Around the Traps 1/3/13

Here we are again. So these are the highlights as I see them.

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oy Oy Oy

• John Quiggin says ppps-take-a-long-time-to-die and that the-ipa-less-scruples-than-billy-hughes
• The Kouk looks at Mr Abbott's possible-little-blue-book and finds the myth-of-coalition-govts-howard-the-biggest-spender-of-all
• Harry Clarke is happy
• Via Peter Martin tony-abbott-you-need-to-balance-books and what-reserve-really-thinks-aussie-is
• Mumble on why  labor_always_gets_it_wrong and voters_dont_send_messages and hypothesising_kevin, late  but a beauty year_of_the_back_scratch1
• Kevin Bonham on 2001-final-frontier
• Ricardian Ambivalence looks at this-thing-called-confidence , how-much-capital expenditure 1 and how- much- capital- expenditure 2 and finally how- much-capital- expenditure 3. RA you are on fire!
• Nick Gruen  (the Australian David Glasner) talks about values based management

General

• Via Mark Thoma Republicans wasting money using the CBO
• Noah Smith on why-liberals-shouldnt-turn-against-immigration and  why-finance-has-always-been-more-profitable
• Calculated risk likes new home sales
• Richard Green  asks why-is-luxury-housing-market-recovering
• David Glasner writes a wonderful note on armen-alchian-the-economists-economist
• Macroblog on nature-abhors-an-output-gap
• Simon Wren-Lewis on monetary-union
• Nick Rowe on what-is-an-excess-demand-for-money
• Lord Keynes on uk-unemployment-18701999 and us-unemployment-graph-18691899. He is a goldmine on historical data
• Peter Dorman on fiscal-space-cadets
• Pro-growth liberal on is-us-fiscal-policy-near-tipping-point
• Barkely Rosser on only-6%-of-public-knows-deficit-is- declining  Hey ,only 30% of Aussies know that interest rates are lower now that when the Government took office. We are better at maths?
• Mark Thoma says austerity-is-already-here
• Brad de Long tells us of Ezra Klein  in 1)why-oh-why-cant-we-have-a-better-press-corps-bob-woodward-of-the-washington-post-writes-fishwrap-edition.html and then 2)bob-woodward-says-gene-sperling-threatened-me. Should insert Beverly Mann's take as well. Kruggers also writes ( I am old enough to remember when bob Woodward was a reporter!). I have to say Katesy has missed all of this but he always does.
• Jonathan Portes looks at immigration-and-uk-labour-market
• Frances Woolley on men-natures-second-sex  !!!!!!
• Late but nevermind. Barkely Rosser on will-wants-innumerate-gold-buggery 
• Vert very late but Aussie Ricardian ambivalence looks at the-us-non-inflation-problem yes he is good

Austerity in Europe

• via Mark Thoma we have Francesco Saraceno on its-the-denominator-stupid
• via Mark Thoma we have Antonio Fatas on the-euro-depression
• Paul Krugman on death-by-davos and euro-delusions and austerity-europe-2 and paul-de-grauwe-and-the-rehn-of-terror  ( Does Kruggers read around the traps as well?)
• Simon Wren-Lewis on the-final-verdict-on-george-osborne-as-chancellor
• Kevin O'Rourke on the-good-news-confidence-is-just-around-the-corner (irony button needed)
• John Fitzgerald on economic-assessment-of-the-euro-area
• Just in Kevin O'Rourke leads us tomark-mazower-on-the-eurozone-crisis
• Very late but worth every minute Simon Wren-Lewis where-austerity-really-rules

Sequestration in the US

• Via Calculated Risk e bernanke-sequester-could-lead-to-less-deficit reduction
• Econbrowser on approximate_geographical- impacts- of- sequestration and macroeconomic - impact
• not exactly here but Tim Duy know-your-fed-chairs
• Jared Bernstein with 1) austerity-that-would-make-a-european-policy-maker-proud 2)sequester-politics-hard-to-believe-but-theyre-getting-worse and 3)i-just-solved-the-sequester

Statistics (Well mostly actually all  Andrew Gelman)

• evaluating-the-impacts-of-welfare-reform
• life-in-the-c-suite-an-ugly-graph-and-an-unrelated-story
• f-f-f-fake-data
• correlation-of-1-too-good-to-be-true
• what-is-explanation
• thin-scientists-say-its-unhealthy-to-be-fat
• Just in different-modes-of-discourse/#more

Wonkish

• via Mark Thoma Owen Zidar on  fiscal-policy-and-mpc-heterogeneity
• via Mark Thoma the FRB of St Louis on Banks too big to fail
• Angry Bear on more-on-adaptive-inflation-expectations
• Lord Keynes on the-natural-rate-of-interest-in-abct  ( David Glasner what do YOU think?)
• Frances Woolley on labour supply
• well sort of, the wonderful Nicholas Gruen tell us election-against-appellate-double-jeopardy
• David Glasner on that-oh-so-elusive-natural-rate-of-interest 
• Simon Wren-Lewis on bean-on-nominal-gdp-targets

Vox Wonk

• helicopter-money
• imf-lending-and-banking-crises
• mutualisation-and-constitutionalisation
• another-look-ricardian-equivalence-case-european-union
• welfare-cost-lawlessness-evidence-somali-piracy
• wine-tasting-terroir-joke-and-or-are-wine-experts-incompetent  now this is important

Diet(?)

• This turned up in my referring sites 35-tips-for-great-and-healthy-living. It does look an interesting blog.