Around the Traps 27/12/24

 It is time again for Around the Traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Evangeline Mantziorous et al on from-garlic-to-parsley-new-research-reveals-the-herbs-and-spices-australians-love-most
• Ross Gittins on whats-happened-to-cost-of-living-is-trickier-than-you-think
• Kevin Bonham on 2024-federal-polling-year-in-review
• Gareth Hutchens on australia-super-tax-concessions-take-from-poor-give-to-rich
• croaking cassandra on fiscal-failure-and-indifference , the-secretary-to-the-treasury-defending-govt-fiscal-policy
• mark the ballot on end-of-2024-polling-and-betting-market-update
• Greg Jericho on the-awful-truth-at-the-heart-of-australian-housing-policy
• Kevin Bonham on twitter-vs-bluesky-and-psephosphere

OZ Climate

• how-big-utilities-manipulate-the-energy-market-even-with-a-high-share-of-wind-and-solar
  
• solar-switch-off-duttons-nuclear-plan-is-a-declaration-of-war-against-household-energy-systems
  
• snowy-hunter-gas-project-hit-by-more-delays-and-blowouts-with-total-cost-now-more-than-2-billion
  

Northern America

• Shann Wu on trump-fani-willis-shouldnt-be-disqualified-georgia-election
• Michael Steele on trump-cabinet-picks-democracy-test
• Menzie Chinn on trump-cea-nominee-stephan-miran
• Eric Levitz on government-shutdown-fight-spending-bill-trump-musk-house-republicans
• noahopinion on what-are-the-checks-and-balances-on-the-power-of-elon-musk , good-cities-cant-exist-without-public-order , indian-immigration-is-great-for-america
• Brad De Long on project-syndicate-american-idiots
• Clarissa Lim on supreme-court-ethics-senate-report
• Bill Haskell on health-insurance-again-and-this-time-with-krugman
• the conversable economist on take-a-look-at-aapss
• Tyler Cowen on the-importance-of-transportation-for-productivity
• Jahan Jones on trump-government-surveillance-powers
• Charlie Sykes on american-politics-has-an-age-problem

Europe

• Barry Eichengreen on german-economic-crisis-could-break-institutional-logjam Thanks Nick
• Menzie Chinn on putins-central-banker-angers-russian-elite-with-rate-hikes

Asia

• Chris Hayes on israel-gaza-haaretz-report-idf-civilians
• Mohd Yunus on beyond-borders-beyond-loss-how-regional-cooperation-can-safeguard-asia-s
• Kevin Drum on on-the-fence-over-china
• Lingling Wei on chinas bond yields scream the D word Thanks Brad
• Mark Lynch on five-thoughts-on-syrias-unfrozen-conflict Thanks Brad
• Stefan Tarnowski on syria-the-prison-gates-thrown-open
• Robin Wright on the-remarkable-collapse-of-irans-powerful-alliances

Wonk

• the prism on how-empathy-makes-us-cruel-and-crazy Thanks Nick
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-trump-threatens-tariffs-against-a-brics-chimera
• Ty Ferguson et al on switching-off-from-work-can-be-difficult-but-taking-a-proper-break-is-good-for-your-health
• Stephen Grenville on us-dollar-deal-explaining-lack-enthusiasm-plaza-accord-redux
• Tim Harford on why-are-governments-so-bad-at-problem-solving
• the conversable economist on more-police-fewer-prisons-and-other-ways-to-reduce-crime , charles-dickens-on-seeing-poverty, charles-dickens-on-management-and-labor
• sandwichman on klaus-fuchs-max-beer-and-our-anonymous-pamphleteer
• noahopinion on yes-americans-are-much-richer-than-japanese
• Kruggers on trumps-great-illusion Thanks Brad
• Konstantine Panegyres on like-your-pet-more-than-people-so-did-some-of-the-greco-romans

General

• Tom Hawking on pitch-perfect-why-listening-to-cricket-on-radio-soothes-a-world-that-wont-hear-sense
• Flora Hui on sunglasses-dont-just-look-good-theyre-good-for-you-too-heres-how-to-choose-the-right-pair
• Laura Driessen on ive-calculated-santas-speed-on-christmas-eve-and-this-is-what-it-would-do-to-rudolphs-nose
• Flora Hui on sunglasses-dont-just-look-good-theyre-good-for-you-too-heres-how-to-choose-the-right-pair
• Themia Nanayakkra et al on from-dead-galaxies-to-mysterious-red-dots-heres-what-the-james-webb-telescope-has-found-in-just-3-years

Climate

• open mind on 30-years-of-sea-level-rise
• this is not cool on greenland-ice-loss-update
• Umair Irfan on 2024-record-warm-spain-climate-flood-disaster-valencia
• essays concerning on greening-our-energy-how-soon-looking-back-and-looking-forward-to-2030-and-beyond-a-laypersons-guide
• skeptical science on ClimateAdam-2024-through-the-eyes-of-a-climate-scientist

Andrew Gelman (mainly stats)

• alzabo
  
• stanford-medical-school-professor-misrepresents-what-i-wrote-but-i-kind-of-understand-where-hes-coming-from
  
• the-marginalization-or-jeffreys-lindley-paradox-its-already-been-resolved
  
• addressing-legitimate-counterarguments-in-a-scientific-review-the-challenge-of-being-an-insider
  
• how-to-cheat-at-codenames-cheating-at-board-games-more-generally
  
• those-are-unnormalized-log-probabilities-not-logits-in-your-neural-networks-final-layer
  

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• 2024-in-reading-the-enlightened-economist-prize-shortlist
  
• Sophie Gee on horror-satire-tawdry-wealth-and-postcolonial-critique-5-classics-to-catch-up-on-this-summer
• Craig Hamilton on my-year-in-books
• Tyler Cowen on jeffersons-doge-that-was-then-this-is-now , what-ive-been-reading
• Matt Martens on framed-review
• angry bear on book-review-by-the-one-handed-economist
• New Yorker on best-books-2024
• Joel Eissenberg on every-valley-a-seasonal-book-review

Vox Wonk

• political-distrust-and-populist-alt-view-trap
  
• new-way-price-carbon-understanding-social-cost-carbon
  
• us-military-strength-secures-financial-dominance
  
• causal-claims-economics
  
• heat-heat-stress-productivity-and-adaptation-among-firms
  
• labour-market-transitions-greener-economy
  
• doom-loop-and-default-incentives
  
• labour-market-transitions-greener-economy
  
• one-thousand-day-problem
  
• leveraging-ai-navigate-deglobalisation