Around the Traps 14/1/22

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Flaviou Macou on supermarket-shortages-are-different-this-time-how-to-respond-and-avoid-panic
• renew economy on new-record-caps-stunning-year-of-australian-solar-milestones-sets-tone-for-2022, woodside-pitches-massive-solar-and-battery-plant-minuscule-dent-in-emissions
• John Quiggin on labors-proposed-10-billion-social-housing-fund-isnt-big-as-it-seems-but-it-could-work
• Ann Twomey on at-long-last-we-can-tear-open-the-queens-secret-letters-with-australias-governors-general
• Rachael Nolan et al on fire-management-in-australia-has-reached-a-crossroads-and-business-as-usual-wont-cut-it
• Richard Holden on the-3-problems-with-fines-for-not-reporting-positive-covid-tests
• Michelle Grattan on government-management-of-omicron-blighted-by-false-assumptions-bad-planning

Northern America

• John Murphy on biden-urges-america-to-see-the-truth-of-jan-6-and-understand-its-place-in-history
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-vaccine-mandate-osha-workplace-cms-medicare-medicaid-biden
• noahopinion on the-biden-boom, yes-worker-skills-matter, america-needs-more-basic-research
• the conversable economist on what-americans-like-about-their-health-care, us-pharmaceuticals-a-bifurcated-market
• Calculated Risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-04
• Ed Yong on for-covid-with-covid-hospitals-are-mess-either-way
• Kaleigh Rogers  on the-big-lie-voting-laws
• the time of monsters on destroying-the-democratic-party-wont-defeat-trump
• Nicole Narea on texas-omicron-hospitalizations-covid-icu-testing-vaccine
• Amelia Thomason-Deveaux on the-supreme-courts-right-turn-goes-way-beyond-guns-and-abortion/

Europe

• Lena Harned on in-kazakhstan-russia-follows-a-playbook-it-developed-in-ukraine
• Mainly Macro on the-broadcast-media-knowledge-disconnect
• Fintan O'Toole on arum-arum-araaaaaagh
• Rebecca Mead on boris-johnsons-lockdown-partygate
• Chris Stafford on boris-johnsons-downing-street-party-apology-three-key-takeaways

Asia

• David Brewster on indian-ocean-step
• noahopinion on six-books-on-china
• Brad De Long on trying-to-grasp-the-reality-of-china-today
• Shaun Cameron on whoever-controls-spice-controls-universe
• Chayanika Saxena and Roshni Kapur on geopolitics-aiding-taliban-s-afghanistan

Wonk

• Sarah Schiffling and Nikoalaos Kanellos on supply-chains-in-2022-shortages-will-continue-but-for-some-sellers-the-problem-will-be-too-much-stock
• Tim Harford on the-life-saving-magic-of-playing-games
• Uneasy Money on the-rises-and-falls-of-keynesianism-and-monetarism
• stumbling and mumbling on against-work, how-to-commit-fraud
• Stephen Grenville on history-lessons-great-crash
• Shannon Zimmerman on peace-and-security-not-the-same-thing
• Nick Gruen on ideas-hacks-representation-by-sampling-and-political-theory

General

• Aram Goudsouzian on sidney-poitier-hollywoods-first-black-leading-man-reflected-the-civil-rights-movement-on-screen

Climate

• Peter Sinclair on new-analysis-clean-energy-grid-with-no-blackouts
• Jim Green on in-2022-nuclear-powers-future-is-grimmer-than-ever
• Skeptical Science on the 1.5 degrees goal
• Eric Lonergan on the-wrong-chapter-of-the-textbook

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• my-new-article-failure-and-success-in-political-polling-and-election-forecasting-and-the-tangled-yet-uninteresting-story-of-how-it-came-to-be
  
• object-of-the-class-jacques-cousteau
  
• the-real-problem-of-that-nudge-meta-analysis-is-not-that-it-include-12-papers-by-noted-fraudsters-its-the-gigo-of-it-all
  
• suspense-in-music-suspense-in-stories-how-do-they-differ
  
• a-new-kind-of-spam
  
• this-is-a-great-graph-plotting-yt-vs-yt-tracing-over-time-with-a-dot-for-each-year
  
• the-hitchhikers-guide-to-responsible-machine-learning-and-statistical-analysis-illustrated
  
• chatbots-still-dumb-after-all-these-years
  
• Kaiser Fung on why-fda-says-stick-to-the-test, common-misreading-of-data-with-time-lags ,changing-metrics-when-you-dislike-the-results

Econometrics

• nuttin

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• muddle-muddle-toil-trouble
  
• Tyler Cowen on wgat-ive-been-reading

Vox Wonk

• unemployment-risk-channel-business-cycle-fluctuations
  
• language-subsidies-improve-knowledge-transfers-multinationals
  
• bitcoin-challenge
  
• what-facebook-can-tell-us-about-preference-differences-between-women-and-men
  
• discrimination-sexual-minorities-emerging-markets
  
• technology-transfer-and-early-industrial-development
  
• using-compensating-efficiencies-assess-eu-merger-policy
  
• pulse-biometric-measure-wellbeing
  
• zero-lower-bound-inflation-expectations
  
• services-firms-small-can-be-beautiful
  
• quantifying-full-impact-country-specific-policies-trade-flows
  
• how-global-risk-perceptions-affect-economic-growth
  
• potential-capital-working-home-and-economic-resilience
  
• trying-account-decline-labour-share