It is time again for Around the Traps.
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
- Chris Richardson on budgets Thanks Nick
- Ross Gittins on the-economy-is-just-means-to-end-so-is-it-working , labors-persistent-refusal-to-fix-jobseeker-is-shameful , budget-will-make-us-better-off-now-but-worse-off-later , budgets-message-maybe-well-pull-off-the-softest-of-landings
- Joechem Kaempf on more-desalination-is-coming-to-australias-driest-states-but-super-salty-outflows-could-trash-ecosystems-and-fisheries
- Sara Daehm and Anthea Vogl on high-court-dismisses-key-challenge-to-indefinite-immigration-detention-what-does-it-mean
- Yasir Arafat and Dayoush Abibi on scrapping-the-waste-export-levy-threatens-australias-emerging-lithium-battery-recycling-industry
- Greg Jericho on australia-budget-2024-the-six-graphs-you-need-to-see , australia-wage-price-index-figures-inflation-salary-growth
- Stephen Bartos on chalmers-is-bitten-by-the-giveaway-bug-in-a-budget-that-contains-good-news-for-almost-everyone
- John Hawkins on budget-2024-chalmers-fights-inflation-will-it-be-enough-for-a-rate-cut
- Peter Greste on david-mcbride-goes-to-prison-and-australian-democracy-takes-a-hit
- Kate Griffiths on the-budget-is-full-of-good-news-but-good-news-isnt-the-same-as-good-management
- James Bowen on australia-s-new-gas-strategy-makes-flawed-foreign-policy
- croaking cassandra on productivity-growth-4-anglos , words-and-inactions , two-central-banks
- John Quiggin on its-time-to-give-labors-first-term-a-scorecard-have-we-actually-seen-any-transformative-vision
- Aruna Sathanapally on at-the-heart-of-the-budget-is-the-sad-truth-the-economy-is-weak-thats-one-reason-inflation-will-fall
OZ Climate
- gas-shortage-yeah-nah-a-fact-check-on-labors-fossil-gas-future-strategy
- gigawatt-scale-solar-and-battery-project-near-queensland-coal-plant-wins-federal-green-tick
- harmony-on-the-grid-wind-solar-and-battery-projects-made-to-pay-for-sins-they-could-not-commit
- battery-storage-is-about-to-overtake-global-capacity-of-pumped-hydro
- worlds-biggest-grids-could-be-powered-by-renewables-with-little-or-no-storage-if-we-are-smart-enough
- Alison Reeve on clean-energy-slump-why-australias-renewables-revolution-is-behind-schedule-and-how-to-fix-it
Northern America
- Liz Zhou on roger-fortson-police-killing
- Nicole Narea on us-border-crisis-mexico-migrant-immigration-asylum
- Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-worst-decisions-donald-trump , supreme-court-cfpb-clarence-thomas-community-financial
- noahopinion on the-big-tariffs-are-here , seven-reasons-america-is-headed-for-a-conservative-decade
- John Holbo on originalism-for-realists-two-obvious-thoughts
- Steve Benen on biggest-flaw-justice-clarence-thomas-newest-complaints
- Tyler Cowen on the-decline-in-labors-share-of-national-income
- renew economy on why-us-offshore-wind-power-is-struggling-the-good-the-bad-and-the-opportunity
- Paul Waldmann on clarence-thomas-supreme-court-samuel-alito-complaints
- calculated risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-03
- Dean Baker on overall-and-core-consumer-price-index-cpi-both-increased-by-0-4-percent-in-march
- Justin Peters on fox-news-donald-trump-joe-biden-election
- the conversable economist on uber-lyft-vs-the-minneapolis-city-council
- Justin Fox on US public debt is big. Demand is bigger Thanks Brad
- Charlie Sykes on trump-rally-vaccine-mandates-risks-kids-lives
- Mark Stern on cfpb-funding-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-fifth-circuit-nonsense
- new deal democrat on april-consumer-prices-still-an-interplay-of-gas-and-house-prices-with-a-side-helping-of-motor-vehicle-insurance
Europe
- Tennyson Dearing on ukraine-gets-green-light-strikes-russia-it-was-long-overdue
- renew economy on renewable-energy-averages-95-per-cent-share-in-portugal-in-april
- Mainly Macro on the-political-right-is-in-illiberal-trap-of-its-own-making
- Danica Jenkins on we-do-not-want-to-be-like-russia-a-first-hand-account-of-georgias-fight-for-democracy
- Christina Caryl on georgia-erupts
- Michael Toomey on robert-fico-why-the-attempted-assassination-of-slovakian-prime-minister-could-fuel-the-information-war-between-russia-and-europe
Asia
- Joshua Keating on hezbollah-israel-lebanon
- Justin Burke on cause-china-s-coercion-skies-may-lay-under-water
- Khang Vu on north-korea-s-population-problem
- Buu Nguyen on dams-salt-sad-fate-vietnam-s-mekong-delta
- Fred Kaplan on israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations-rafah-impasse-stalemate
- Raymond Offenheiser on ive-spent-decades-overseeing-relief-operations-around-the-world-and-heres-whats-going-wrong-in-gaza
- Ian Parmeter on israels-invasion-of-rafah-will-not-eliminate-hamas-or-end-the-war-so-what-is-benjamin-netanyahus-plan
- Richard Morgan on nakba-day-israel-palestine-gaza-war-displacement
- Areyeh Meier on is-israel-committing-genocide
- Nicole George on why-is-new-caledonia-on-fire-according-to-local-women-the-deadly-riots-are-about-more-than-voting-rights
- David Chang -WeiWu on most-important-factor-hardening-china-s-stance-taiwan
- Ellen Ioannes on gaza-deaths-israel-hamas-hospital-ministry-health
- Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern on alito-flag-supreme-court-justices-stop-the-steal-ethics-rules-pitiful
Wonk
- Glenn Loury on self censorship in public discourse Thanks Nick
- Institutional economics on country-risk-premia-and-a-second-trump-adminstration
- Tim Harford on why-deep-down-were-all-ultramarathoners
- noahopinion on the-death-again-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it , how-i-would-regulate-ai
- Erin O'Brien on what-is-it-about-gaza-wars-are-raging-around-the-world-so-why-are-young-people-so-passionate-about-this-one
- Tyler Cowen on the-reserve-currency-and-the-liquidity-demand-for-safe-assets
- sandwichman on opium-of-people-and-radical-chains
- Ved Shinde on seek-national-security-begin-becoming-relevant
- Greg Earl on economic-diplomacy-budgeting-deglobalisation
General
- Timothy Schmidt on what-causes-the-different-colours-of-the-aurora-an-expert-explains-the-electric-rainbow
- Timothy Rapp et al on we-mapped-a-lost-branch-of-the-nile-river-which-may-be-the-key-to-a-longstanding-mystery-of-the-pyramids
- notes on growth on visiting-the-worlds-most-expensive-nuclear-station Thanks Nick
- moyhu on giss-april-global-temperature-down-from-march
- ocean acidification on causes-effects-and-possible-mitigation-strategies-of-ocean-acidification
- skeptical science on climate-hurricanes-destructive
- this is not cool on tree-rings-show-last-summer-hottest-since-time-of-christ
- renew economy on wind-turbines-pay-back-life-cycle-carbon-emissions-in-less-than-2-years-nz-study-finds
- Benji Jones on coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-change
Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)
- what-happens-when-youve-had-deferential-media-coverage-and-then-all-of-a-sudden-youre-treated-as-a-news-item-rather-than-as-a-figure-of-admiration
- is-it-really-the-economy-stupid
- theyre-trying-to-get-a-hold-on-the-jungle-of-cluster-analysis
- reducing-mortality-in-populations-with-high-mortality-often-leads-to-a-younger-population-steady-state-population-distributions-and-more-from-a-scholarly-remix
- data-problems-with-the-the-local-news-initiative-mapping-project
- the-income-of-the-average-american-will-double-approximately-every-39-years-who-says-that-sort-of-thing-show-some-respect-for-uncertainty-dude
- a-bizarre-failure-in-the-review-process-at-pnas
- how-to-think-about-the-effect-of-the-economy-on-political-attitudes-and-behavior
Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)
- the Atlantic on summer-reading-2024
- Mark Pierce on bread-index-measure-revolt
Vox Wonk
- commodity-prices-and-global-financial-cycle
- firms-debt-structure-matters-monetary-policy-transmission
- role-imported-rd-services-and-immigrant-researchers-firm-growth-evidence-denmark
- covid-19-policy-support-and-firm-productivity-retrospect
- how-zero-risk-weights-sovereign-debt-can-lead-capital-misallocation
- how-geopolitics-changing-trade
- dominant-currency-pricing-international-trade-services
- influence-nature-related-risks-loan-pricing-and-financial-sector
- why-oil-import-restrictions-hurt-russia-more-price-cap
- transition-illiberal-democracy-new-ebook
- global-gender-gaps-may-never-close-their-own
