Around the Traps 12/9/25

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Christopher Rudge on robodebt-compensation-is-a-win-for-victims-but-now-we-may-never-know-the-full-story
• Ross Gittins on if-youve-been-treating-yourself-more-your-not-alond-heres-why , why-wed-be-mugs-to-cut-rate-of-company-tax , our-future-prosperity-is-bright-weve-hidden-an-ace-up-our-sleave , if-we-care-about-fairness-its-not-well-paid-that-are-the-worry
• Lindsay Dodd on messy-truth-australia-s-reputation-southeast-asia
• Natalie Peng on could-labors-super-tax-reforms-be-headed-for-a-makeover-heres-how-a-redesign-might-work
• Helen Zhang on why-australians-are-realists-china
• Jiwon Kim on peacemaker-pacemaker-playmaker-three-way-formula-engaging-north-korea
• croaking cassandra on another-snippet , tangled-webs , a-former-deputy-governor-on-the-rb-shambles
• Kevin Bonham on how-labor-won-94-seats-off-modest-primary-vote
• Michelle Grattan on sussan-ley-sacks-jacinta-price-after-she-refuses-to-declare-leadership-loyality
• Milad Haghani and David Henscher on private-toll-roads-are-supposed-to-save-taxpayers-money-but-can-have-these-hidden-costs

OZ Climate

• wind-hits-record-147-per-cent-of-state-demand-thanks-to-new-link-and-relaxed-gas-needs
  
• extraordinary-battery-storage-prices-plunge-again-as-wind-and-solar-curtailment-levels-soar 
  
• watt-promises-faster-yess-and-faster-nos-in-breakthrough-for-wind-solar-and-storage-projects
  
• renewables-reach-new-record-high-of-76-4-pct
  
• australias-business-lobbies-seem-happy-to-let-the-country-burn-what-will-federal-labor-do
  
• queensland-lnp-pledges-to-burn-coal-for-many-decades-as-federal-labor-wrestles-with-climate-pledge
  
• bigger-home-batteries-are-taming-the-solar-duck-and-creating-more-room-for-rooftop-pv
  
• cheap-power-to-the-people-could-shift-the-dial-for-renewables-in-the-regions
  
• australias-lost-opportunity-the-good-news-and-the-bad-news-on-wind-energy-capital-costs
  
• John Hawkins on rapid-climate-action-will-come-at-a-cost-according-to-the-business-council-but-experts-say-the-benefits-are-far-larger
• Petra Stack on offshore-wind-australia-energy-transition-so-why-mass-exodus-from-investors

Northern America

• institutional economics on scotus-and-the-bond-market
• noahopinion on  america-is-getting-the-economy-we-voted-for , what-is-an-american , civil-war-is-for-idiots-and-losers
• can we still govern on the-authoritarian-checklist Thanks Nick
• Kenneth Rogoff on americas-coming-crash Thanks Nick
• Peter Draper and Nathan Gray on as-trump-abandons-the-rulebook-on-trade-does-free-trade-have-a-future-elsewhere
• Tyler Cowen on a-few-remarks-on-fed-independence
• Kruggers on the-dangers-of-fiscal-dominance , scott-bessent-sleazy-smearer
• Rebecca Ibarra and Sean Rameswaram on trump-deportation-us-population-shrink
• Brad De Long on on-the-deeply-corrupt-republican-justices
• Menzie Chinn on clifford-winston-academic-toadies-impair-government-performance
• Luke Hunt on trumps-deployment-of-the-national-guard-to-fight-crime-blurs-the-legal-distinction-between-the-police-and-the-military
• Mark Stern on supreme-court-analysis-ice-detention-kavanaugh-sotomayor
• newdeal democrat on scenes-from-the-no-good-rotten-terrible-and-abysmal-august-jobs-report , the-gold-standard-qcew-suggests-there-may-have-been-no-growth-at-all-in-jobs-so-far-this-year
• the conversable economist on interview-with-dean-karlan-us-government-foreign-aid , us-income-inequality-before-taxes-and-many-transfers-census-data
• Jeet Heer on charlie-kirk-shooting-assassination-analysis
• calculated risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-03
• Jared Monschein on charlie-kirks-assassination-is-the-latest-act-of-political-violence-in-a-febrile-united-states
• Karrin Anderson on why-journalists-are-reluctant-to-call-trump-an-authoritarian-and-why-that-matters-for-democracy
• Eric Levitz on charlie-kirk-shooting-trump-radical-left-violence

Europe

• Irna Skubii on soviet-symbolism-returns-russian-diplomacy
• David Kirichenko on ukraine-s-oil-war-threatens-leave-russia-running-empty
• Tyler Cowen on facts-about-norway
• Jennifer Mathers on russia-has-provided-fresh-evidence-of-its-territorial-ambitions-in-ukraine
• the conversable economist on eu-productivity-and-lack-of-integration , predistribution-not-redistribution-in-the-nordic-countries
• Tom Nicholls on russia-reckless-provocation
• Khang Vu on are-there-actually-north-korean-troops-inside-ukraine
• Alex Tabarrok on the-british-war-on-slavery
• Fred Kaplan on poland-russia-drones-trump-putin

Asia

• Adam Simpson on thailand-has-another-new-prime-minister-and-an-opening-for-progress-but-will-anything-change
• Jackson Lopez on vietnam-s-case-what-exactly-target-trump-s-transshipment-tariffs
• Sebastian Maslow on why-did-japanese-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba-resign-and-who-might-replace-him
• Ian Langford on xi-jinping-is-in-a-race-against-time-to-secure-his-legacy-in-china
• Fred Kaplan on trump-qatar-israel-gaza-palestine-war
• Shannon Bosch on can-israel-use-self-defence-to-justify-its-strike-on-qatar-under-the-law
• Scott Lucas on middle-east-leaders-condemn-israels-attack-on-qatar-as-netanyahu-ends-all-talk-of-gaza-ceasefire-expert-qanda
• Julien Oeuillet on taiwan-s-diplomacy-doesn-t-have-come-government
• Chietigi Bajpaee on india-us-relations-demonstrate-fickle-foreign-policies-sticky-relations

Wonk

• the existential republic on i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-facism-they-all -failed Thanks Nick
• Luke Burgis on im-going-to-prison Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on how-a-well-timed-kind-word-can-change-everything
• the conversable economist on what-do-managers-do
• Tyler Cowen on three-accounts-of-modern-liberalism
• Michael Mann and Peter Hotez on science-under-siege-weaponised-disinformation
• Seong-Hyon Lee on china-russia-north-korea-alliance-needs-no-name
• Andrew Dodd and Mathew Ricketson on murdoch-resolves-succession-drama-a-win-for-lachlan-a-loss-for-public-interest-journalism
• noahopinion on are-westerners-turning-back-into-medieval-peasants
• Menzie Chinn on what-new-have-we-learned-about-us-dollar-dominance-as-a-reserve-currency

General

• Jake Newman-Martin et al on australia-has-some-new-marsupial-species-but-theyre-already-extinct
• Marguerite Johnson on the-legend-of-troy-explained

Climate

• David Appell on the-lack-of-peer-review-for-doe-climate
• open mind on bad-science-on-sea-level , how-bonferroni-goes-wrong
• and Then Theres Physics on some-thoughts-about-doing-science
• Umair Irfan on vector-borne-disease-threats-climate-change-brownsville-texas-resistance
• skeptical science on merchants-of-doubt-are-back , fact-brief-has-arctic-sea-ice-recovered , new_research
• Steve Chown on high-tech-plans-to-save-polar-ice-will-fail-new-research-finds
• Peter Newman and Sam Wills on climate-action-can-feel-slow-but-the-fastest-energy-leap-in-history-has-begun

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• weighting-of-evidence-and-conflict-of-interest-at-the-fda-and-elsewhere
  
• this-post-is-not-about-newt-gingrich-and-fox-news-nor-is-it-about-michio-kaku-and-string-theory
  
• hypertext-as-constructed-and-hypertext-as-read
  
• show-dont-tell-chatgpt-5-marginalizing-gelmans-measurment-error-model-in-stan 
  
• survey-statistics-imputation-ii
  
• going-beyond-naive-individualistic-models-of-social-science
  
• howl-after-allen-ginsberg-for-the-ai-headed-hipsters
  
• hot-social-science-topics-20-years-ago-and-hot-social-science-topics-now
  
• Freakometrics on personalised  insurance premiums

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

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• Joel Eissenberg on book-ted-nugent
• Tyler Cowen on take-a-girl-like-you-by-kingsley-amis
• Andrew Gelman on you-learn-about-possible-plagiarism-in-a-literary-work-how-does-that-affect-your-view-of-it-the-a-j-finn-story

Vox wonk

• loose-monetary-policy-dollar-depreciation-and-debt-sustainability-do-not-forget
  
•  when-aid-kills-how-foreign-assistance-can-fuel-political-violence 
• easy-money-easy-spending-new-take-resource-curse
  
• unpacking-us-tech-valuations-agnostic-assessment
  
• artificial-intelligence-office-and-factory-evidence-administrative-software-registry
  
• prudential-instruments-and-recent-inflationary-episode
  
• reaching-public-how-direct-central-bank-communication-anchors-citizens-inflation
  

okay even more of some more things

 Birthday Card

Trump is now saying Epstein and then his estate kept a birthday card even though it was a fake. funny how the signature look like his. I have said previously I do not believe trump dealt in illegal conduct here but there must be more embarrassing stuff there for all the bulldust coming out of the whitehouse. his apologists are even worse!

Israel

Israel bombs a building in Doha because they believe members of Hamas was there. Please note this attempted assassination was because they gloated over october 7. This is sooo against international law it is not funny. 
Also and this is most important there will be no more talks of getting the hostages back.

Nepal

Nepal is hit by large demonstrations. firstly it was about the banning of several social media sites. It has now morphed into anti-government protests about corruption. Quite a few people have died how this will work out no-ne seems to know. Lets hope it ends in a good solution.

some might call this nepalling

Socceroos

The younguns got a run and played well. They passed well, ran into position well and finished well. And we have a specialist freekick taker who is deadly from 30 yards out!  We have yet to test some of the other young players so the ffuture is looking bright thus far.

Ange

big ange has taken over at Nottingham Forest. I think this is a great fit. The team should really enjoy playing Angeball however the only problem is what are the metrics for success. both ange at Spurs and the last NF Manager thought they had good seasons yet both got sacked!

Japan

Japan is looking for a new PM. although Japan is a 'democracy' the party governing rarely changes which is a very bad thing. hopefully this might change.

Grand Juries

M/s Pirro the DA there now in Washington has been denied an indictment by grand juries 7 times. the most famous case being the sandwichman. This has also occurred a few times in LA. This is unheard of in practice and shows how incompetent the DOJ has become under trump

some more couple of things

 Mushroom murders

Two things that have never been resolved. under cross examination the murder showed she was quite intelligent. however the murders were done by a complete moron. It di not take a lot of investigation.

The actual crime led to very painful deaths so the murder would have hated the victims with a passion but it appears the complete opposite was the case.

something is not computing

Senator Price

I have always thought she was vastly over-rated. If Sky after dark think you are a superstar then head for the hills! James Massola puts some meat on the bone that Price is hopeless. She won't apologise and she blames the ABC

US Supreme court

Just when you think they cannot get any worse towards Trump they allow racial profiling. Usually you would think an offices would need a reason for you to provide proof of citizenship in any country. Not in the USA!!

France

This country is in a mess. Admittedly Macron created this by have early parliamentary elections. POssibly do it again eh!

Ukraine

Why are some people sooo stupid. Russia has very much upped the ante in their war. Increasing sanctions won't do anything. Giving Ukraine  the weapons to do damage to russia so much that it completely change the cost/benefit analysis is the only thing Putin understands. If the war ends badly for Putin then his tenure as President looks shaky!

Trump

Whoopsy I almost forgot this. The birthday card Trump said he never sent exists. Fancy that.the latest excuse is it is fake because it is obvious Trump did not draw it. Err but he wrote it and signed it.

This merely confirms Trump believes MAGA are all morons who will believe anything he saays.

A couple of things

 China

A lot of people are worried that China may start a war particularly since the invasion of Ukraine. I am not.

China id now highly integrated in the world economy. It would be very costly to start a war to say invade Taiwan. Any sanctions would hurt China bigtime not to talk about the massive disinvestment by firms there now. It could even lead to the CCP losing power!!

Okay people might point to WW1 where similar conditions in play yet war started. Xi is not as stupid as Trump. He would see all of the original countries were a lot worse off after WW1 finished and he wants to stay in power ( until he dies?)

dictator Dan

Heaps of criticism levelled at former Premier Dan Andrews for attending the ceremony in China. Yeah it was a bit silly BUT what countries were represented and remember Dan di not represent any country.

India, Indonesia, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania etc

Blowing up vessels

The US government decided to blow up a vessel in international waters because they alleged a venezuelan crime gang ( they have renamed a terrorist gang) was attempting to export illegal drugs into the USA.

A few problems

1. no evidence
2. the crime gang is not invo9lved in illegal narcotics
3. there were 11 people on the boat thus reducing the space by a lot of loading any drugs on the boat

Football

We only just beat the Kiwis. It could be Poppa needs more time to develop the youngsters into a team. I hope so however the potential is there. Alas he needs overseas coaches to develop that potential

Harry Nilsson

The late Harry Nilsson made one of the great albums of all time.

Here is  lime in the coconut

Jump into the fire

Around the Traps 5/9/25

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussei,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on ditch-aukus-pillar-one-it-involves-australia-too-much-in-us-strategy Thanks Nick
• Josh Roose on the-sovereign-citizen-movement-is-growing-so-is-the-risk-of-more-violence
• Ross Gittins on if-you-think-you-had-it-harder-back-in-the-day-think-again , the-one-big-reform-no-one-discussed-at-labors-roundtable , if-albanese-has-lost-his-bottle-he-should-retire
• Patrick Commins on australia-well-served-by-rba-inflation-band-but-monetary-policy-impact-may-now-be-exhausted-ex-governors-say
• Jane McAdam on politicians-have-scapegoated-immigration-for-decades-its-time-to-flip-the-script
• Peter Varghese on fallout-australia-us-india-tension
• croaking cassandra on oh-what-a-tangled-web , yes-he-has-given-a-sufficient-explanation , one-more-bit-in-the-timeline , willis-and-the-reserve-bank-board-and-governor , willis-and-the-reserve-bank-board-and-governor , six-months-today
• Dennis Muller on neo-nazis-and-racist-rallies-why-its-important-the-australian-media-call-them-for-what-they-are
• Stella Huangfu on australias-economy-shows-best-result-in-two-years-as-consumer-spending-picks-up
• Daniel Flitton on daniel-andrews-private-statesman-grubby-diplomacy
• Nicki Hutley on australia-scores-a-b--on-its-latest-economic-report-card-its-an-improvement-but-theres-still-a-long-way-to-go
• Sussanah Patton on does-australia-s-us-alliance-doom-our-asian-relationships-fail 
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-trump-tariffs-vos-selections

OZ Climate

• sunshine-state-enjoys-highest-ever-rooftop-solar-output-and-record-levels-of-renewable-curtailment
  
• no-new-wind-slow-transmission-and-a-buyers-strike-why-australia-may-miss-its-renewable-energy-target
  
• act-of-bastardry-queensland-lnp-government-kills-another-giant-wind-project 
  
• this-is-not-inner-city-latte-sipping-lefties-bowen-hails-regions-as-battery-rebate-numbers-surge 
  
• the-rooftop-solar-rabbit-chris-bowen-could-pull-out-of-his-hat 
  
• another-three-big-batteries-and-a-new-solar-farm-enter-grid-management-system
  
• single-queensland-gas-bore-emits-as-much-methane-as-10000-cars-new-study-shows 
  
• long-distance-objectors-force-review-of-giant-battery-project-sited-close-to-sewerage-plant
  
• regulator-says-major-gentailer-inflated-wholesale-electricity-prices-by-66-million-over-nine-months
  
• wind-and-solar-up-coal-down-and-some-notable-battery-records-in-august
  
• exponential-growth-in-big-batteries-soaks-up-excess-solar-eats-into-negative-prices
  
• half-of-all-homes-in-australias-most-advanced-renewable-grid-now-have-rooftop-solar
  

Northern America

• institutional economics on p/the-fed-is-cooked 
• the weekly dish on the-permanent-stain Thanks Nick
• Dylan Scott on trump-cdc-director-monarez-robert-kennedy-jr
• Mike Fox on dc-sandwich-thrower-grand-jury-not-indicted-trump
• Drezners world on donald-trumps-biggest-dumbest-personalist-foreign-policy-flop-yet Thanks Brad
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-turning-medical-science-back-to-1900
• the conversable economist on why-do-americans-work-so-many-hours
• Tyler Cowen on what-are-the-markets-telling-us
• Kruggers on the-bonfire-of-trumps-vanities , yes-america-has-a-housing-emergency, cooking-the-federal-reserves-credibility , why-does-the-right-reject-progress
• Desmog on 85-climate-experts-condemn-trump-climate-report-as-junk-science
• Osita Nwanevu on conservatisms-baton-twirler-william-f-buckley
• Mark Lilla on father-knows-best-william-f-buckley
• Deborah Fuller on how-rfk-jr-s-misguided-science-on-mrna-vaccines-is-shaping-policy-a-vaccine-expert-examines-the-false-claims
• Tom Bartlett on rfk-jr-measles-cdc-victory-lap
• one first on 176-illinois-v-texas
• Elie Mystal on military-lawyers-immigration-judges
• Brad De Long on employment-growth-stalled
• Esther Choo on west-coast-health-alliance-noble-effort-offset-rfk-jrs-damage-cdc
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-republican-partisan-hacks-donald-trump
• Fred Kaplan on department-of-war-trump-hegseth-defense-renaming

Europe

• Roger Farmer on uk-evidence-for-the-laffer-curve
• Mark Pierce on postcard-france-political-system-decline
• Monique Taylor on finland-s-distinctive-credibility-peace-efforts-ukraine
• Joshua Keating on ukraine-war-without-end 
• Fred Kaplan on trump-putin-russian-asset-portugal-president

Asia

• Jean-Loup Samaan on bigger-story-behind-modi-s-china-trip-it-s-not-india-s-tensions-trump
• Simon Leverett on local-journalists-and-fixers-are-dying-at-unprecedented-rates-in-gaza-can-anyone-protect-them
• Annie Kelly on israel-gaza-war-media-palestinian-journalists-killed-cpj
• Neta Crawford on gaza-civilian-death-toll-outpaces-other-modern-wars
• Sanchari Ghose on four-legs-bad-three-legs-better-rescuing-quad-india-japan-australia-grouping
• RN Prasher on nothing-new-india-us-spat-or-delhi-beijing-bonhomie
• Alex Tabarrok on could-china-have-gone-christian
• Tim Lindsay on whats-behind-the-rioting-in-indonesia-and-will-the-much-loathed-political-elite-back-down
• Fred Kaplan on trump-news-palestine-israel-gaza-un-marco-rubio
• Stefan Wolf on what-xi-jinping-hosting-modi-and-putin-reveals-about-chinas-plans-for-a-new-world-order
• Sam Roggeveen on world-dominated-china-it-s-distraction-real-contest

Wonk

• Tomislav Kardum on skewing-the-overton-window-communism-fascism Thanks Nick
• after babel on metas-ai-companion-policy-is-outrageous Thanks Nick
• Alex Duffy on to-improve-llms-coach-them-like-athletes-in-an-arena thanks Nick
• Kruggers on the-economics-of-stagflation-part-3
• Shameek Godara on age-alliances-ending-hedging-rule-order
• Stephen Grenville on world-without-economic-hegemon
• the conversable economist on crypto-stablecoins-and-the-rise-of-tokenization , icymi-journal-of-economic-perspectives-summer-issue-free-online
• Michael Shoebridge on incredible-shrinking-quad
• Tyler Cowen on it-would-take-more-than-one-paper-to-establish-these-claims

General

• Tim Harford on how-a-well-timed-kind-word-can-change-everything
• noahopinion on why-i-left-bloomberg
• Serena Lowe on curious-kids-in-ancient-egypt-did-pyramids-really-have-booby-traps-why-was-treasure-hidden-inside
• Benji Jones on animals-species-unknown-dark-taxa

Climate

• and Then Theres Physics on climate-sensitivity
• renew economy on china-giant-installs-worlds-biggest-offshore-wind-turbine-for-testing
• no hesitations on one-of-two-arctic-sea-ice-trilogies , the-second-of-two-sea-ice-trilogies
• Magali Nehemy on new-study-shows-how-amazon-trees-use-recent-rainfall-in-the-dry-season-and-support-the-production-of-their-own-rain
• skeptical science on climate-sensitivity-attp , ClimateAdam-the-dumbest-climate-denial-ever , new_research
• David Appell on updates-on-sea-ice-extent-at-both-poles
• real climate on climate-scientists-response-to-doe-report
• essays concerning on loading-the-climate-dice-why-chaos-does-not-prevent-climate-change-predictability
• desmog on understanding-albertas-expensive-ideological-war-on-renewable-energy

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• thank-you-perspectives-on-psychological-science-for-finally-getting-your-act-together
  
• survey-statistics-connections-to-experimental-design 
  
• assembling-an-unbiased-jury
  
• bloggings-a-great-way-to-express-your-ideas
  
• generate-but-verify-reconciling-the-evidence-utility-of-chatbots-in-many-settings-with-chatbots-evident-lack-of-understanding
  
• freakometrics on classify compare insure

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• from-toffs-to-asset-strippers-via-buccaneers-and-fat-cats
  
• Brad De Long on the-sledgehammer-and-the-gavel , from-william-bolts-to-jeff-bezos
• Andrew Gelman on its-orwellian , the-story-paradox
• econjeff on book-nine-nasty-words-english-in-gutter , tomorrow-sex-will-be-good-again

Vox Wonk

• aftermath-tariffs
  
•  chinas-electronics-export-juggernaut-and-lessons-us 
• future-jobs-ai-robots-and-jobs-developing-countries 
  
• masculinity-norms-and-their-economic-consequences
  
• public-policy-can-encourage-physicians-practice-underserved-areas
  
• detecting-potentially-harmful-workplace-practice
  
• tariffs-and-us-dollar-depreciations-not-so-surprising-after-all
  
• europes-trade-surplus-international-relative-prices-and-productivity-growth-gap
  
• strategic-autonomy-europe-requires-economic-growth
  

GDP

 Australia's GDP figures were released yesterday. They were okay. consumer spending shot up. housing investment is strong, productivity rose however business investment was weak.

Given GDP has been tepid at best for a while because of higher interest rates this is to be expected. We can only hope investment grows as consumer spending gets stronger.

Two things can be gleaned.

1. We are past the worst of weak growth figures
2. interest rates wil lnot fall as much because of this.

Stephen Grenville on fire

 Stephen Grenville is a former deputy governor of the RBA and he writes semi-regularly for the Lowy Institute.

His latest column is world-without-economic-hegemon.

It won't take long but will be worth it!

some advice for Sussan Ley

 Okay the LNP are really in a funk. They lost bigtime last election and some people like Barnaby Joyce want to stay there by denying climate change.

Last time Dutton tried to portray Albo as a bad liar. It didn't work.  Albo is no Howard!

Portraying Albo as timid or weak would work BUT only if you are not!!

Thus the question is how to make inroads into the Labor government because their majority is too large and bad for democracy.

I really do not have time to reason why but how about targeting these ministers.

• Catherine King
• Amanda Rishworth
• Michele Rowland
• Clare O'Neil
• Anika Wells
• Andrew Giles

It is much easier to attack Albo if some of his key ministers are not performing. He has low standards, he is weak, he is not decisive etc.   

Over time small victories eventually lead to significant swings. ( This is assuming the coalition eventually have a sane climate policy).

at present the coalition has no idea how to attack the government and they are all over the place. In some ways this is understandable and it will take time to develop policies and a strategy but in the short terms attacking weak ministers id=s a good strategy. However it assumes the shadow ministers are up to the job and that is one mighty big assumption!!

Stan sucks

 As a family we have been watching the EPL by watching optus sport. We were well satisfied with it.

Early this year Optus sport announced they were nol onger having the EPL indeed optus sport was going and Stan now had the EPL rights.

My oldest son thus got the streaming for Stan. There is no stan sport. If you want to watch sport you have to get the whole thing.

We didn't like that but put up with it. however after the first week every time we try to watch the EPL all we get is there is a problem and thus no EPL. It matters not what we do we simply cannot get it and stan will not refund any money.

I should add fans are scathing about stan's coverage and they are right.

So I have to miss a season of the EPL. Thanks stan

Around the Traps 29/8/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Stephen Bartos on after-three-days-of-talks-a-fairer-tax-system-is-on-the-agenda-theres-no-shortage-of-ideas 
• Ross Gittins on candles-dont-quite-cut-it-in-powerless-sharehouse , we-need-to-unclog-pipes-of-the-capitalist-system , we-have-arrested-development-of-our-young
• croaking cassandra on reading-grant-robertson , reserve-bank-meeting-the-pm , reserve-bank-treasury-and-willis , a-timeline , weak-minister-weak-institutions
• Keiran Hardy on the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-will-be-proscribed-as-a-terrorist-organisation-what-does-this-mean
• Michelle Grattan on australia-says-iran-was-behind-two-antisemitic-attacks-iranian-ambassador-expelled
• Justin Bergman on qanda-with-kylie-moore-gilbert-this-is-why-iran-is-instigating-terrorism-in-australia
• Nicki Hutley on new-report-highlights-wage-inequality-australia-wealth-gap
• Lydia Khalil on iran-history-exploiting-social-divisions-abroad-saw-opportunity-in-australia

OZ Climate

• 3000-turbines-and-35-solar-farms-new-details-emerge-of-massive-70-gw-project-proposed-for-nullarbor 
  
• developers-sink-plan-for-australias-first-floating-offshore-wind-farm-but-bowen-remains-buoyant 
  
• stunning-success-of-home-battery-boom-will-slash-rooftop-solar-exports-and-reshape-the-grid-again
  
• truths-and-tropes-of-transmission-costs-how-much-are-consumers-really-paying
  
• green-spiky-and-duck-shaped-how-the-last-10-years-has-changed-australias-grid
  
• nelsons-blind-eye-big-gentailers-wont-build-or-contract-solar-and-wind-they-cannot-control
  
• australian-industry-can-ditch-diesel-says-report-but-not-without-ditching-its-subsidy-first
  
• owner-of-australias-biggest-wind-farm-buys-massive-pipeline-of-battery-wind-and-solar-projects
  
• this-australian-utility-will-soon-be-the-first-to-have-more-big-battery-capacity-than-coal
• agl-may-mothball-coal-units-or-shut-them-down-over-weekends-to-make-way-for-solar-hints-at-wind-contract
  
• turbine-shut-downs-back-on-the-table-as-contested-tasmania-wind-farm-gets-federal-green-light
  
• Frank Jotzo on no-room-for-the-timid-setting-australias-2035-emissions-target-is-a-daring-tightrope-act

Northern America

• institutional economics on tariffs-trade-and-measured-economic-freedom
• Sean Rameswaram and Gabrielle Berney on south-park-trump-media-criticism
• the pursuit of happiness on the-fed-gives-up Thanks Tyler
• Tyler Cowen on did-the-united-states-grow-its-way-out-of-wwii-debt , the-history-of-american-corporate-nationalization
• Norm Eisen and Andrew Warren on john-bolton-fbi-trump-raid-search
• Kruggers on we-are-all-lisa-cook , in-the-matter-of-lisa-cook , the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy , why-arent-markets-freaking-out , decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire
• noahopinion on a-few-cultural-thoughts , the-richest-third-world-country
• Brad De Long on a-note-on-the-unusual-procedures-surrounding-the-expiration-of-federal-reserve-gubernatioral-appointments , chaos-moneys-trying-to-fire-fed-governor
• Zeeshan Aleem on trump-polls-approval-ratings-lies-truth-social-post
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-donald-trump-federal-reserve-firing-unitary-executive
• the conversable economist on why-is-productivity-falling-in-the-us-construction-sector
• Michael Wilner on william-pulte-leads-effort-to-accuse-trump-foes-of-mortgage-fraud
• RN Prasher on trump-s-method-not-madness
• Eric Levitz on trump-lisa-cook-federal-reserve-firing
• Angry Bear on highest-homicide-rates-in-2024-cities
• Bret Christophers on whose-fed-independent-central-bank
• John Cassidy on the-enormous-stakes-of-trumps-effort-to-fire-the-fed-governor-lisa-cook
• Quinta Jurecic on trump-habba-illegal
• Jeet Heer on john-bolton-trump-fbi-investigation
• renew economy on what-to-do-with-the-inconvenient-truth-destroy-the-evidence-and-pretend-it-doesnt-exist
• Dylan Scott on trump-cdc-director-monarez-robert-kennedy-jr
• Andrew Prokop on trump-dc-police-takeover-national-police-force-maga
• Liz Anderson on its-not-socialism-its-national-socialism

Europe

• Mark Webber on ukraine-war-what-an-article-5-style-security-guarantee-might-look-like
• noahopinion on europes-crusade-against-air-conditioning
• Natasha Lindtstaedt on why-a-new-iron-curtain-is-being-built-across-europe-this-time-its-to-keep-russia-out
• stumbling and mumbling on the-crisis-of-uk-democracy
• Mark Edele on anchorage-washington-implications-ending-russia-s-war-against-ukraine
• Lisa Martin on greenland-not-sale-open-business
• William Gourley on polls-suggest-this-man-could-become-turkeys-next-president-erdogan-is-doing-everything-to-stop-him

Asia

• Julie Norman on no-end-to-the-violence-as-israel-launches-its-assault-on-gaza-city
• Leonie Fleissman on israels-plan-for-massive-new-west-bank-settlement-would-make-a-palestinian-state-impossible
• Huma Rehman on next-india-pakistan-crisis-could-spiral-out-control
• Shannon Bosch and Joshua Ashton on israels-call-up-of-130-000-reservists-raises-legal-risks-for-dual-citizens-and-their-home-countries
• Danielle Flitton on gap-between-quad-rhetoric-reality
• Ali Mamouri on iran-is-under-pressure-from-australia-at-a-pivotal-moment-time-is-running-out-to-strike-a-nuclear-deal 
• Maha Nassar on israels-killing-of-journalists-follows-a-pattern-of-silencing-palestinian-media-that-stretches-back-to-1967
• Gabriela Bernal on why-fears-about-japan-going-nuclear-are-likely-overblown
• Leoni Connah on kashmir-s-double-burden-climate-change-conflict
• Niko Pasko on seoul-will-struggle-find-currency-pyongyang-talks
• Henry Storey on trump-s-tariffs-are-only-part-problem-indian-manufacturing
• Maximillian Rehm on pragmatism-reigns-japan-south-korea-look-toward-future
• Dina Chhorn on triple-shock-threatens-southeast-asia-s-development-model

Wonk

• Nick Gruen on democracy-the-three-legged-stool , trust-and-the-competition-delusion , democracy-the-three-legged-stool
• Thomas Burke and Jeb Barnes on abundance-liberalism-versus-adversarial-legalism Thanks Nick
• Dan Davies on the-problem-factory-preemptive-risk-aversion-in-infrastructure-planning-and-the-role-of-professional-services Thanks Nick 
• James Panichi on how-the-leopard-changed-its-spots Thanks Nick
• Will Storr on a-crisis-of-mattering Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on how-a-well-timed-kind-word-can-change-everything 
• the conversable economist on does-the-invisible-hand-work-for-honor-too-thought-from-montesquieu 
• Kruggers on the-economics-of-stagflation-part-11
• Danielle Hitch et al on long-covid-is-more-than-fatigue-our-new-study-suggests-its-impact-is-similar-to-a-stroke-or-parkinsons
• Patrick Yeager on why-future-wars-will-be-fought-over-water-supply
• Marta Khonym on in-a-post-truth-world-what-happens-if-we-cant-trust-us-economic-data-any-more
• Alex Tabarrok on resources-for-teaching-tariffs

General

• Avishay Artsy and Sean Waneswaran on mars-bezos-musk-space-race-billionaires

Climate

• skeptical science on fact-brief-are-surface-temperatures-reliable , another-pause , new_research
• Mojtaba Sadegh et al on wildfire-disasters-are-increasingly-in-the-news-yet-less-land-is-burning-globally-heres-why
• and Then Theres Physics on another-pause
• Pintu Mahla on monsoon-flooding-has-killed-hundreds-in-pakistan-climate-change-is-pushing-the-rainy-season-from-blessing-to-looming-catastrophe
• Byrd Pinkerton on camp-century-greenland-ice-sheet-sediment-research-climate-change
• Pep Canadell on the-climate-case-for-planting-trees-has-been-overhyped-but-its-not-too-late-to-fix-it

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• my-thoughts-on-l-a-pauls-transformative-experience
  
• chatbot-still-cant-handle-tic-tac-toe
  
• what-writing-a-failed-rock-paper-scissors-program-taught-me-or-should-have-taught-me-about-sample-size-and-uncertainty 
  
• new-instructor-resources-for-llaudet-and-imais-book-data-analysis-for-social-science
  
• survey-statistics-thomas-lumley-writes-about-interviewing-your-laptop
  
• aiming-your-gatling-guns-in-the-wrong-direction-shooting-the-messenger-for-something-the-messenger-was-never-saying
  
• how-will-should-llms-change-how-organizations-do-strategy
  
• the-mantra-and-mania-of-data-sharing
  
• Freakometrics on the impossible right to make mistakes , in the end who will bear the cost of insurance
• Kaiser Fung on story-first-governing , mta-lowers-revenues-while-upping-stress-on-some-commuters

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• without-nature-there-is-no-economy
  
• the magic of the technology business
• David Leeder on one-track-minds Thanks Nick
• Brad De Long on project-syndicate-is-a-sino-american-synthesis-possible
• noahopinion on book-review-breakneck

Vox Wonk

• interest-rate-and-deposit-run-risk-new-evidence-euro-area-banks-2022-2023-tightening
  
•  crypto-tokenisation-and-future-payments 
• industrial-policy-and-retaliatory-protection-under-wto-lessons-china 
  
• columns/chat-bankman-fried-experiment-llm-ethics-finance 
  
• battlefield-market-how-disruptions-ukraine-affected-grain-price-trends
  
• dangling-fiscal-surveillance-eu-fiscal-policies-2024
  
• federal-reserve-new-administration-and-outlook-economy-and-monetary-policy
  
• words-deeds-incorporating-climate-risks-sovereign-credit-ratings
  
• investor-memory-and-biased-beliefs-evidence-field
  
• non-effect-tariffs-manufacturing-employment
  
• new-currency-war-us-china-digital-rivalry-test-monetary-discipline
  
• financial-sector-and-global-dollar-system
  
• trumpian-tariffs-are-import-substitution-industrialisation-20
  
• how-institutions-interact-exchange-rates-after-2024-us-presidential-election
  

Is the USA a third world country

 Damn. Every time I get an idea someone comes up and beats me.

Read noah smith on the-richest-third-world-country

I cannot get over how dirigiste the US has become.

Think about it.

Trump wants: 

•  to direct private investment
• 'influence' who is the CEO
• tell companies what policies and procedures they must implement
• take an equity stake in public companies
• deport anyone without due process
• bar people from visiting or studying if they criticise Trump or the state of Israel

I could go on but why bother you get the picture and these people have the effrontery to call themselves conservative!

Whoopsy I forgot to mention the Lisa Cook affair. 'Strongmen' always want control over the economy. Why hasn't the market really cranked then you ask. Because they believe the move is illegal. If the Supreme Court overrules the ruling they made early this year to favour Trump yet again then watch for market fireworks

Why aren't any people apologising?

 Since that fateful day when Hams murdered innocent Israeli civilians we have heard the government has allowed anti-semitic sentiments to run rogue. We saw fires and other incidents at jewish establishments.

We now know almost all these incidents were either the result of criminals trying to get leniency in their cases or Iran paying criminals to do damage. In Iran's case we know they are responsible for twop incidents but this will undoubtedly rise.

This all means the so-called anti-semitic surge never really existed. all those people who got into a lather about it ( including the Israeli PM) need to offer apologies for getting it so wrong.

It was suspect in the first place. anti-semitic feeling does not rept. It is always there. There was always something suspect about some of the incidents. Chris Minns please take note!

Why have we not seen an apology then? The reason must be the very same people do not want to admit they were wrong.

On a related issue we saw yesterday Israel bomb a hospital in Gaza not once but twice. This means they deliberately targeted those people attempting to rescue those injured with the first blast. It was a barbaric act. More so when the excuse was a person with a camera was there!!

It aint the first time Israel has has targeted and  murdered journalists.

Israel is now a pariah state and it will as Israel attempts to get rid of all palestinians and become the one state in the area and thus destroying any form of a  Palestinian state. only get worse

Shires Cricket

 I need a break from all this awful news.

I umpired in shires cricket for some time. I also played cricket in Shires ( where I took three hatricks!)

CricketNSW announced without notice they would no longer pay for the umpires in Shires cricket. The clubs now have to find the money.  They have agreed to pay for two umpires in 1st and 2nd grade but only one umpire in 3rd and 4th grade.

This will mean the clubs will have to find an extrav $15k this coming season. At least three clubs are in financial difficulty because of this so the future is uncertain.

There are a number of points to make.

1. How come cricketNSW did not have a transition period for this action. Let us say it cost $250k each season for umpires. I do not know! They could have reduced the payment to $125k this season and then $75k the next season. Their action merely heightens concerns they are facing financial problems.
2. Having merely one person to umpire some games will be very hard for those umpires. I had to umpire a match on the second day by myself because my partner had a stroke. It was an easy match as it was a strong side against a weak side and both sides were well behaved BUT I was mentally exhausted when the match ended and that was 5 or 6 years ago.
3. The rules will have to be changed when there is only one umpire. The umpire must be able to overrule the square leg if he believes the wrong decision was made as occurs on sunday.
4. The Shires umpire association will lose members. Over time the  premium  paid to umpires in Shires will reduce compared to local associations. Umpires will go to local competitions because of this.
5. If any clubs fold then shires will lose the grounds for good. either the local associations will claim them or the councils will get rid of the turf pitches as they are costly to maintain.

I ended umpiring at the right time.

The USA

 Two things occurred over our weekend.

Firstly transcripts of the 'Maxwell interviews' was released. It was embarrassing. Clearly the Deputy of the DOJ had little knowledge of the court case. He let numerous lies/ misleading answers pass through to the keeper. He had no follow up questions. It was very odd Maxwell was not warned of being charged if she lied although given the  interviewer had little knowledge of the subject this perhaps is not surprising. If I did not know better I would think Trump told him to go and  interview her to get certain 'answers' and if they were the 'right' answers she could be moved to another prison. Wow and she was!

John Bolton's house and offices were raided by the FBI supposedly on information provided by the head of the CIA. I would have thought the statute of limitations would be relevant here however tti would not be if this 'investigation' is for performative reasons only. Usually a search comes near the end of an investigation not at the start! I doubt if there will be an indictment.

wow I forgot to note the difference between this raid and the one on trump's home in Florida. In the latter case they outlined which documents they might find and they found them! I wonder if we wil ever see the subpoena in this case!

Around the Traps 22/8/25

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Dennis Muller on bendigo-writers-festival-has-questions-to-answer-over-untenable-code-of-conduct-for-authors
• Nicole Townsend on new-research-shows-wwii-dominates-australians-knowledge-of-military-history-but-big-gaps-remain
• Ross Gittins on want-better-productivity-keep-wages-rising-strongly ,ive-changed-my-mind-about-red-tape-its-well-worth-cutting
• John Hawkins on with-just-three-days-to-inform-the-next-three-budgets-heres-how-chalmers-roundtable-kicked-off
• Richard McGregor on between-china-trump-little-wonder-australia-japan-have-lots-talk-about-even-if-not
• Nicki Hutley on economic-roundtable-winners-and-losers-australia-productivity
• Duygu Yengin on productivity-is-the-buzzword-of-the-week-but-were-not-making-the-most-of-half-the-workforce 
• Sassan Stone on taxpayer-bailouts-are-common-yet-rarely-make-economic-sense-heres-how-to-strike-a-better-balance 
• Jenny Bloomfield on re-inventing-productivity-wheel

OZ Climate

• waratah-australias-most-powerful-battery-smashes-output-record-again
  
• recycle-and-reuse-mandatory-new-rules-to-stop-millions-of-solar-pv-panels-going-into-landfill
  
• network-giant-flags-tipping-point-as-nsw-coal-dominated-grid-charges-towards-90-pct-renewables 
  
• australias-biggest-gas-advocates-are-quietly-swapping-out-peaking-plans-for-batteries 
  
• can-australias-electricity-market-finally-be-truly-efficient-for-consumers 
  
• times-up-solar-recycling-is-finally-on-the-political-agenda-but-is-it-too-late-for-some-investors 
  
• aemo-says-wind-solar-and-storage-keeping-energy-reliability-healthy-despite-leap-in-data-driven-demand 
  
• batteries-soak-up-pv-in-sunny-south-to-smash-charging-record-as-wind-blow-strong-in-sunshine-state 
  
• ausgrid-hopes-new-solar-pilot-can-help-break-the-boundaries-on-narrow-network-limits 
  
• the-solar-farm-that-winds-down-at-dusk-charges-up-for-dinner-and-is-still-generating-at-midnight 
  
• stunning-success-of-home-battery-boom-will-slash-rooftop-solar-exports-and-reshape-the-grid-again 
• Louise Grimmer et al on soft-plastics-recycling-looks-set-to-return-to-supermarkets-cutting-back-on-plastic-would-be-even-better
• Raphael Trouve et al  on climate-change-is-driving-a-silent-sinister-change-in-australias-mountain-ash-forests

Northern America

• institutional economics on the-macro-mob-called
• Brad De Long on hoisted-from-the-archives-trump-does-not-have-the-cognitive-competence-to-do-the-job , dementia-ridden-cognitively-addled-chaos-monkey-causes-chaos-at-alaskan-summit , trump-is-losing-all-his-trade-wars-badly
• Barry Eichengreen on trump-tariffs-exploit-overwhelming-force-like-falklands-war Thanks Nick
• Systematic Hatreds on nixon-won Thanks Nick
• Menzie Chinn on ppi-cpi , guest-contribution-monthly-household-income-estimates-at-the-white-house
• Kruggers on the-economics-of-stagflation-part 1 , iceing-the-us-economy , crime-and-self-promotion , kilowatt-madness
• angry bear on how-bad-is-crime-in-washington-d-c
• Alex Tabarrok on the-japanese-threat
• new deal democrat on the-muddied-historical-picture-of-ppi-vs-cpi , jobless-claims-suggest-our-recent-good-news-has-been-more-unresolved-seasonal-quirks
• the conversable economist on federal-reserve-independence-not-just-a-good-idea-its-the-law
• Ruth Marcus on pam-bondi-profile
• David Frum on show-immigration-caitlin-dickerson
• Brent Christophers on whose-fed-independent-central-bank
• Jonathan Blitzer on a-tale-of-two-jurists-in-the-trump-era
• Cristian Farias on can-donald-trump-police-the-united-states
• noahopinion on moderation-is-good-for-its-own-sake
• uneasy money on grok-karoline-leavitt-and-me
• Jeet Heer on trump-putin-alaska-ukraine-russia-foreign-policy
• Michael Steele on trump-statistics-crime-economy-health
• Zack Beauchamp on trump-dc-immigration-authoritarian-stephen-miller-democracy
• Liz Anderson on states-of-resistance
• Ed Pilkington on justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
• Andrew Prokop on john-bolton-fbi-raid-trump-retribution
• Fred Kaplan on trump-russia-putin-ukraine-zelensky-peace-talks

Europe

• Pedro Martins on russia-central-asia-are-quietly-embracing-taliban
• Mathew Sussex on putin-got-the-red-carpet-treatment-from-trump-where-does-this-leave-ukraine
• Iona Main on georgian-dream-now-nothing-nightmare
• Mick Ryan on why-putin-smiled-broadly-he-left-his-alaska-encounter-trump
• Thomas Wright on trump-ukraine-russia-peace
• Sonia Mycak on zelensky-leaves-washington-with-trumps-security-guarantees-but-are-they-enough
• Joshua Keating on ukraine-land-swap-territory
• Mary Harris on trump-putin-zelensky-russia-ukraine-invasion
• stumbling and mumbling on achieving-political-change
• Frank Ledwidge on kharkiv-what-i-saw-in-ukraines-unbreakable-eastern-capital

Asia

• UN women Australia on afghanistan-ten-ways-taliban-vanishing-women-public-life
• Clare Corbould on theres-no-such-thing-as-someone-elses-children-omar-el-akkad-bears-witness-to-the-destruction-of-gaza-and-the-wests-quiet-assent
• John Strawson on israels-opposition-against-benjamin-netanyahu-but-not-yet-for-peace-with-the-palestinians
• Amin Saikal on how-can-western-countries-back-up-palestine-recognition-with-action-here-are-4-ways-to-pressure-israel
• Khang Vu on kim-jong-un-builds-destroyers-his-grandfather-never-could-what-ends
• Faisal Edroos on libya-senior-official-secret-talks-israel-resettle-palestinians-gaza
• Daniel Flitton on how-india-us-relations-unravelled-trump-modi-timeline 
• Sanchari Ghosh on why-has-india-reimagined-its-role-vishwaguru-vishwamitra
• Hussein Ibish on palestinian-state-west-recognition
• Ran Porat on with-eyes-on-re-election-netanyahus-fights-with-world-leaders-aim-to-distract-from-many-political-problems
• Peninah Kansiime and Giselle Woodley on israel-is-on-notice-for-using-sexual-violence-against-palestinians-its-all-too-common-as-a-war-tactic
• Hussein Agha and Robert Malley on what-killed-the-two-state-solution

Wonk

• asterisk on why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on cautionary-tales-genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world-2
• the conversable economist on using-royalty-payments-to-track-technological-leadership , voltaire-on-the-civility-of-markets , in-praise-of-editors , some-economics-of-leasing-antiquities
• Tyler Cowen on a-median-voter-theory-of-right-wing-populism , twin-studies-data-and-the-link-between-social-media-and-well-being , the-decline-in-reading-for-pleasure
• Kruggers on ai-is-power-hungry , what-happens-if-ai-hits-an-energy
• noahopinion on the-us-china-competition-is-on-pause
• Declan Humphreys on ai-free-from-bias-and-ideology-is-a-fantasy-humans-cant-organise-data-without-distorting-reality
• Alex Tabarrok on china-versus-the-us-in-the-competition-for-global-talent

General

• Phillip Almond on not-quite-angels-why-we-should-stop-calling-these-small-winged-children-cherubs
• Orsola De Marco on astronomers-have-glimpsed-the-core-of-a-dying-star-confirming-theories-of-how-atoms-are-made
• Laura Driessen on whats-a-black-moon-heres-why-its-worth-looking-up-at-the-sky-this-week

Climate

• Melanie MacGregor on the-global-plastics-treaty-process-has-fallen-flat-heres-what-went-wrong-and-how-you-can-help
• skeptical science on factheck-trump-climate-report-100-mistakes-or-misleading-claims , is-permafrost-really-a-climate-time-bomb , new_research
• Adam Morton  on voices-arguing-climate-crisis-action-is-a-waste-of-time-are-wrong
• Nerilie Abram et al on from-sea-ice-to-ocean-currents-antarctica-is-now-undergoing-abrupt-changes-and-well-all-feel-them
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Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• pivoting-to-new-funding-sources-in-light-of-new-government-regulations
  
• two-cool-math-lectures-by-yuval-peres
  
• steering
  
• the-edlin-factor-strikes-again-the-crown-jewel-of-the-nudge-literature-finds-its-effect-cut-by-76 
• survey-statistics-answers-from-the-bls 
  
• i-guess-my-question-is-how-bad-must-it-be-before-retraction-becomes-appropriate 
  
• for-which-cases-does-ai-help-with-classification-medical-diagnosis-example
  
• the-folk-theorem-of-statistical-computing-fake-data-simulation-as-posterior-predictive-checking
  
• freakometrics on the (non)ethics of capitalism , disentangled deep smooth bootstrapfor fair imbalanced regression

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• econjeff on squanto-by-andrew-lipman , mr-smith-goes-to-prison-by-jeff-smith , book-voltage-effect-by-john-list , book-learn-to-write-badly-how-to-succeed-in-the-social-sciences
• John Quiggin on if-something-cant-go-on-forever-it-will-stop
• Tyler Cowen on capitalism-a-global-history-by-sven-beckert

Vox Wonk

• silver-spoon-becoming-more-important-netherlands
  
• how-wage-inequality-affects-labour-movement 
• adjusting-productivity-carbon-emissions-new-perspective-growth-slowdown
  
• revisiting-consequences-job-displacement
  
• how-donald-trump-should-have-tackled-us-trade-deficit 
  
• fentanyl-transnational-vector-violence
  
• exit-costs-are-entry-costs-why-india-needs-ease-exit-barriers-manufacturing-firms
  
• why-some-countries-win-world-trade-unpacking-export-competitiveness
  
• how-update-eu-merger-guidelines
  
• information-and-labour-market