Around the Traps 6/6/14

It is time again for Around the Traps.

My hard drive is down so I hope to update on Sunday or even Monday which is a public holiday as we celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday?

I am updating the special Piketty edition all the time!

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• The Kouk on will-abbott-s-economic-negativity-become-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy, china-s-whoops-australia-s-strong-q1-gdp-result, the-australian-s-claim-on-tobacco-go-up-in-smoke
• Macrobusiness on tony-abbott-has-destroyed-faith-in-government
• Ross Gittins on hockey-crafts-our-first-decadal-budget, changes-to-hecs-debt-users-guide
• Greg Jericho on australia-soft-landing-could-be-bumpier, six-facts-that-show-the-health-of-australias-economy
• Paul Fritjers on what-are-the-likely-consequences-of-hecs-fee-liberalisation
• Andrew Elder on the-guns-of-singapore
• Antony Green on the-on-going-political-crisis-in-victoria-deepens
• Mumble on will-Abbott-be-like-Gillard-or-Keating, send_in_the_codgers, re_election_policies
• M0nty on randsformers-versus-establicons

Northern America

• Bruce Webb on yes-magazine-infographic-why-social-security-is-not-going-broke
• Carola Binder on long-term-unemployment-and-dual-mandate Thanks Mark
• Macroblog on how-discouraged-are-the-marginally-attached
• Angry Bear on quelle-surprise-labor-productivity-is-up-while-labor-wages-are-still-down
• Edward Lambert on labor-share-up-profit-rates-down
• Lord Keynes on a-us-wholesale-price-index-1860-1914
• Calculated Risk on public-and-private-sector-payroll-jobs-under-various-Presidents

Europe

• Simon Wren-Lewis on scottish-independence, tyrie-and-imf-on-austerity, what-we-do-know
• Chris Dillow on understandable-concerns, politics-in-denial
• Menzie Chinn on economic-prospects-of-ukraine
• Kruggers on very-serious-europeans-2
• Angus Armstrong on independence-bonus-or-uk-dividend

Asia

• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-asia-pacific-regional-integration

Wonk

• Nick Rowe on 100%-reserves-and-interest-on-reserves, john-cochrane-on-monetary-policy-with-interest-on-reserves
• Chris Dillow on economists-advice, house-prices-class-struggle, patriarchy-as-an-emergent-process
• Edward Lambert on points-of-agreement-with-john-taylor
• Mark Thoma gives us Daniel Little onbasic-social-institutions-and-democratic-equality
• Kenneth Thomas on is-that-a-good-economic-development-deal-a-checklist
• Gerard Jackson on the-great-depression-and-the-real-facts-behind-roosevelts-1937-depression
• Mark Thoma gives us John Cochrane on do-low-cause-reach-for-yield
• Simon Wren-Lewis on privatisation-and-government-debt, how-to-change-inflation-target
• Tim Harford on an-astonishing-record-of-complete-failure
• Noah Smith on we-dont-know-why-recessions-or-inflation-happens

General

• Jim Rose on poverty-isnt-what-it-used-to-be, everything-you-know-about-teenage-pregnancies-is-wrong 
• Simon Wren-Lewis on reforming-econ-101
• Nick Rowe on teaching-general-principles-of-macro
• The Kouk on negative-interest-rates-explained
• James Hamilton on negative-interest-rates
• Kevin O'Rourke on the-economics-of-world-war-i
• Lord Keynes on a-bibliography-on-history-of-post-Keynesian-economics
• Chris Dillow on the-home-working-puzzle
• Noah Smith on small-steps-toward-actually-ending-racism

Climate

• Noah Smith on how-to-really-beat-global-warming
• Steve from Brisbane on confirmation-that-ocean-acidification-is-a-scary-experiment-without-precedent, antarctic-sea-ice-noted
• Jeffrey Sachs on kudos-to-the-white-house
• Brave New Climate on critique-100pc-renewables-edm
• Tamino on foolish-line, teachable-moment
• Rabette run on eli-reads-again, cooking-Tol, in-spirit-of-deep-climate
• Mark Thoma gives us Kruggers on  energy-choices
• Mark Thoma gives us Robert Stavins on why-are-conservatives-attacking-its-market-based-climate-options. They don't in OZ either!!

Andrew Gelman ( Mainly Stats)

• why-we-hate-stepwise-regression
• buy-laundry-detergent-recent-trip-store
• assumptions-life
• identifying-pathways-managing-multiple-disturbances-limit-plant-invasions
• hurricanes-vs-himmicanes
• researching-casual-marijuana-use-cause-brain-abnormalities
• regression-causality-variable-ordering
• Mark Thoma on data-problems-in-economics
• Kaiser Fung on the-pleasure-of-walking

Dave Giles (Econometrics)
nuttin yet. come on Dave!!  He crept on me!

• the-deviance-information-criterion
• frequentist-vs-bayesian-analysis
• new-award-for-david-hendry

Dianne Coyle (Quirky + Book Reviews)

• economists-in-fiction, whats-on-the-in-pile, learning-and-economic-development,market-forces, the-debt-overhang, making-democracy-fun
• Steve Roth on the-five-best-nonfiction-books 
• Bryan Walker on climate-change-and-the-course-of-global-history
• Tim Harford on dont-blame-statisticians-for-counting-the-wages-of-sin
• Steve from Brisbane on einstein-summarised,learning-about-leo
• Jim Rose on hollywood-economics
• Liveo Di Matteo on the-economic-role-of-monarchy

Vox wonk

• exchange-rates-and-trade-adjustment-fat-tails-matter
• piketty-s-second-law-capitalism-vs-standard-macro-theory
• four-myths-about-great-war-1914-1918
• repairing-transmission-monetary-policy-through-asset-backed-securitisation
• raising-investment-eurozone
• economic-history-and-economic-development
• capital-controls-21st-century
• procyclicality-initial-margin-models
• no-top-fives-no-worries
• public-opinion-immigration-and-recession
• gender-and-labour-market
• public-opinion-immigration-and-recession
• model-risk-risk-measures-when-models-may-be-wrong
• primer-global-liquidity