Around the Traps 26/6/20

It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Greg Jericho on jobkeeper-has-failed-and-its-hitting-women-and-young-people-the-hardest, how-will-we-know-when-australias-economy-is-back-to-normal
• Stephen Duckett and Anita Stobart on 7-lessons-for-australias-health-system-from-the-coronavirus-upheaval
• Judith Brett on australias-devotion-to-coal-has-come-at-a-huge-cost-we-need-the-government-to-change-course-urgently
• Susan Forde on if-the-government-listened-to-business-leaders-they-would-encourage-humanities-education-not-pull-funds-from-it
• Alan Dupont on canberra-vs-beijing-response-sam-roggeveen
• Ross Gittins on wage-tribunal-saves-employers-and-us-from-their-own-folly
• renew economy on south-australia-fast-tracks-energy-plan-to-dodge-blackouts-and-meet-100-renewables-goal , smoke-and-high-temperature-cut-outs-hit-solar-and-wind-output-in-summer-from-hell , big-utilities-split-over-delays-to-key-reform-that-backs-battery-storage, energy-regulator-considers-options-to-control-output-of-wind-and-solar-farms
• John Quiggin on if-we-could-design-jobkeeper-within-weeks-we-can-exit-coal-by-2030-heres-how-to-do-it
• Hugh Saddler on australia-has-failed-miserably-on-energy-efficiency-and-government-figures-hide-the-truth
• Adrian Esterman on victorias-coronavirus-hotspots-not-quite-a-second-wave-but-still-cause-for-concern
• Keasey McLaughlin on dyson-heydon-finding-may-spark-a-metoo-moment-for-the-legal-profession
• Croaking Cassandra on little fiscal discipline at the RB
• James Martin et al on chinas-disinformation-campaign-is-real-we-need-better-defences-against-state-based-cyberattacks
• Ian Marshman and Frank Larkins on the-government-is-making-job-ready-degrees-cheaper-for-students-but-cutting-funding-to-the-same-courses
• Darren O'Donovan on the-problem-is-not-fixed-why-we-need-a-royal-commission-into-robodebt
• Gabrielle Appleby on australia-urgently-needs-an-independent-body-to-hold-powerful-judges-to-account
• Leeanne Smith and Claire Brolan on goals-australia-do-better
• Gary Mortimore et al on covid-19-has-changed-the-future-of-retail-theres-plenty-more-automation-in-store
• Wendy Boyd on what-is-family-day-care-and-how-is-it-different-to-long-day-care-in-a-child-care-centre
• Alexandra Wake and Michael Ward on latest-84-million-cuts-rip-the-heart-out-of-the-abc-and-our-democracy
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-why-even-competent-politicians-refuse-to-change-policy-course
• Kyle Mulrooney and Alastair Harkness on illegal-hunters-are-a-bigger-problem-on-farms-than-animal-activists-so-why-arent-we-talking-about-that
• Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald on friday-essay-how-a-gonzo-press-gang-forged-the-ned-kelly-legend
• Chris Edmund et al on australia-must-reject-austerity-and-embrace-targeted-spending-to-beat-this-recession

Northern America

• Sam Roberts on john-roberts-supreme-court-abortion-trump-taxes
• Austin Sarat on barr-berman-us-attorneys-politics
• New Deal Democrat on the-2020-presidential-election-as-forecast-by-state-polling
• Perry Bacon on trumps-latest-firing-may-have-violated-four-democratic-values
• Calculated Risk on comments-on-may-existing-home-sales, a-few-comments-on-may-new-home-sales
• Econbrowser on how-many-fatalities-will-governors-and-localities-accept
• George Rennie on is-america-a-failing-state-how-a-superpower-has-been-brought-to-the-brink
• Andrew Prokop on geoffrey-berman-sdny-fired-barr
• Ian Millhiser on michael-flynn-court-dismiss-charges-neomi-rao-karen-henderson-robert-wilkins
• Fintal O'Toole on trump-unpresident-unredeemed-promise
• Brenda Wineapple on alien-sedition-acts-authoritarian-crackdown
• Macromania on why-fed-should-create-standing-repo
• Dan Crawford on the-challenges-to-the-dollar 
• Tim Duy on rate-cut-on-the-way Thanks Brad
• Geoffrey Skelley on new-polling-shows-trumps-electoral-college-advantage-is-slipping
• Ezra Klein on donald-trump-2020-polls-coronavirus-biden-reelection-losing

Europe

• Chris Porter on marcus-rashford-black-lives-matter-and-a-british-premier-who-is-out-of-his-league
• Coppolla comment on the-true-story-of-ni-autocredits
• Mainly Macro on did-the-uk-really-almost-go-bankrupt

Asia

• Weihuan Zhou on why-china-believed-it-had-a-case-to-hit-australian-barley-with-tariffs
• Abhijan Rej on lessons-india-china-border-clashes
• Rodger Shanahan on syria-thumbs-down
• Khang Vu on can-inter-korean-peace-be-salvaged-latest-wreckage

Wonk

• lawfare on information-attacks-democracies Thanks Brad
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-defining-recessions-when-negative-growth-is-too-common-or-too-rare, guest-contribution-the-effectiveness-of-macroprudential-policies-and-capital-controls-against-volatile-capital-inflows
• stumbling and mumbling on ideology-vs-the-triple-lock
• institutional economics on what-jnos-kornai-can-teach-us-about-housing-affordability
• Adam Kamridi-Scott on in-many-countries-the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-accelerating-not-slowing
• the conversable economist on adam-smith-as-practical-development, young-adults-entering-covid-19-workforce
• Douglas Campbell on relative prices and US Manufacturing Thanks Brad
• Darrin Lim on pivot-globalism-grievances-lurk
• Tom McTague on america-image-power-trump
• David Peetz on can-government-actually-predict-the-jobs-of-the-future
• Open Mind on how-to-lose-control-of-an-epidemic-like-covid-19

General

• Debbi Long on from-hospitals-to-households-we-can-all-be-better-at-remembering-to-wash-our-hands
• Ruth Margolin on in-search-of-king-davids-lost-empire
• John Quiggin on the-simple-but-difficult-physics-of-losing-weight

Climate

• and Then Theres Physics on extreme-event-attribution-and-the-nature-culture-duality
• Laura Revell on climate-explained-what-earth-would-be-like-if-we-hadnt-pumped-greenhouse-gases-into-the-atmosphere
• Umair Irfan on arctic-siberia-temperature-heat-wave-record-russia-fire-climate-change

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• against-overly-restrictive-definitions-no-i-dont-think-it-helps-to-describe-bayes-as-the-analysis-of-subjective
• retraction-of-racial-essentialist-article-that-appeared-in-psychological-science
• no-there-is-no-tension-between-getting-it-fast-and-getting-it-right
• resolving-confusions-over-that-study-of-teacher-effects-on-student-achievement-and-height
• stacking-for-non-mixing-bayesian-computations-the-curse-and-blessing-of-multimodal-posteriors
• election-odds-update
• awesome-map-shows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-mixture-models
• why-do-the-results-of-immigrant-students-depend-so-much-on-their-country-of-origin-and-so-little-on-their-country-of-destination
• statschat on watered-down-science
• Kaiser Fung on a-glimpse-into-surveillance-data-via-the-harvard-study-of-parking-lots, coronavirus-has-not-gone-away-neither-have-these-covid-fallacies

Retired but still genial Dave Giles ( econometrics)

• Marc Bellamare on estimating treatment effects with the front door criterion
• No Hesitations on covid-and-climate

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• angry-man
• Andrew Gelman on /the-intellectuals-and-the-masses
• Tim Harford on book-of-the-week-22-the-biggest-bluff-by-maria-konnikova
• John West on book-review-what-s-holding-china-s-economy-back

vox wonk

• covid-19-and-brexit-contrasting-sectoral-impacts-uk
• services-trade-policy-great-recession
• firm-age-productivity-and-intangible-capital
• real-time-weakness-global-economy-post-covid-19
• women-leaders-are-better-fighting-pandemic
• macroeconomic-analysis
• covid-19-putting-chinese-policy-reaction-context
• unmasked-effect-face-masks-spread-covid-19
• covid-19-mental-health-and-domestic-violence
• covid-19-developing-economies-new-ebook
• money-and-debt-paying-crisis
• monetary-policy-and-post-covid-19-housing-recovery
• challenges-and-opportunities-start-ups-time-covid-19
• eu-firms-post-covid-19-environment
• preserving-capital-financial-sector-weather-storm
• what-do-recoveries-past-us-recessions-teach-us-about-recovery-pandemic-recession
• trade-shocks-and-credit-reallocation-lessons-italy
• covid-19-and-teleworking-japan
• covid-and-nature-capitalism
• long-term-care-facilities-risk-factor-death-covid-19
• covid-19-and-macroeconomic-effects-automation