Around the Traps 15/6/23

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Ross Gittins on consumerism-and-social-status-keep-our-noses-to-the-grindstone, grim-reaper-is-catching-up-with-baby-boomers
• Kevin Bonham on voice-referendum-polling-yes-vote-keeps-on-falling
• renew economy on wind-farms-set-new-output-record-in-australias-main-grid-for-first-time-in-2023, hydrogens-dirty-secret-leaks-could-have-12-times-impact-on-global-warming-than-co2, australia-needs-1-5c-target-to-break-regulatory-deadlock-and-kick-coal-out-of-grid, coal-outages-strike-across-two-states-as-power-prices-march-up, truly-momentous-solar-is-changing-everything-and-australia-must-seize-the-occasion, day-for-history-books-hazelwood-big-battery-first-to-be-built-at-site-of-a-former-coal-generator, the-investment-test-for-electricity-transmission-has-become-a-sham, big-batteries-storm-the-fossil-fuel-citadels-and-spell-the-end-for-coal-and-gas
• James Wood et al on were-in-another-covid-wave-but-its-not-like-the-others
• Croaking Cassandra on land-value-rating-for-wellington
• Peter Martin on dont-blame-workers-for-falling-productivity-were-not-the-ones-holding-it-back
• Dean Askeilowisz and Paul Taucher on stripping-medals-from-soldiers-is-murky-territory-and-must-not-distract-from-investigating-alleged-war-crimes
• Tom Sanzillo on australian-taxpayers-face-big-bills-flawed-northern-territory-industrial-development-plan

Northern America

• the overshoot on greedflation-and-the-profits-equation Thanks Brad
• Gabriel Chin on trump-indictment-unsealed-a-criminal-law-scholar-explains-what-the-charges-mean-and-what-prosecutors-will-now-need-to-prove
• Ellen Ioannes on mccarthy-gop-house-freedom-caucus
• calculated risk on why-year-over-year-headline-inflation-will-decline-sharply-in-may-and-june
• Chris Anstey on fed-rates-latest-inflation-hop-policy-skip-may-set-dissent-jump Thanks Brad
• Jared Mondschein on yes-federal-charges-against-a-former-president-are-unprecedented-but-so-is-trumps-political-power
• Brad De Long on good-headline-disappointing-core
• new deal democrat on properly-measured-inflation-is-no-longer-a-significant-issue
• Calculated Risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-04%
• Emma Shortis on for-joe-biden-the-indictment-of-donald-trump-carries-a-heavy-responsibility-and-a-risk
• Nicole Narea and Liz Zhou on trump-miami-arrest-arraignment-classified-documents-indictment, trump-jail-criminal-indictment-explained-espionage-cannon
• Ian Millhiser on aileen-cannon-donald-trump-jack-smith-indictment-mar-a-lago-maga, supreme-court-indian-child-welfare-haaland-brackeen-amy-coney-barrett
• Dahlia Lithwick on trump-indictment-reveals-two-americas
• Cooper Burton on supreme-court-approval-rating-polls
• the grumpy economist on the-barn-door
• Menzie Chinn on may-2023-inflation-various-measures-horizons
• Robby Soave on trump-indictment-documents-classified-espionage Thanks Brad
• Nicole Narea on trump-biden-clinton-pence-sock-document-case
• Fintan O'toole on the-ultimate-deal
• noahopinion on heat-pumps-heat-pumps-heat-pumps
• the conversable economist on remote-sales-tax-on-e-commerce-purchases-from-other-states, update-on-us-budget-deficits-if-anyone-cares
• Ved Shinde on washington-s-difficult-dance-middle-east
• Connor O'Brien on us-industrial-policy-headed-wrong-direction
• Amelia Thomson-Deveaux on abortion-trend-after-dobbs
• Oliver Willis on conservatives-arent-like-normal-americans Thanks Brad
• Brody Mullins on republicans-corporations-donations-pacs Thanks Brad

Europe

• Yuriv Dorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub on ukraine-russia-culture-war-gessen-pen-resignation Thanks Brad
• Jen Kirby on russia-ukraine-war-counteroffensive-begins-explained
• Andrea Gill on silvio-berlusconi-the-property-developer-who-became-a-media-tycoon-and-italys-most-flamboyant-prime-minister
• Mainly Macro on the-campaign-against-labour-borrowing-to-invest
• Paul Whitely on boris-johnson-resignation-why-rishi-sunak-cant-afford-to-lose-more-than-one-of-three-impending-byelections
• Keith Gessen on how-the-west-lost-the-peace-philipp-ther-book-review
• stumbling and mumbling on the-joyless-polity
• Rachel Sanderson on silvio-berlusconi-wrote-the-playbook-for-the-modern-populist Thanks Brad

Asia

• Cherry Hitkari on shangri-la-missed-chance-us-china-dialogue
• Gareth Evans on the-case-for-recognising-palestine
• Nikola Mikovic on russia-s-ally-kazakhstan-turns-eyes-west
• Gabriela Bernal on it-s-time-south-korea-refocus-multilateral-diplomacy

Wonk

• BDM on the-romance-of-the-grift Thanks Brad
• Tim Harford on the-cheese-the-rats-and-why-some-of-us-are-poorer-than-others
• noahopinion on price-controls-too-early-for-a-victory-lap, why-trying-to-shape-ai-innovation-to-proyect-workers-is-a-bad-idea, heterodox-vs-mainstream-macroeconomics
• Stephen Grenville on end-neo-liberal-order
• the grumpy economist on papers-dew-becker-on-networks
• renew economy on world-must-add-1-5tw-of-new-wind-and-solar-each-year-to-keep-to-1-5c-of-warming, solar-pushes-global-grid-to-cascading-tipping-points-and-puts-science-targets-within-reach, 
• Menzie Chinn on term-spread-inversion-and-non-inversions
• Tyler Cowen on game-theory-and-the-first-world-war, what-is-the-optimistic-case-for-kenya
• Lant Pritchett on what-i-as-a-development-economist-have-been-actively-for Thanks Brad

General

• Nathan Brownlowe on has-a-mathematician-solved-the-invariant-subspace-problem-and-what-does-that-even-mean
• Kira Westaway et al on bones-the-cave-of-the-monkeys-and-86-000-years-of-history-new-evidence-pushes-back-the-timing-of-human-arrival-in-southeast-asia
• Laura Mc Kemmish et al on for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-found-life-supporting-molecules-called-phosphates-on-enceladus

Climate

• Peter Sinclair on comparing-solar-and-fossil-eroi-good-and-getting-better
• the conversable economist on what-permits-are-needed-for-a-new-electricity-transmission-line
• Timothy Naish on antarctic-tipping-points-the-irreversible-changes-to-come-if-we-fail-to-keep-warming-below-2
• Moyhu on giss-may-global-temperature-down-by-0.06-from-april

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• the-cigarettes-and-cocaine-argument
  
• r-and-oop-anti-patterns
  
• evil-spammers-waste-our-time
  
• joe-simmons-leif-nelson-and-uri-simonsohn-agree-with-us-regarding-the-much-publicized-but-implausible-and-unsubstantiated-claims-of-huge-effects-from-nudge-interventions
  
• the-loneliest-kind-of-lonely
  
• the-three-ages-of-i
  
• ai-as-wiley-e-coyote-and-a-funny-thing-about-worstfish
  
• explaining-the-horribly-wasteful-u-s-heath-care-system-as-a-combination-of-rich-countries-spend-more-on-health-care-and-diminishing-returns-to-health-care-spending
  
• fake-data-scandal-in-basketball
  
• bayes-is-guaranteed-to-overfit-what-does-this-mean-theres-a-factor-of-2-here
  
• statschat on 72%-of-landlords
• Kaiser Fung on uninsightful-by-design

Dianne Coyle

• the-material-roots-of-the-weightless
  
• so-you-want-to-be-an-economist
  
• global inequality on americas-adam-smith Thanks Brad
• Tyler Cowen on medieval-horizons-why-the-middle-ages-matter, the-economic-government-of-the-world-1933-2023
• Alex Tabarrok on plagues-upon-the-earth

Vox Wonk

• value-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
  
• electoral-earthquakes-local-shocks-and-authoritarian-voting
  
• inflation-covid-demand-or-supply
  
• fostering-sustainable-digital-transformation
  
• public-backstops-during-crises-2022-2023
  
• reconstruction-aid-ukraine-what-we-know-or-should-know-history-assistance-eastern
  
• constructing-novel-datasets-chatgpt-opportunities-and-limitations
  
• world-our-oyster-academic-migration-theory-and-practice
  
• prices-crises