Trump in trouble

 Donald Trump is in trouble. 

Excuse me for not being surprised. I wrote here that on winning the election he would be in trouble because his economic policy was incoherent.

Let us go through this shall we.

Tariffs

Tariffs increase costs and therefore prices. It leads to consumers having to pay higher prices after the tariffs are implemented. It leads to industry becoming more inefficient because of a permanently higher cost structure. The political problem is inflation rises from what is was and no amount of gaslighting will solve this

Deportations

This leads to a lower labour force. it means some industries such as agriculture and building face problems in getting labour. The problem here is hardened criminals who are undocumented  immigrants are few and far between. They are either in gaol or hard to find because they are criminals. It is quite costly to find and get them. Thus this administration gets the low hanging fruit of undocumented immigrants who have committed NO crimes. Lying about how you get these people and being unlawful merely exacerbates this problem. This explains why Trump is under water on immigration!!

The University Sector

They have been hit in three areas. They have been hit with overall funding. They have been hit with specific funding with regard to research particularly health research. finally overseas students have been targeted on their political views. If you have been critical of trump or supported palestinian human rights then you will not be able to study in the USA and if you are there at present you might get arrested 

Billionaires

It aint a great look when you give large tax cuts to billionaires but cut spending to those less well off. It gets worse when you and your family are making bucket loads since gaining office.

Health Care

People are only now getting their health care bills for next year and they have risen a lot. You cannot criticise ACA if you have no alternative.

It Deja Vu all over again

People are only now remembering how chaotic the first Trump administration was. Last time has had some adults in the room. This time around he has none.  Hegeth, Bondi , Patel etc are very good examples of very incompetent people in charge. People also forgot Trump is not very good at politics. He was very unpopular last time and thus far he is even more unpopular.

I was always very confident there would be a substantial vote against Trump in the mid-terms. I remain so. Just remember Trump can never admit he ever gets things wrong.

Around the Traps 28/11/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Milad Haghani et al on aircraft-noise-from-new-runways-will-hit-thousands-more-homes-australia-needs-fairer-solutions
• croaking cassandra on treasury-on-tax , trade-nz-vs-australia , scattered-mps-points
• Stephen Bartos and John Hawkins on inflation-jumps-in-october-adding-to-pressure-on-government-to-make-budget-savings
• Greg Jericho on the-latest-inflation-figures-offer-no-joy-except-to-the-gas-producers-whose-windfall-profits-remain-largely-untouched
• Zac Gross on apras-first-order Thanks Stephen Kirchner
• Justine Bell-James on long-sought-environmental-law-reform-is-finally-here-but-will-the-compromise-deal-actually-protect-nature
• Sarah Cameron and Ian McAlister on better-policies-better-leader-new-study-reveals-why-labor-won-the-2025-federal-election

OZ climate

• capacity-investment-scheme-will-be-a-failure-if-projects-arent-built-and-theres-a-problem-with-wind
• australias-most-powerful-battery-still-seeking-answers-for-transformer-failure-to-be-offline-for-maintenance
  
• big-solar-grabs-record-30-6-pct-share-of-australias-main-grid-before-being-shunted-aside-by-rooftop-pv
  
• australia-needs-a-new-wind-farm-every-month-to-meet-2030-target-cefc-boss-says
  
• wind-project-developers-propose-accelerated-payments-to-near-neighbours-but-theres-a-catch
  
• big-batteries-hit-world-leading-40-pct-share-of-evening-demand-in-stunning-new-record-for-south-australia
  
• a-completely-new-world-major-new-big-battery-deal-signals-a-new-energy-market-order
  
• rooftop-pv-is-eating-the-energy-industrys-lunch-now-big-solar-wants-to-hoe-into-coal-generators-dinner
  
• australia-doesnt-have-to-choose-between-energy-affordability-and-emission-reductions
  
• we-need-a-reality-check-on-the-future-of-fossil-gas-with-households-already-racing-for-the-exit
  
• off-grid-gold-miner-achieves-record-renewables-with-101-consecutive-hours-with-engines-off
  
• new-worlds-largest-sand-battery-to-double-the-size-of-current-record-holder
  
• another-wind-project-nears-drought-breaking-financial-close-as-snowy-signs-long-term-contract
  
• Zoe Richards on we-knew-ningaloos-coral-bleaching-was-severe-but-what-we-found-6-months-later-was-still-a-shock

Northern America

• Astead Herndon and Cameron Peters on zohran-mamdani-donald-trump-oval-office-meeting-nyc-queens
• Jill Fillipovic on marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-epstein-maga-women-feminism
• John Quiggin on musks-last-grift
• Kruggers on vibecessions-part-ii , the-trump-trade-is-unraveling , doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assault-on-decency-and-privacy , warning-the-fed-cant-rescue-ai ,getting-ready-to-party-like-its-2008
• Bruce Wolpe on trumps-attacks-are-worsening-why-is-he-becoming-even-more-vengeful
• the conversable economist on are-the-entry-level-jobs-drying-up-for-young-adults , us-poverty-and-policy , origins-of-thanksgiving
• Cameron Peters on comey-james-cases-lindsey-halligan-us-attorney-kelly-investigation
• Mark Stern on comey-lindsey-halligan-tish-james-fake-prosecutor
• Dahlia Lithwick on doj-epstein-maxwell-interview-emails-fail-todd-blanche
• Daniel Flitton on america-in-the-age-of-envoy
• Joshua Keating on terrorism-maduro-venezuela-antifa
• Fred Kaplan on trump-28-point-plan-ukraine-russia-steve-witkoff-leak
• Missy Ryan et al on mark-kelly-military-justice-trump-hegseth
• Mick Ryan on kabul-kyiv-trump-s-pattern-clear-negotiate-enemies-sideline-allies
• noahpinion on bad-education-is-a-terrible-way-to-fight-inequality
• Russell Berman on indiana-redistricting-republican-trump
• Anette Gordon-Reed on jefferson-divided
• Ariana Aspuru and Noel King on justice-department-donald-trump-pam-bondi-enemies-retribution

Europe

• Georgi Engelbrecht on great-aspirations-examining-russia-s-role-southeast-asia
• Simon Goodman and Rahul Sambaraju on is-racism-becoming-more-acceptable-in-the-uk
• Elona Zhona on eu-processes-move-years-kosovo-also-needs-partners-who-move-months
• Mathew Sussex on how-the-trump-administration-tried-to-sell-ukraine-a-diplomatic-debacle
• Joshua Keating on ukraine-peace-deal-putin-russia
• Anna Hansen on how-russia-tried-manipulate-moldova-s-election-what-it-reveals
• Chris Dillow on the-fiscal-challenge
• Fred Kaplan on trump-ukraine-28-point-peace-plan-russia-rubio
• James Skinner and Jamie Hill on how-englands-premier-league-is-trying-to-stop-footballs-financial-arms-race-without-a-salary-cap
• Simon Shuster on ukraine-zelensky-russia-trump-peace-land-red-line
• Joshua Yaffa on what-are-putins-ultimate-demands-for-peace-in-ukraine

Asia

• Ausma Bernot on wechat-is-now-a-frontline-policing-tool-in-china-heres-what-my-research-found
• Lisa Singh on quiet-strength-regional-friends-pitch-issues-based-coalitions
• Shanthie D'Souza on modi-courts-putin-eye-trump-s-disapproval
• Apoorba Banerjee on southeast-asian-manufacturing-no-longer-immune-geopolitics
• Jane Hardy on what-i-learned-about-north-korea-s-nuclear-paranoia-pyongyang
• Sari Bashi on gaza-the-threat-of-partition

Wonk

• Ashley Crawley on are we not catholics too Thanks Nick
• Mark Dalton on regulations-compliance-cost-barriers-to-entry Thanks Nick
• Ari Adut on democracy-as-theatre Thanks Nick
• institutional economics on tariff-shocks-are-aggregate-demand-shock
• Awni Etaywe on violent-extremists-wield-words-as-weapons-new-study-reveals-6-tactics-they-use
• Tim Harford on taking-a-swipe-at-dating-apps
• RN Prasher on cheap-weapons-reshape-character-war
• Robert Walker and Georgia Hammersly on world-proves-thirstier-ever-energy
• Milad Haghani et al on the-hong-kong-high-rise-fire-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-evacuate-in-an-emergency
• Katherine Teh on critical-minerals-why-fast-tracking-undermines-democratic-legitimacy
• Jed Rackoff on its-a-racket-cryptocurrency

General

• Jennifer Power on does-masturbating-really-help-menopause-symptoms-new-research-says-yes
• Tyler Cowen on what-is-opera
• Beth Driscoll on should-we-get-over-print-books-in-the-digital-age-or-are-they-more-precious-than-ever
• Luke Johnson on 100-years-on-t-s-eliots-the-hollow-men-is-a-poem-for-our-populist-moment

Climate

• Jacqueline Peel on this-years-climate-talks-saw-real-progress-just-not-on-fossil-fuels
• skeptical science on fact-brief-sun-2 , new_research
• essays concerning on climate-shaming-3-0
• renew ecconomy on brazils-cop-of-truth-fails-on-fossil-fuels-and-science-now-its-bowens-turn-to-take-centre-stage
• David Appell on berkeley-earths-october-and-crimes-against-humanity
• Shanai Sanai and Ambarish Karmalkar on sea-level-doesnt-rise-at-the-same-rate-everywhere-we-mapped-where-antarcticas-ice-melt-would-have-the-biggest-impact

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• who-wants-no-kid-vax-law
  
•  the-limits-of-ethical-ai
• the-signal-to-noise-ratio-in-statistics
  
• who-has-the-lowest-erdos-bacon-epstein-number
  
• some-thoughts-on-empirical-distributions-of-z-scores
  
• problems-with-the-so-called-gender-equality-paradox
  
• survey-statistics-quantity-vs-quality
  
• the-purpose-of-science-vs-the-purpose-of-scientists
  
• kroger-recall-update-full-list-of-product-warnings-across-18-states
  
• effective-sample-size
  
•  larry-summers-ken-starr-jeffrey-epstein-and-everyone-else
• heres-an-idea-for-not-getting-tripped-up-with-default-priors-2
  
• freakometrics on insurers AI and systematic risk
• Kaiser Fung on light-entertainment-pi-orities

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• Maya Krisnan on what-we-call-progress Thanks Nick
• Tyler Cowen on best-non-fiction-books-of-2025 , the-age-of-disclosure
• Dennis Muller on airbrushing-and-exhortations-ita-buttrose-reflects-on-her-life-in-media-well-some-of-it
• Menzie Chinn on clifford-winston-market-corrections-not-government-interventions

Vox Wonk

• when-loss-strikes-twice-health-shocks-and-household-financial-distress 
  
• labour-market-institutions-ai-era-need-verified-employment-records
  
• financial-fragmentation-vulnerability-euro-area-bond-markets
  
• then-and-now-look-back-and-ahead-us-federal-budget
  
• unintended-consequences-export-restrictions
  
• how-financial-authorities-best-respond-ai-challenges
  
• granular-origins-inflation
  
• economic-value-nations-create-others-relative-domestic-gains
  

A Bad CPI

The CPI was released yesterday. It is the first fair dinkum monthly CPI.

It was bad. It rose stronger than expected. Thus the RBA will stay put on rates as they should.

HERE is some good commentary

HOWEVER it is a new series. It will take time to be broken in. The RBA has already said it will take more notice of the quarterly CPI.

I have to say both the last quarterly number and this number is at odds with business surveys which say inflation is okay.

This simply means you wait until you are sure where is inflation is and heading.

renewable energy

 Renew energy has some interesting articles.

• big-solar-grabs-record-30-6-pct-share-of-australias-main-grid-before-being-shunted-aside-by-rooftop-pv     Thus rooftop solar is even taking market share from big solar let alone coalstations! On the positive side more batteries get full
  
• australia-needs-a-new-wind-farm-every-month-to-meet-2030-target-cefc-boss-says   We need to get cracking od building new windfarms ( and solar farms.)
  
• australias-most-powerful-battery-still-seeking-answers-for-transformer-failure-to-be-offline-for-maintenance  We still do not know what occurred
  
• four-hour-big-battery-to-be-built-next-to-australias-biggest-wind-farm This makes obvious sense
  
• new-transmission-towers-are-crucial-for-renewables-but-contentious-heres-where-they-should-go wow I didn't know about this
  
• what-will-night-time-electricity-generation-look-like-in-2030  so interesting
  

All in all positive but work needs to be ddone

Is Trump a russian agent

 The US's 28 point peace plan is out and it looksl ike it was written by Russia.

See:

• Joshua Keating
• Fred Kaplan and again
• Mathew Sussex

Perhaps Witkoff has been a russian agent all along.

Why does a country that was invaded have to be limited in their defence force? Why do they have to give away territory they hold. Unbelievable

It is no wonder this garbage came from a property developer with NO foreign affairs experience who has no State department to assist him ( his choice).

Pardon the french but the world needs to come together and tell Trump to get stuffed!!!@

the 1st test was a disgrace

 I was soo looking forward to the 1st test and then I was let down.

On the first day we saw pathetic batting. The bowling was moderate to very good. The poms leant nothing from their woeful display in the first innings. It was no surprise the pommy bowlers could not bowl well again given they had little rest for both their physical and emotional wellbeing.

I have some coaching tips

When facing a left arm bowler who is not swinging the ball then do not drive. Wait for a short ball outside the offstump and then cut it. If it is on legstump then either play off the hip or glance it depending on the length.

If a right hand bowler is bowling 4th or 5th stump either leave the ball alone or take a guard on off stump. Even then remember to drive a ball your foot has to be at the ball and your head over it.

When bowling to a batsman who is suspect to a fast bouncer like Head is use the bouncer sparsely. To get a batsman out you have to get them wondering what ball is coming next.

Right. The Poms are gone. They wil lnot come back after that. They had the match on a platter and lost it badly by not learning.

The other thing is their fast bowlers do not back up. Archer is good for the first match but not after that as the India test series showed. The other bowlers are the same.

Their batsmen should thrive here. in the first innings they showed how to play Boland and then forgot all about it. It reminded me of Pope in India.

I am soooo dissapointed.

Around the Traps 21/11/25

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Brian Oliver on asbestos-has-been-found-in-childrens-coloured-sand-whats-the-risk-to-kids
• Peter Breadon and Elizabeth Baldwin on hospitals-are-under-pressure-these-changes-could-save-1-2-billion-a-year-and-fund-160-000-extra-hospital-visits
• Aude Bernard et al on yes-migration-to-australia-is-up-but-new-figures-show-most-migrants-do-not-become-citizens
• Jenny Buchan on franchise-businesses-have-long-been-plagued-by-scandals-dominos-is-just-the-latest
• John Hawkins on years-in-the-making-the-first-complete-monthly-inflation-report-is-almost-here
• Roger Dargaville on which-policies-would-face-the-chopping-block-under-the-coalitions-retreat-from-net-zero
• croaking cassandra on an-mpc-speaking , the-new-governor-and-those-responsible-for-her
• Greg Jericho on wages-are-now-barely-growing-faster-than-inflation
• Janine Dixon on real-wages-have-grown-just-over-the-past-year-but-theyre-still-down-near-2011-levels

OZ climate

• Mark the Graph on labors-announcables-vs-architecture , electoral-calculus-coalitions-net-zero
• Adam Morton on coalition-net-zero-emissions-claims-factcheck-electricity-price-power-bill-cost
• Patrick Commins on are-australians-really-paying-more-for-electricity-than-other-countries
• Alison Reeve on yes-your-energy-bills-have-gone-up-turning-net-zero-into-a-culture-war-will-send-them-higher
• Lisa Cox on artificial-intelligence-data-centre-australia-solar-farm-possibly-unparalleled
• a-culture-of-fear-bushfire-survivor-tells-senate-inquiry-how-climate-misinformation-fuels-trauma-and-silences-voices
  
• australias-most-renewable-grid-sets-spectacular-new-wind-record-as-it-awaits-word-on-cop-hosting-bid
  
• local-networks-say-they-can-save-billions-slash-gas-use-and-create-breathing-room-in-dash-to-replace-coal
  
• over-my-dead-body-planning-minister-rejects-any-chance-of-approval-for-cancelled-wind-project
  
• a-perfect-failure-transmission-tower-collapses-in-the-name-of-stronger-renewable-grids
  
• every-component-of-my-life-was-attacked-how-wind-farm-misinformation-tore-community-apart
  
• are-renewable-zones-solving-solar-and-wind-grid-connection-problems-or-making-them-worse
  
• big-battery-told-not-to-charge-as-rooftop-solar-repeatedly-pushes-grid-demand-below-zero
  
• four-hour-big-battery-to-be-built-next-to-australias-biggest-wind-farm
  
• aemo-wants-five-years-warning-on-coal-plant-closures-to-fix-fundamental-mismatch-in-pace-of-energy-transition
  

Northern America

• institutional economics on gap-filling-us-inflation-and-employment
• Felix Martin on us-stablecoin-power-play-could-epically-backfire Thanks Nick
• Kruggers on vibecessions-part-i , the-plutocrats-who-cried-commie , reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade , the-vibecession-deepens 
• Tyler Cowen on why-are-us-clinical-trials-so-expensive , john-cochrane-understands-the-elasticity-of-supply
• Christian Paz on republican-latino-immigration-economy-support-trump-politics-deportation
• Alex Tabarrok on illegal-immigrants-didnt-break-the-housing-market-bad-policy-did
• Jordan Rubin on james-comey-grand-jury-disclosure-judge-trump
• Joshua Keating on gaza-hamas-fighters-tunnels-underground-ceasefire
• Andrew Prokop on jeffrey-epstein-files-scandal-explained-trump-giuffre
• noahpinion on housing-is-at-the-heart-of-americas-problem , the-economics-theory-that-could-have-saved-trump
• the conversable economist on us-tariff-revenues-in-perspective , do-exclusionary-preferences-explain-why-some-americans-happy-about-paying-for-tariffs
• Brad De long on just-what-do-trumps-trade-deals-consist-of? nothing , more-lies-about-trade-tariffs-from-the-chaos-monkeys
• Jeet Heer on trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-epstein
• Andrew Warren on lindsey-halligan-james-comey-prosecution-grand-jury
• Mark Stern on texas-gerrymander-judge-soros-trump-crazy

Europe

• Graham Quillette on a-journalism-of-deception-bbc-deborah-turness-tim-davie Thanks Nick
• Nicholas Bloom  et al on economic-impact-brexit Thanks Nick
• noahpinion on eurocope
• the conversable economist on the-eu-and-the-hard-lessons-of-neglecting-growth
• Tyler Cowen on was-brexit-worse-than-we-had-thought
• Alexander Korolev on by-delaying-a-decision-on-using-russias-frozen-assets-for-ukraine-europe-is-quietly-hedging-its-bets
• Rob Manwaring and Emily Foley on is-the-uk-headed-for-a-new-prime-minister
• Stefan Wolf and Tetyana Malyarenko on ukraine-and-europes-weakness-exposed-as-us-and-russia-again-negotiate-behind-kyivs-back
• Ferdinand Mount on flipping-britains-postwar-script-blue-jerusalem-kit-kowol
• Chris Bertram on core-protection
• Joshua Keating on trump-ukraine-peace-plan-zelenskyy
• Fred Kaplan on trump-28-point-ukraine-peace-plan-russia-putin

Asia

• noahpinion on chinas-people-are-on-a-treadmill
• Abhijnan Rej on terrorism-returns-delhi-troubling-new-profile
• Karryl Trajano on can-asean-secure-quantum-future
• Shahzad Uddin on bangladesh-signals-that-no-leader-is-above-the-law-by-sentencing-sheikh-hasina-to-death

Wonk

• Ian Montgomery on forget-davos-try-kilkenny Thanks Nick
• Nathan Pinkowski on postliberalisms-reluctant-godfather Thanks Nick
• cracks in post-modernity on the-rights-co-opting-of-post-liberalism Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on the-silver-bullet-fallacy
• Daniel Byman on left-wing-terrorism-returning
• the conversable economist on dishwashers-and-the-24-7-time-constraint
• Shanie D'Souza on reality-check-brics-lofty-dedollarisation-agenda
• Henry Yep on delay-weapon-fighting-winning-clock
• noahpinion on the-future-of-war-is-the-future-of-society

General

• Danielle Le Lagadec and Catherine Hungerford on 5-health-benefits-of-line-dancing-according-to-science

Climate

• David Appell on jma-october25-was-3rd-warmest-oct
• Asma Aziz on this-widely-used-chart-makes-the-clean-energy-switch-seem-much-harder-than-it-actually-is
• ocean acidification on pathways-to-a-safer-planet
• skeptical science on ClimateAdam-why-the-climate-crisis-is-a-health-crisis , new_research
• Christian Downie on brazil-is-trying-to-stop-fossil-fuel-interests-derailing-cop30-with-one-simple-measure
• Andrew King and Aditya Sengupta on what-do-we-know-about-climate-change-how-do-we-know-it-and-where-are-we-headed
• Ryan Neelam on climate-change-compromise-progress-heart-amazon
• ocean acidification on carbon-rich-waters-are-becoming-even-more-acidic-as-atmospheric-co2-levels-rise

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• the-density-of-fraud
  
• sociology-of-science-what-does-it-take-for-erroneous-or-fraudulent-claims-to-take-hold
  
• a-borgesian-blog-idea-and-nothing-to-do-with-forking-paths
  
• the-aristocrats
  
• under-what-sort-of-systematic-reporting-errors-will-science-be-self-correcting-or-not-and-do-gardening-programs-reduce-obesity
  
• survey-statistics-sampling-the-sample
  
• this-guys-mad-about-fake-research-and-he-should-be-research-incompetence-research-fraud-and-the-promotion-of-fraudulent-or-incompetent-work-these-are-not-victimless-crimes
  
• three-meta-principles-of-statistics-the-information-principle-the-methodological-attribution-problem-and-different-applications-demand-different-philosophies
  
• what-do-you-think-is-the-ideal-number-of-children-for-a-family-to-have-two-different-statistical-measurement-challenges-arise-from-this-one-question-on-the-general-social-survey
  
• freakometric on the three pillars of fairness in pricing , decomposing direct and indirect biases in linear models under demographic parity constraint, insuring to achieve emancipation
• Kaiser Fung on avinashs-scoring-rubric-for-data-visualization , more-than-a-penny

Dianne Coyle (quirky + book reviews)

• reshuffle-or-how-productivity-happens
  
• Tyler Cowen on the-science-of-second-chances , best-fiction-of-2025
• Ingrid Robeyns on online-discussion-on-lisa-herzogs-the-democratic-marketplace
• Amy Sorkin on if-the-legal-campaigns-against-donald-trump-had-ended-differently

Vox Wonk

• european-unions-new-fiscal-rules-fine-line-between-brilliant-masterpiece-and-another
  
•  monetary-policy-transmission-through-cross-selling-banks 
• rewiring-trade-warming-world-how-cop30-can-turn-climate-goals-trade-rules 
  
• elvis-ghost-jordans-airness-and-new-economics-publicity-rights
  
• assessing-commissions-multiannual-financial-framework-proposal-first-order-principles 
  
• credit-and-product-innovation-emerging-markets-evidence-india
  
• public-money-private-innovation-how-government-funding-built-and-sustains-americas
  
• ai-financial-sector-supervision-new-evidence-emerging-market-and-developing-economies
  
• unbearable-lightness-sovereign-greenium
  
• beyond-military-sales-market-premium-dual-use-research-and-development
  
• european-defence-governance-and-financing 
  
• conflict-dismissals-evidence-separations-mutual-agreement-france
  
• continued-growth-despite-challenging-environment-commissions-autumn-2025-forecast 
  
• innovation-digital-economy-architecture-ensuring-regulatory-simplification-drives 
  
• tariff-avoidance-and-import-measurement-lessons-first-us-china-trade-war 
  
• pension-design-and-general-public-finances-beyond-baseline-actuarial-neutrality
  

The LNP's energy policy

 Okay we do not know but we can take an educated guess.

nuclear power

No Public ownership but bans are lifted. good so far but given nuclear power is much more expensive than coal and takes twice as long to build this becomes an academic argument.  Also very important baseload power in incompatible with rooftop solar.

coal powered power

 The government would provide support in financing thus  lowering borrowing costs. They would 'sweat' out exing assets.There is no intertest from the public sector in building coal fired power stations. They take 8 years to build , even new ones break s down on hot days ( ironic eh), they take too lomn ng to start and shut down, they need to be going 24 hours a day, they only make money at night ( solar duck curve) and are incompatible with rooftop solar.  I should also add units breaking down is what AEMO worries about every summer re blackouts.

Sweating out existing assets is mad. This is one of the reasons energy costs are so high. This would make it worse. Lowering borrowing costs is academic when no-one wants to build any plants.

gas

They want to flood the country with gas to ensure prices fall. Unless you legislate this it won't happen and what happens when this hits overseas contracts.compaines are put in an invidious position.

renewables

This sector will be put on hold

This is all mad and like under Dutton I very doubt this would ever be applied but it adds to uncertainty.

the killing season

 This time of the year is now known as the killing season because this was when rudd was first knifed as PM.

We now have liberal leaders being lined up to be tossed aside.

Federally Sussan Ley looks a dead woman walking.Under pressure she has made some unforced errors and now the wagons are circling as the polls simply are very bad and there appears no improvement. the right wing clearly has the numbers but neither Andrew Hastie nor Angus Taylor has yet to make a move. ( If either are the answer then you clearly have asked the wrong question!)  The Liberals have a lack of talent and no-one on their side can make a dent on an unimpressive government. Possibly the best example of the is Ted O'Brien who was woeful in the last parliament and responsible for their disastrous nuclear policy is now deputy leader.

The irony is whoever leads the party must surely get a a large swing at the nest election. It could be a 'corbyn' swing. People will swing when they know the government cannot change

In NSW Mark Speakman will be replaced by whom we do not know but the whispers are now shouts. It is hard to be Opposition leader after being in government for so long. Speakman was on a hiding to nothing and Minns is impressive.

Victoria is another thing all together. how the ALP is stil lthe government is beyond me. It appears if the ALP is bad the Liberals are worse so they change leaders in the hope of winning. Victoria desperately needs a new government!!!

US Politics

 How can we ignore the gross incompetence of the Comey and James grand jury indictments. This could be the FOURTH person yes read that again  Trump has had declared to legally in position to be shown quite the opposite.

But it gets worse. She 'conducted' the last part of the grand jury without a court recorder. Pam Bondi says it was all fine and dandy despite this.Showing she is either a consummate liar or incompetent. The DOJ have not presented to the defence  the previous prosecutor's report on what he was not attempting to indict either defendant.

I think we can be pretty confident both cases will be dismissed as she was improperly appointed.

The US  murders more people in boats despite providing NO evidence to back up their claims. Please note they very quickly dispatched survivors back to their countries instead of charging when they could have. 

Republicans got smashed in all elections held last tuesday. Perhaps a harbinger on the mid-terms.

Moar Epstein and now investigation into any democrats associated with the case despite Bondi saying earlier in the year the DOJ found no crimes had been committed by any other actors!!

Trump seems to be more fat and older these days and his cognitive decline is accelerating.

Pavarotti

 Of course you must have the fat man singing Nessun Dorma as he does brilliantly

Around the Traps 14/11/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Frank Bongornio on kingmaker-labor-warrior-and-no-stranger-to-scandal-graham-richardson-dies-at-76
• Michelle Arrow on extraordinary-and-occasionally-inept-before-the-dismissal-the-whitlam-government-changed-australia-forever
• Eli Hayes and Darren Lim on not-every-critical-mineral-equal-australia-s-policy-should-reflect
• Mark the Ballot on polling-update
• Mark the Graph on australias-first-truly-domestic-inflation-cycle-in-decades
• Daniel Ghezelbash and Jane MacAdam on as-australia-welcomes-its-millionth-refugee-its-hardline-border-policies-endure-we-can-lead-by-example-again
• Jo Coghlan on how-ac-dcs-1975-debut-shocked-australian-culture
• croaking cassandra on government-departments-championing-bigger-roles-for-themselves
• Michelle Grattan on in-dumping-net-zero-the-liberals-have-thumbed-their-noses-at-voters-they-need-to-win
• Bernice Ma and Samia Badji on the-ndis-shifts-almost-27m-a-year-in-mental-health-costs-alone-our-new-study-suggests
• Natalie Sambhi on anchored-region-what-new-australia-indonesia-security-treaty-really-means
• Melissa Jardine et al on preparing-when-disaster-conflict-converge
• Mathew Newman on rise-rise-geopolitical-risk
• Antony Green on time-to-change-the-electoral-act-to-fix-faults-in-senate-counting

OZ Climate

• victorias-biggest-solar-project-partially-built-by-robots-injects-first-power-into-the-grid 
  
• australias-comfortable-advantage-in-geothermal-heating-and-cooling
  
• andrew-forrest-says-real-zero-is-already-the-winning-business-case-in-three-key-fossil-fuel-guzzling-industries
  
• another-major-solar-battery-hybrid-project-hits-financial-close-as-physics-and-engineering-trump-politics
  
• australias-most-powerful-battery-hit-by-catastrophic-failure-of-transformer
  
• its-incredibly-expensive-global-wind-giant-says-turbine-prices-have-peaked-but-other-costs-are-high
  
• a-clear-decline-iea-says-faster-transition-to-renewables-equals-lower-household-prices
  
• can-you-design-a-better-time-of-use-tariff-than-chris-bowens-solar-sharer
  
• was-the-high-cycling-of-australias-most-powerful-battery-too-much-for-crippled-transformer
  
• sloppy-misleading-and-funded-by-whom-rainforest-reserves-under-fire-at-senate-misinformation-inquiry
  
• the-wheels-fell-off-farmer-tells-senate-how-misinformation-killed-a-community-battery-project
  
• Frank Jotzo on own-goal-why-the-nationals-retreat-on-net-zero-would-be-bad-economics
• Hussein Dia on ev-charging-deserts-in-regional-australia-are-slowing-the-shift-to-clean-transport
• Adam Morton on coalition-brawl-australia-2050-net-zero-emissions-target
• Mark the Graph on the-twenty-one-deadly-sins-of-net-zero , quick-reflection-liberal-backflip-on-energy-policy
• Rod Sims and Baethen Muller on whyalla-steelworks-low-cost-green-iron
• Patrick Commins on coalition-net-zero-power-bills-international-energy-agency
• Michael Keating on net-zero-debate-evidence
• Ana Malos on the-liberals-dropped-net-zero-will-it-make-any-difference-to-australias-climate-response
• Graham Readfearn on facebook-community-groups-and-maggot-infested-rats-the-inner-workings-of-australias-climate-misinformation-war

Northern America

• Barbara McQuade on jeanine-pirros-case-dc-sandwich-thrower-was-downright-lawless
• Brad De Long on bubbles-productive-and-unproductive , is-it-life-liberty-and-democracy
• Rod Drehers diary on americas-crazy-train  Thanks Nick
• Richard Hanania on groyperization-accelerating Thanks Nick
• a wild logos on  the-metaphysics-of-maga Thanks Nick
• Valerie Thomas on how-the-us-cut-climate-changing-emissions-while-its-economy-more-than-doubled
• institutional economics on year-one-of-trump-2.0 , trumps-dollarization-delusion
• the conversable economist on federal-reserve-accountability-for-actions-during-the-pandemic
• Adam Serwer on mafia-style-american-politics
• calculated risk on the-next-financial-crisis
• Kruggers on republicans-are-damaged-by-their-own-cruelty , war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-grocery-prices-are-way-down , the-republican-brain-doesnt-want-to-understnd-healthcare , the-decline-and-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation
• Jonquilyn Hill on health-care-insurance-cost-premiums-2026
• Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire on democrats-folded-government-shutdown-end
• noahpinion on zohrans-real-problems-arent-what-you-think
• Mark Liebovich on trump-lame-duck-third-term-prospects
• Fintan O'Toole on a-guy-who-never-dies
• Jeet Heer on chuck-schumer-shutdown-senate-democrats
• Andrew Prokop on epstein-emails-trump-hours-house-virginia-giuffre
• Jonathan Chait on trump-epstein-email

Europe

• Mary Harrington on the-king-and-the-swarm Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on should-we-put-a-high-price-on-work-visas
• Peter Layton on a-visual-guide-to-14-of-the-drones-wreaking-havoc-in-ukraine-russia-and-beyond
• Alex Tabarrok on european-stagnation
• Sam Knight on the-mess-at-the-bbc-will-never-end

Asia

• Amy Chew on anwar-s-international-success-sours-home
• Kruggers on why-china-will-rule-renewable-energy
• noahpinion on i-want-the-japanese-future-back
• Tyler Cowen on how-has-japan-managed-its-debt-ratio
• Nina Lakhani on israel-attacks-palestine-water
• Saqlain Rizve on why-does-taliban-remain-point-influence-bangladesh
• Khang Vu on will-north-korea-defend-china-taiwan-war
• Richard Heydarian on where-philippines-might-lead-asean

Wonk

• Phillip Kastner on can-the-world-prevent-a-genocide-in-sudan
• Ray Laurence on the-roman-empire-built-300-000-kilometres-of-roads-new-study
• Brad De Long on a-note-reitter-translates-marx-as-he-was
• Dennis Muller on bbc-resignations-over-trump-scandal-show-the-pressures-on-public-broadcasters-and-why-they-must-resist-them
• Tyler Cowen on in-defense-of-schumpeter
• Alex Tabarrok on more-from-less-optimizing-vaccine-doses
• Febrian Ruddyard on case-un-reform-cannot-wait
• the conversable economist on noncompete-agreements-across-high-income-countries
• Nina Khaze on albania-s-ai-generated-minister-impressive-spectacle-questionable-reform

General

• Andor Kiss on james-watson-exemplified-the-best-and-worst-of-science-from-monumental-discoveries-to-sexism-and-cutthroat-competition
• William Crozier on how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of
• Michael Stein on 55-million-years-australias-oldest-crocodile-eggshells-found-in-queensland
• Adam Schatz on alice-coltrane-monument-eternal
• Kylie Cairns and Melanie Fillios on dogs-10-000-years-ago-roamed-with-bands-of-humans-and-came-in-all-shapes-and-sizes

Climate

• Simon O'Connor et al on green-finance-was-supposed-to-contribute-solutions-to-climate-change-so-far-its-fallen-well-short
• Melanie Pill and Georgia Hammersly on why-cop30-may-disappoint-again
• Robyn Eckersly on from-trumps-wrecking-ball-to-chinas-electrifying-rise-geopolitics-hang-heavy-over-this-years-climate-talks
• Alex Dietzel and Katherine Fitzpatrick on five-key-issues-at-the-un-climate-summit-in-brazil-and-why-they-matter-to-you-and-the-planet
• Moyhu on october-global-surface-templs-down-0011
• ocean acidification on consequences-of-climate-change-for-foraminifera-and-foraminifera-communities
• Pep Canadell et al on the-worlds-carbon-emissions-continue-to-rise-but-35-countries-show-progress-in-cutting-carbon
• skeptical science on new_research

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• science-and-religious-dogmatism
  
• what-intro-stats-textbook-to-use
  
• the-accupuncture-paradox-and-its-resolution
  
• from-the-three-branches-of-government-to-the-bidirectional-nature-of-legal-reasoning-in-a-way-that-is-similar-to-how-statistics-works-and-should-work-in-the-real-world
  
• survey-statistics-weights-and-mrp-for-voters
  
• belief-in-the-law-of-small-numbers-as-a-way-to-understand-the-replication-crisis-and-silly-researchers-who-continue-to-cite-discredited-behavioral-research
  
• noted-economist-likes-to-talk-about-demographics-but-he-doesnt-know-the-actual-facts
  
• the-value-of-close-reading-larry-summers-edition
  
• how-is-it-that-this-problem-with-its-21-data-points-is-so-much-easier-to-handle-with-1-predictor-than-with-16-predictors
  
• the-fifth-anniversary-of-a-viral-histogram
  
• Kaiser Fung on govt-shutdown-shines-light-on-missing-data ,we-arent-getting-2-000-checks
• Freakometrics on disentangled deep smoothed bootstrap for fair imbalanced regression
• the grumpy economist on causation-does-not-imply-variation Thanks Tyler

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• global inequality on javais-toujours-raison Thanks Nick
• Rowan Williams on we-who-wrestle-with-god-by-jordan-b-peterson-review-a-culture-warrior-out-of-his-depth Thanks Nick
• Tyler Cowen on two-books-i-hope-you-do-not-mood-affiliate-against, violent-saviors , marked-by-time
• Ruth Marcus on how-the-supreme-court-defines-liberty

Vox Wonk

• takatoshi-ito-scholarship-japans-economy-transformed 
  
• tariffs-global-imbalances-and-dollar 
  
• lessons-denmarks-eight-hour-workday-reform 
  
• supply-chains-and-free-trade-agreements
  
• hidden-costs-of-chinas-industrial-policy
  
• navigating-2022-inflation-surge-lessons-monetary-policy-frameworks
  
• swedish-household-debt-not-too-high-look-solvency-and-liquidity-not-debt-income
  
• supply-shocks-and-inflation-timely-insights-financial-markets
  
• frontiers-digital-finance-part-1-global-perspective
  
• generative-ai-uneven-adoption-labour-market-returns-and-policy-implications
  
• no-eu-does-not-impose-45-tariff-itself
  
• frontiers-digital-finance-part-2-stablecoins-monetary-singleness-tokenisation-and
  
• paying-euroscepticism
  

Mark the Graph is on fire

 We are lucky that Mark the Graph has decided of late to write quite a few articles. ( keep it up)

I have previously  highlighted articles on energy. If you read them all and todays you will be much better for that.

Here ate two

• the-twenty-one-deadly-sins-of-net-zero
  
• australias-first-truly-domestic-inflation-cycle-in-decades
  

I am not bothered by a nazi rally

 If we live in a democracy everyone is entitled to outline their political views no matter how hideous.

Voters will determine whether they are good or not not politicians. 

Okay I understand you cannot have pure free speech as you cannot shout fire in a cinema but I do not like people determining what you can say.

Over in the 'land of the free' the government has determined you cannot speak up for palestinians at all. if you are a visitor or foreign student or a green card holder you can be immediately deported. Indeed it gets worse you cannot criticise donald trump otherwise you get the same treatment.

Back here in OZ if I am so stupid to support Hamas or any other terrorist organisation then why shouldn't I. There are obviously limits to what you can say such as threats to people but let people say what they think.  After all stupid ideas are always stupid ideas

Why are we so afraid of what people say?

It is 50 years

 November 11 is remembered for remembrance day, Ned Kelly's hanging and of course the dismissal.

What most people miss is that the Liberals and National party could not have stopped supply going through the Senate unless the Queensland and NSW premiers replaced existing ALP senators with people who were not of the ALP and who then voted with the Opposition. It is no coincidence Fraser successfully changed the constitution so any senator must be replaced by a  person of the same party.

Another thing people miss is Whitlam's original program was very economically rational. He was af=terall a rattigan man. He established the IAC. He was highly influenced by the Vernon committee. His problem was he wanted to do it all far too quickly.

He was far too sentimental. He allowed people not up to it to be cabinet ministers. Until he appointed Hayden as treasurer, McCelland as Labour minister, Wriedt as Agriculture minster to name three His government was all over the place . It was tool ittle and too late. They destined to be voted out at the next election.

The Liberals were just too impatient and thus coming to power in the way they did Fraser never thought he had legimancy.

The dismissal should never occurred and probably will not occur again but -no-one comes out with their reputation enhanced.

new panels and a battery continued

 Well my of my questions were answered when the tradesman came around to finalise everything. Something was put around the wrong way. Thus far we have plenty coming in and little going out.

Heating of the hot water makes up a lot of the consumption, this happens 4 times every day. even so the battery is around 60% or more in the morning when the sun is up.

The big bonus is if there is a black out the battery gives us power however for reasons i do not understand our air conditioning is only powered by the grid. 

Just bear in mind when power companies told us what average families consumed our 4 person family only consumed what 2 and 1/2 of a 'normal 'family would consume.

So everything is hunky dory

Around the Traps 7/11/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Hugh White on albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump Thanks Nick
• Antony Green on background-on-one-nations-impact-on-elections-and-politics
• Nick Evershed on coalition-better-chance-teal-voters-over-one-nation
• Jennifer Parrker on beyond-aukus-maritime-strategy-australia-needs
• Stella Huagfu on rba-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold-leaving-borrowers-looking-further-ahead-for-relief
• Christopher Burke on australia-s-mineral-diplomacy-can-connect-africa-s-resources-asia-s-demand
• Greg Jericho on the-rba-predicts-inflation-will-rise-faster-than-wages-lets-hope-its-wrong
• Antony Green on evidence-on-labor-supporters-voting-strategically-for-independents

OZ Climate

• Petra Stock on energy-prices-falling-electricity-cheaper-households
• Mark the Graph on the-rights-wrong-headed-retreat-to-energy-nostalgia
• Graham Readfearn on nationals-littleproud-net-zero-emissions-claims-real-or-spin , great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-decline-global-heating-recovery
• Mark the Graph on the-slow-road-can-nationals-energy-plan
• victoria-fast-tracks-approval-of-major-solar-battery-hybrid-project-and-new-big-battery-in-latrobe-valley
  
• Peter Milne on confidential-western-australian-government-report-warns-gas-exports-risk-slowing-asias-move-to-clean-energy
• Wesley Morgan and Ben Newell on as-global-climate-action-threatens-to-stall-can-australia-step-up-at-cop30-in-brazil
• Emile Boulot and Jan McDonald on wheres-nature-positive-australia-must-ensure-environment-reforms-work-to-restore-whats-been-lost
• solar-sharer-bowen-wants-retailers-to-offer-free-electricity-for-three-hours-in-middle-of-every-day
  
• hydro-tasmanias-hidden-crisis
  
• nationals-choose-coal-nuclear-and-climate-denial-as-politics-of-delay-threatens-to-kill-another-industry
  
• free-electricity-in-the-middle-of-the-day-is-not-free-of-risks
  
• solar-farm-complete-at-australias-biggest-off-grid-hybrid-renewable-energy-project
  
• australias-second-biggest-battery-shows-signs-of-life-turning-coal-centre-into-massive-battery-bank
  
• energy-regulator-flags-switch-to-tariff-caps-as-market-digests-meaning-of-free-solar
  
• listen-to-farmers-not-facebook-poll-reveals-majority-of-rez-residents-support-solar-and-wind-development
  
• shock-and-dismay-as-one-of-australias-biggest-solar-recycling-hopes-put-into-administration

Northern America

• Jason Houser on trump-ice-raids-bovino-immigration-border-patrol
• Mary Harrington on epsteins-inner-ring-of-evil Thanks Nick
• Andrew Prokop on trump-ice-border-patrol-purge-leaks-bovino
• the conversable economist on the-silicon-valley-no-poach-conspiracy-recap-and-reminder , economists-on-the-trump-tariffs-supreme-court-case
• Tyler Cowen on david-brooks-on-the-new-right , the-business-of-the-culture-war
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-abundance
• Luiz Romero on trump-is-repeating-the-long-painful-history-of-us-policing-of-latin-america
• Kruggers on were-number-two , the-big-smirk , which-party-is-in-trouble-again , are-hispanics-americas-new-jews , trump-tariff-trouble
• Zack Beauchamp on republican-fuentes-carlson-owens-trump-antisemitism-civil-war
• new deal democrat on weighing-regional-fed-services-surveys-the-sketch-emerges-of-an-economy-on-the-cusp-of-stagflationary-recession
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-tariff-argument-trump-learning-resources-vos-selections
• Mark Stern on supreme-courts-tariffs-trump-fail-kavanaugh
• David Graham on elections-anti-maga-democrats
• Eric Levitz on 2025-elections-virginia-new-jersey-democrats-republicans-trump
• Jeet Heer on nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview-analysis
• Alex Tabarrok on here-comes-the-sun-if-we-let-it-cutting-tariffs-and-red-tape-for-rooftop-solar

Europe

• Oleska Drachewych on trump-and-putin-didnt-hold-new-peace-talks-after-all-but-that-was-likely-putins-plan-all-along
• noahpinion on im-a-weeb-for-ireland
• Grant Wyeth on aland-fate-demilitarised-islands-russia-s-doorstep
• Tony Press on russia-s-arrest-ukrainian-scientist-brings-chill-geopolitics-antarctic

Asia

• Sam Roggeveen on mystery-south-korea-s-nuclear-powered-submarines
• Sophia Yi on high-waters-deep-divisions-views-south-china-sea
• Chee Tan on trump-xi-talks-will-not-have-changed-the-priorities-of-the-chinese-government
• Seong-Hyong Lee on logic-behind-south-korea-s-nuclear-submarine-deal
• Andrew Selth on myth-soft-liners-myanmar-s-military-governments
• Michelle Burgis-Kasthala on after-2-years-of-devastating-war-will-arab-countries-now-turn-their-backs-on-israel
• Tom Corben on sanae-takaichi-japan-back-back
• Lucy Williamson on Inside Gaza
• Robert Walker on new-permanent-contest-china-over-critical-minerals-will-be-hard-win

Wonk

• William Long on buddhism-and-deliberative-democracy Thanks Nick
• Naomi Saphra et al on first tragedy then parse Thanks Nick
• institutional economics on trump-xi-and-one-dimensional-politics
• Tim Harford on in-defence-of-digital-id 
• noahpion on the-giant-basket-case-countries , the-great-world-war-2-afterparty-is-over
• Hannah Forsyth on death-and-capitalism-part-3-of-4 , death-and-capitalism-part-4-of-4
• Kruggers on the-domestic-politics-and-geopolitics-part1
• Tilman Ruff on if-the-us-resumes-nuclear-weapons-testing-this-would-be-extremely-dangerous-for-humanity
• Tyler Cowen on supply-is-elastic-in-a-new-and-different-setting
• Martin Giessdoeffer and Trang Nguyen on cop30-cop31-will-test-middle-powers-climate-opportunity
• the conversable economist on the-case-for-high-skilled-immigration , fall-2025-journal-of-economic-perspectives-freely-available-online

General

• Lisa Hackett on 90-years-of-monopoly-how-the-new-craze-morphed-from-socialist-critique-to-capitalist-dream

Climate

• Real Climate on raising-climate-literacy
• skeptical science on fact brief does cold weather disprove human caused climate change , new_research
• Wenzhong Huang et al on we-studied-217-tropical-cyclones-globally-to-see-how-people-died-our-findings-might-surprise-you

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• studying-sex-ratios-is-just-a-lot-harder-than-you-think-effects-are-tiny-and-variation-is-large
  
• hilarious-ted-talk-bio-he-sold-the-second-most-expensive-picture-at-his-first-exhibition-without-really-being-able-to-paint
  
• an-economist-declares-the-cost-data-from-medicare-are-completely-irrelevant-it-is-clearly-measures-of-net-costs-that-matter-but-only-gross-costs-analogous-to-sticker-prices-are-provided-simila
  
• donald-trump-and-joe-mccarthy-2
  
• polls-betting-odds-nonsampling-errors-win-probabilities-vote-margins
  
• survey-statistics-continued-struggles-with-equivalent-weights
  
• predictive-modelling-for-football-analytics-is-available
  
• discrepancies-between-polls-and-election-outcomes-in-2025
  
• the-theoretical-appeal-of-the-cuomo-non-party-campaign-for-mayor
  
• if-cuomo-had-been-able-to-run-against-mamdani-head-to-head
  
• the-model-underlying-r-hat-and-a-bayesian-estimator
  
• conflicting evidence
• Kaiser Fung on how many gigs , big-drops-and-big-dots , turnout-tuneout
• Freakometrics on functional analysis of loss development patterns in P&C insurance
• Marc Bellamare  on the (mis)use of the fixed effects estimator

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• Jonathan Ree on like-a-top-hat Thanks Nick
• Liz Evans on how-should-i-cast-my-soul-patti-smiths-intimate-new-memoir-is-a-quest-for-her-true-self

Vox Wonk

• data-power-and-emissions-how-ais-growth-may-slow-down-green-transition
  
•  macroeconomic-implications-extreme-weather-events-insights-advanced-economies 
• hidden-cycle-how-informality-shapes-fiscal-policy-and-sovereign-default 
  
• when-debt-perceptions-shape-fiscal-futures
  
• lasting-economic-scars-war
  
• dutch-households-spend-less-their-income-fixed-and-necessary-expenditures 
  
• chinas-shrinking-oil-footprint-how-electric-vehicle-adoption-shaping-chinas-oil
  
• china-shock-global-relocation-production-inequality-consequences
  
• how-ai-can-help-detect-warning-signs-financial-market-stress
  
• spending-smarter-powerful-growth-strategy
  
• chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-and-shifting-landscape-trade-and-investment