising-unevenly-shared