Around the Traps 10/5/13 Mother's Day Edition

It is Friday and so time for Around the traps.
I'm shocked. no-one has talked about the last episode of Castle coming up.don't people know what is important!

Very Important This edition is Niall Ferguson free.
Also note the highlighted items
Where people write on the same topic I have tried to group them together

I am busy over the weekend. Refereeing three games in a row on Saturday and then Mother's day on Sunday so I am unsure when I can update as of course I will have to.

Figures prove a lot of people look at Around the Traps and it merely shows how many quality articles are out there each week.



Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Robert Merkel on disabilitycare-a-colossal-political-achievement
• Mumble on dumb_things_in_politics, budget_next_week and beware_of_triumphalism and late ghost_of_latham
• The ubiquitous Ricardian Ambivalence asks does-a-rate-cut-make-sense,why-id-buy-aud-at-1-015-exports/, whos-winning-the-currency-wars and april-jobs-best-in-a-while and very late gross-flows-in-the-april-jobs-report
• Don Arthur writes on missing-in-action-nick-cater-and-the-failure-of-australias-conservative-intellectuals
• Gummo Trotksy examines the-corporatist-manifesto-i
• Harry Clarke says  gambling-on-horse-races-for-the-mugs and plain-packaging-take-a-look cough cough
• Brian Banisch on visas-below-the-rhetoric and climate-clippings-73
• The Kouk demolishes Judith-Sloan
• John Quiggin on decarbonising-australia and costello-again
• Grog's Gamut on rba-drops-cash-rate-to-2.75% and australia-unemployment-rate-down-to-5.5%
• Peter Martin on the-stubbonly-high-aussie-why-rba-cut and memories-keeping-interest-rates-low
• Ed Butler on budgetary-dissonance
• Matt Cowgill says when-conditions-change-the-rba-changes-policy and where-to-from-here-for-the-anti-fair-work-act-campaign
• Sinclair Davidson gives us is-it-a-dodgy-graph. Yes it is actually
• Greg Jericho being a bit more honest  and then drum-postdodgy-graphs-and-easy-markers ( take a look at the % of GDP)  Compare both articles
• Ross Gittins on the-economic-geography-of-big-cities
• Joshua Gans crashes and burns on the NBN ( check out comments)
• Andrew Elder on calibre
• Kevin Bonham on the-abbott-factor-revisited-abbotts-rating-and-Labor's-decline
• David Walker on big-infrastructure-big-uncertainty

US

• Robert Waldeman writes  in-which-i-disagree-with-mark-thoma-noah-smith-and-myself
• Robert Waldeman and wait-no-more-david-beckworth related to David Beckworth and the-seen-and-unseen-structural-budget
• Menzies Chin examines a heritage report on employment and still cannot find any crowding out and againthe_multiplier_in_action
• Mark Thoma via Tim Duy discusses fed-watch-when-deficits-become-a-problem and fed-watch-when-will-the-divergence-between-pce-and-cpi-matter
• Brad De Long on /paul-krugman-naive-fiscal-cynicism-its-not-that-we-cant-manage-our-debt-its-that-right-wing-republicans-seek-to-break , laura-dandrea-tyson-lessons-on-fiscal-policy-since-the-recession,austin-frakt-power-calculations-for-diabetes-in-the-nejm-oregon-medicaid-study
• Sandwichman on a-very-big-puzzle-how-many-ways-to-skin-katz and lumps-of-mulligan
• Mark Thoma gives us Tim Duy on fed-watch-consistency-of-the-underlying-trends
• Kruggers on the-stimulus-debate-revisited, theres-something-about-maynard,more-on-the-roots-of-bernanke-hatred
• Steve Roth on scott-sumner-goes-marxist-proposes-targeting-labors-share-of-income
• Jim Hamilton looks at the_soaring_stockmarket
• Spencer England too 
• Antonio Fatas as well via Mark Thoma
• Canada and Frances Woolley finds yup-the-nhs-did-produce-some-weird-data and is-the-abandonment-of-religion-greatly-exaggerated
• Steve Roth says edward-lambert-on-effective-demand-labor-share-capacity-utilization-and-growth
• the very readable David Glasner on martin-feldstein-is-at-it-again 
• Macroblog on weighing-in-on-the-recent-discrepancy-in-the-inflation-statistics 
• Jared Bernstein on the-health-care-market-is-so-not-a-market
• Ricardian Ambivalence says fomc-lays-out-exit-strategy

Europe

• Mark Thoma says talk-about-softened-austerity-at-the-eurozone-level-is-pure-nonsense
• Simon Wren-Lewis asks is-ukip-uks-tea-party
• Brendan Walsh on successful-completion-of-tenth-review-of-troika-programme  Ireland
• John McHale on drawing-conclusions-from-the-announcement-of-omt

General

• Mark Thoma gives us does-immigration-hurt-support-for-the-welfare-state, seven-myths-about-keynesian-economicsl really important for some to read then read keyness-not-so-big-mistake
• Kruggers tells us naive-fiscal-cynicism,exchange-rates-and-austerity,keyness-not-so-big-mistake and land-of-the-rising-sums and in-praise-of-econowonkery and finally inflation-madness
• Lord Keynes writes about Keynes and asks  in-long-run-we-are-all-dead-what-did-he-mean
• Larry Summers on lessons-can-be-learned-from-reinhart-rogoff-error
• Justin Wolfers and Betsy Stevenson tell us of reinhart-rogoff-s-lesson-for-economists
• Simon Wren-Lewis on more-on-naive-fiscal-cynicism
• John McHale on blanchard-and-leigh-fiscal-consolidation-at-what-speed
• Nick Rowe on macroeconomics-when-all-goods-are-non-riva
• David Glasner on hawtrey-reviews-cassel and a-newly-revised-version-of-my-paper-with-ron-batchelder-on-hawtrey-and-cassel-is-now-available-on-ssrn
• Noah Smith on if-you-get-phd-get-economics-phd and of-course-hedge-funds-lose-money and lastly science-fiction-for-economists
• Robert Wade on our-misleading-measure-of-income-and-wealth-inequality-the-standard-gini-coefficient 
• James Kwak on the-cost-of-equity-capital
• San Francisco Fed on Crises before and after the creation of the Fed
• Owen Zidar on labs-of-democracy-lessons-for-todays-fiscal-policy-debates
• Barkely Rosser asks is-kyoto-protocol-dead
• Mark Thoma gives us Dan Rodrik on what-is-wrong-and-right-in-economics
• and then Cardiff Garcia on about-those-inflation-fears
• Progrowth liberal looks at abenomics-and-mortgage-rates
• Brad Plumer finds carbon-dioxide-levels-are-at-their-highest-point-in-at-least-800000-years
• Robert Waldeman on my-thoughts-on-dani-rodriks-thoughts
• Mike Konzal on what-would-financial-instability-argument-look-any-other-industry
• Kruggers on the-moral-equivalent-of-space-aliens
• Mark Thoma gives us Geoffrey West who says big-data-needs-a-big-theory-to-go-with-it
• Steve Roth on bleg-whats-wrong-with-the-mpcspending-velocity-argument
• Ricardian Ambivalence on japanese-capital-begins-to-move-finally
• Mark Thoma on in-praise-of-econowonkery

Wonk

• Simon Wren-Lewis on blanchard-on-fiscal-policy and sheedy-on-ngdp-targeting-and-debt.html
• Brad De Long on john-maynard-keynes-1923-a-tract-on-monetary-reform-pp-80-82 
• Lord Keynes on keyness-mistakes-in-general-theory , mises-on-war-debt-not-what-you-would-expect and misesian-economic-calculations
• FRB on Estate vs Capital Gains taxation
• FRB on the long and short of household formation

Andrew Gelman well Statistics really

• the-new-york-times-book-of-mathematics/
• cleaning-up-science
• against-optimism-about-social-science
• is-felix-salmon-wrong-on-free-tv
• a-tale-of-two-discussion-papers
• the-recursion-of-pop-econ-or-of-trolling
• actually-i-have-no-problem-with-this-graph
• Kaiser Fong on screening-screening and challenges-with-sports-analytics
• Godstats badstats examinesThe Wealthy getting wealthier- Looking deeper

David Giles (Econometrics)

• the-frequent-regressors-club
• a-visual-proof-that-ols-is-blu
• burgernomics
• my-recent-reading
• the-indiana-jones-of-economics
• robust-standard-errors-for-nonlinear-models

Voxwonk

• finance-and-growth-china-and-india-have-firms-benefited-capital-market-expansion
• rapid-current-account-rebalancing-southern-eurozone
• policy-preferences-central-bankers-and-design-monetary-policy-committee
• france-s-weak-economic-performance-sick-taxation
• banking-crises-and-political-survival-over-long-run
• tpp-s-effect-japanese-growth
• european-bank-deleveraging-and-global-credit-conditions
• escaping-liquidity-traps-lessons-uk-s-1930s-escape
• preventing-next-catastrophe-where-do-we-stand
• rethinking-macroeconomic-policy
• cat-tree-and-further-observations-rethinking-macroeconomic-policy
• lessons-north-atlantic-crisis-economic-theory-and-policy
• pro-growth-economic-plan