Around the Traps 28/5/21

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Adam Morton on scott-morrisons-claim-australias-greenhouse-gas-emissions-are-falling-does-not-stack-up
• Greg Jericho on the-coalition-doesnt-want-to-focus-on-climate-change-but-australia-will-be-forced-to, australia-has-not-had-a-gas-led-recovery-not-in-jobs-not-in-tax-receipts
• Brendan Coates on the-lesson-for-australia-out-of-victorias-property-tax-hikes-two-out-of-three-aint-bad
• Deepika Mathur and Imran Muhammed on stop-removing-your-solar-panels-early-please-its-creating-a-huge-waste-problem-for-australia
• Peter Martin on great-approach-weak-execution-economists-decline-to-give-budget-top-marks
• Jennifer Hsu on Australia-china-relations-more-hurdles-ahead
• Ross Gittins on key-reform-needed-to-fix-debt-and-deficit=ditch-the-tax-cuts, big-spending-on-aged-care-not-right-to-fix-the-problem
• John Quiggin on the-budgets-thylacine-chasing-days-are-over
• Croaking Cassandra on a-questionable-budget, a-bit-more-on-fiscal-policy, a-real-interest-rates-and-b-nzers-migration, monetary-policy-2
• Christian Downie on we-could-be-a-superpower-3-ways-australia-can-take-advantage-of-the-changing-geopolitics-of-energy
• renew economy on shell-and-edify-in-landmark-big-battery-storage-deal-in-nsw, a-new-flagship-coal-plant-failed-spectacularly-but-it-wont-be-the-last-time
• Hanah Leser on paying-price-australians-want-action-climate-change
• James Ha on a-100-renewables-target-might-not-mean-what-you-think-it-means-an-energy-expert-explains
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-a-bounce-back-in-investment-holds-open-the-possibility-of-very-good-news
• Catherine Bennett on its-time-for-australia-to-drop-its-phased-approach-to-the-vaccine-rollout

Northern America

• noahopinion on time-to-temper-my-optimism, why-do-people-hate-inflation
• Calculated Risk on a-few-comments-on-april-new-home-sales
• Menzie Chinn on steel-tariffs-and-iron-steel-prices, inflation-squeeze-on-wages
• Barkley Rosser on larry-summers-doubles-down-on-his-inflation-prediction

Europe

• Tim Luckhurst on bbc-diana-cover-up-why-lord-dysons-report-is-a-body-blow-for-broadcaster
• Mainly Macro on johnson-leads-populist-government-which-should-not-be-normalised
• Yasmeen Serhan on sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-belarus-flight-hijacking

Asia

• Anthony Billingsley on israel-and-the-palestinians-celebrate-a-ceasefire-but-will-anything-change
• Rodger Shanahan on challenge-abraham-accords
• Aymann Ismail on israel-palestine-coverage-bias-reporters
• Khang Vu on flexible-new-north-korea-policy-buzzword
• Chen Lee on asean-s-huge-gamble-myanmar
• Henry Storey on myanmar-not-next-syria
• Zack Beauchamp on Israel-palestine-two-state-solution-gaza-hamas-one
• Michaeel Beltrane on how-strong-duterte-strongman

Wonk

• Kruggers on who-was-milton-friedman Thanks Brad
• Tim Harford on why-bad-times-call-for-good-data
• noahopinion on the-future-of-war-is-bizarre-and-terrifying, status-anxiety-as-a-service
• Institutional Economics on the-super-cycle-and-julian-simon
• Chris Bertram on social-democracy-is-bound-to-struggle-in-a-world-of-nation-states

General

• Andrew Gelman on philip-roth-biographies-and-literary-biographies-in-general
• Nicholas Scott and Jesse Van De Sande on stellar-secrets-of-a-distant-galaxy-suggest-our-milky-way-isnt-so-special-after-all

Climate

• nuttin

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• thinking-fast-slow-and-not-at-all-system-3-jumps-the-shark
  
• the-revelation-came-while-hearing-a-background-music-version-of-iron-butterflys-in-a-gadda-da-vida-at-a-mr-steak-restaurant-in-colorado
  
• a-fun-activity-for-your-statistics-class-one-group-of-students-comes-up-with-a-stochastic-model-for-a-decision-process-and-simulates-fake-data-from-this-model-another-group-of-students-takes-this
  
• short-course-on-football-soccer-analytics-using-stan
  
• headline-permutations
  
• statschat on but-theyre-all-good-dogs

Econometrics

• Econometric Sense on the-value-of-business-experiments-part

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• Andrew Gelman on causal-inference-the-mixtape

Vox Wonk

• technological-progress-business-model-local-news-and-nationalisation-our-politics
  
• how-high-local-public-debt-and-local-public-banks-crowd-out-private-investment
  
• vaccines-developing-countries-igm-forum-survey
  
• how-monetary-policy-affects-distribution-income
  
• memory-and-reconciliation-dangers-common-enemy-narratives
  
• gendered-laws-do-matter
  
• jump-starting-investment-strong-and-even-recovery
  
• fed-spillovers-are-stronger-and-more-encompassing-ecb-s
  
• economics-and-study-race
  
• resilience-financial-system-natural-disasters
  
• heterogeneous-impact-short-time-work
  
• why-shareholder-capitalism-benefits-wider-society
  
• new-template-european-fiscal-framework
  
• factoryless-manufacturers-and-international-trade-age-global-value-chains
  
• origin-gender-gap