Around the Traps 14/2/14 Valentine's day Edition no 7/2/14 actually!

It is time for the Valentine's days edition of Around the traps.
Ricardian Ambivalence is back, Noah Smith is in fine form and Genial Dave Giles is apparently still on strike!! He is back at work. hooray. Andrew Gelman has one fascinating piece!

do not read this until your sweethearts have a rose or you have received one!!

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• The Kouk talks sense to the Commision of audit
• Ricardian Ambivalence on is-the-rba-really-neutral,not-so-hawkish-q114-rba-somp
• Ross Gittins on hockey-faces-daunting-budget-challenge, top-10-economic-reforms-that-tranformed-Australia
• Mumble on tos_and_fros_in_griffith, dr_shortens_monster, not_what_shorten_wanted
• Kevin Bonham on griffith-sound-and-fury-signifying-little
• Andrew Elder on the-new-marginals
• Mr Denmore on reframing-freedom, storm-damage
• M0nty almost does a summary of the week

Northern America

• Progrowth Liberal on what-cbo-really-said-about-obamacare 
• Kruggers on cbo-aca-ok, labor-supply-and-the-meaning-of-life
• Mark Thoma gives us Tim Duy on fed-watch-no-end-to-tapering-yet, fed-watch-another-month-another-employment-report
• Calculated Risk on fed-survey-banks-eased-lending-standards-experienced-increased-demand Fancy that!, public-and-private-sector-payroll-jobs
• Menzie Chinn on observations-on-the-gdp-release-and-the-cbo-outlook
• James Hamilton on cbo-deficit-projections

Europe

• Chris Dillow on manufacturings-demise, what-did-tax-cuts-do
• Simon Wren-Lewis on breaking-up-is-hard-to-do, austerity-and-flood-damage

Asia
nuttin

Wonk

• Antonio Fatas on the-conservative-bias-of-economic-models
• Noah Smith on do-economic-facts-have-conservative-bias, how-new-classicals-drankthe-austrians-milkshake, does-trend-chasing-explain-financial-markets, which-is-better-altruism-or-greed
• Barkely Rosser on will-future-fed-policy-be-driven-by-behavioural-macroeconomics
• Noah Smith on separate-capital-budget-to-fix-infrastructure-woes 
• Kruggers on demography-and-employment-wonkish,reverse-notch-blogging-extremely-wonkish
• Edward Lambert on pressure-to-lower-prices
• Robert Solow on the-one-percent
• David Glasner on why-are-wages-sticky and Kruggers on sticky-situations
• Simon Wren-Lewis on speaking-as-old-new-keynesian and then Kruggers the-excluded-middlebrow-wonkish
• Chris Dillow on who-benefits-from-benefits

General

• Noah Smith on krugman-the-moderate related Brad De Long on chris-house-all-opinions-of-shape-of-earth-are-nutty-does-this-qualify-as-thursday-idiocy-yes-i-conclude-that-it-does 
• John Quiggin on some-thoughts-on-energy-storage
• Lord Keynes on the-recession-of-19201921-versus-1929-33, debt-deflation-1920-1921-versus-1929-1933
• Nick Rowe on negative-money
• Chris Dillow on taxes-and-marxism
• Skeptikoi on the-conglomerates-fall-from-grace-two , the-restless-investor-trust-and-the-global-cyclesorry late
• Kruggers on austerity-memories-2
• David Glasner on now-we-know-ethanol-caused-the-2008-financial-crisis-and-the-little-depression

Climate

• Rabette run on is-the-message-getting-through,five-year-average-temps-and-betting, 
• The science of doom on ghosts-of-climates-past-sixteen-roe-vs-huybers-ii
• Tamino on pity-the-fool, antarctic-sea-ice-increase, tiny-graphs

Andrew Gelman( King/Prez? of the P values)

• one-way-street-fallacy-reporting-research-brothers-sisters
• widening-goalposts-medical-trials
• prior-distribution-predicted-probability
• bootstrap-averaging-examples-works-doesnt-work
• outrage-of-the-week
• guys-who-do-more-housework-get-less-sex
• keli-liu-xiao-li-meng-simpsons-paradox

Dave Giles ( Econometrics guru)

• the-february-reading-list
• vintage-years-in-econometrics-1960s
• a-blast-from-past
• the-statsguys-on-data-analytics

Dianne Coyle (Quirky + Book Reviews)

• would-keynes-see-FOX-news-as-progress, implementation, a-fine-innovation-economist,the-invisible-industry,a-dangerous-obsession
• David Glasner on big-ideas-in-macroeconomics-a-review
• Chris Dillow on our-parental-inheritance, politics-as-wrestling
• Tim Harford on the-royal-accounts-are-printed-in-red-and-gold

Voxwonk

• german-resurgence-it-wasn-t-hartz-reforms
• tax-evasion-and-austerity-plan-failure
• where-land-opportunity-intergenerational-mobility-us
• understanding-emerging-market-turmoil
• democracy-inhibits-ethnic-favouritism
• causes-eurozone-external-imbalances
• A-call-for-liquidity-stress-testing
• causes-of-eurozone-external-imbalances
• why-don-t-african-firms-create-more-jobs
• job-polarisation-and-decline-middle-class-workers-wages
• financing-and-investment-decline-uk
• shale-gas-and-housing-market