Around the Traps 29/6/22

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Joshua Black on even-in-the-political-afterlife-morrison-departs-from-the-norm
• Michelle Grattan on officials-resisted-morrison-governments-attempt-to-have-them-amplify-election-day-boat-arrival
• Ann Foerster et al on 4-lessons-for-the-albanese-government-in-making-its-climate-targets-law-we-cant-afford-to-get-this-wrong
• Kevin Bonhan on federal-election-2022-pollster-performance-review
• the tally room on what made up labour's election winning strategy 
• renew economy on bowen-frees-arena-from-taylors-fossil-fuel-mandate-puts-focus-back-on-renewables, good-vibe-new-data-shows-wind-farm-complaints-tumbled-in-2021, look-no-trackers-stanford-engineers-say-pyramid-shaped-lens-can-capture-more-solar, aemo-urges-accelerated-shift-to-renewables-amid-coal-failures-and-soaring-fossil-fuel-costs, opportunity-cost-the-role-played-by-snowys-hydro-plants-in-electricity-price-spike
• Tayanah O'Donnell on building-too-close-to-the-water-its-ridiculous-talk-of-buyouts-after-floods-shows-need-to-get-serious-about-climate-adaptation
• Frank Bongornio on do-we-care-enough-about-covid
• Institutional economics on the-neutral-real-interest-rate-doomloop, the-canadian-australian-business-sector-productivity-gap-a-sectoral-analysis
• Peter Martin on labor-is-winding-back-reforms-meant-to-hold-super-funds-accountable-to-their-members
• Croaking Cassandra on a-voice-from-the-past, a-public-inquiry-isnt-necessary, did-it-make-a-difference
• Ross Gittins on inflation-small-problem-so-dont-hit-sledgehammer
• Andrew Stewart on killing-off-the-building-watchdog-may-not-be-the-win-unionists-want
• Michael Toole and Brendan Crabb on australias-response-to-covid-in-the-first-2-years-was-one-of-the-best-in-the-world-why-do-we-rank-so-poorly-now
• John Quiggin on labor-has-introduced-its-controversial-climate-bill-to-parliament-heres-how-to-give-it-real-teeth
• John Quiggin and Flavio Menezes on inflation-is-being-amplified-by-firms-with-market-power
• John Hawkins on inflation-hasnt-been-higher-for-32-years-what-now
• Greg Jericho on the-rba-is-increasing-interest-rates-to-counter-inflation-but-it-will-also-slow-wages-growth
• Hal Swerissen on 4-in-10-nursing-homes-have-a-covid-outbreak-and-the-death-rate-is-high-whats-going-wrong
• Saul Eslake on the-chalmers-graphs-7-75-inflation-plunging-real-wages-weak-growth
• James Curran on australia-china-relations-understanding-how-we-arrived-point

Northern America

• Jeremy Stahl on steve-bannon-guilty-no-surprise-there
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-gavin-newsom-sb-8-abortion-guns-california-assault-rifle-law
• Richard Hasen on collins-manchin-election-bill-democrats-should-grab
• the message box on why-the-16-hearings-have-damaged-trump Thanks Brad
• noahopinion on why-doesnt-the-fed-just-hike-200bp-all-at-once
• new deal democrat on after-the-civil-war-reconstruction
• Nathaniel Rackich on why-democrats-midterm-chances-dont-hinge-on-bidens-approval-rating
• policy tensor on the-yield-curve-is-predicting-much-worse-than-a-recessions thanks Brad
• the conversable economist on immigrants-assimilating-then-and-now
• renew economy on three-reasons-why-us-coal-power-is-disappearing-and-a-supreme-court-ruling-wont-save-it
• James Hamilton on is-this-a-recession
• Nick Gruen on should-liz-cheney-be-your-hero

Europe

• Ben Wellings on boris-johnson-says-his-time-as-uk-pm-was-mission-largely-accomplished-how-does-that-actually-stack-up
• John Quiggin on the-kosovo-precedent
• Timothy Snyder on why Russia is losing ( twitter ) thanks Tyler ,the-state-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war
• stumbling and mumbling on the-futility-of-economic-policy-debate
• Mainly Macro on sunak-vs-truss-battle-between-two-failed-economic-policies
• Felix Salmon on russia-sanctions-economic-impact
• Menzie Chinn on the-fiscal-and-fx-crises-of-the-russian-state-in-war
• Mathew Sussex on are-vladimir-putins-nuclear-threats-a-bluff-in-a-word-probably
• Andrew Freedman on global-warming-worsened-uk-heat-wave

Asia

• Michael Clarke on dizzy-success-xi-consolidates-repression-xinjiang
• noahopinion on pakistan-is-in-big-trouble
• Thilak Mallawaarachchi on how-did-sri-lanka-run-out-of-money-5-graphs-that-explain-its-economic-crisis
• Menzie Chinn on china-outlook-from-the-weo
• Shivanghi Seth on smoke-screen-normalcy-kashmir
• Stephen Roach on china-hit-hard-by-slowing-world-trade Thanks Brad

Wonk

• Menzie Chinn on will-commodity-prices-continue-to-sustain-inflation
• Divyanshu Jindal on element-doubt-rare-earths-targeted-disinfo-campaign
• Stephen Grenville on capital-flows-emerging-economies
• Barkes on the-grain-deal
• the conversable economist on some-economics-of-codetermination, is-a-recession-defined-as-two-negative-quarters
• the UnPopulist on the-triple-justification-for-liberalism Thanks Brad
• Eyes on the right on  thinking-about-fascismpart-1 , thinking-about-fascismpart-2Thanks Brad
• The Bellows on the-end-of-the-conservative-age Thanks Brad
• Phillips O'Brien on great-power-country-economy-technology-military
• Tyler Cowen on in-praise-of-regulatory-arbitrage
• coppolla comment on where-has-all-money-gone

General

• Tim Harford on your-phones-notification-settings-and-the-meaning-of-life
• noahopinion on four-things-i-got-wrong-since-i-started-this-blog

Climate

• Open Mind on extra-ordinary-heat-wave
• Rabett run on more-hydrogen-less-methane-about-same-ho
• Norman Duke on climate-change-killed-40-million-australian-mangroves-in-2015-heres-why-theyll-probably-never-grow-back
• and Then Theres Physics on revisiting-causality-using-stochastics
• the conversable economist on the-no-burn-forest-policy-origins-and-consequences

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• basboll-gets-gpt-3-to-write-an-entire-five-paragraph-essay-complete-with-fake-references
  
• recently-in-the-sister-blog-13
  
• details-of-implementation-of-machine-learning-algorithms
  
• after-work-socializing-alcohol-car-crashes
  
• how-music-works-by-david-byrne-and-sweet-anticipation-by-david-huron
  
• what-can-100000-get-you-nowadays-discussion-of-the-market-for-papers-in-economics
  
• discussion-on-identifiability-and-bayesian-inference
  
• statschat on briefly, attendance-figures, counting-bots-better
• Kaiser Fung on self-checkout-and-fast-passes

Econometrics

• nuttin

Dianne Coyle

• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

Vox Wonk

• social-media-and-mental-health
  
• impact-foreign-sanctions-firm-performance-russia
  
• public-versus-secret-voting-committees
  
• winter-coming-energy-policy-towards-russia
  
• crime-effect-refugees
  
• measuring-ukraine-s-private-consumption-during-war
  
• ruble-payments-shielding-ruble-financial-sanctions
  
• long-run-labour-market-effects-canada-us-free-trade-agreement
  
• parsing-disagreement-about-future-short-term-interest-rates
  
• neighbourhoods-won-t-be-improved-banning-unemployed
  
• large-firms-react-more-strongly-macro-shocks-and-it-matters
  
• variability-impacts-covid-19-student-achievement
  
• river-pollution-combating-cross-border-externalities