Despite massive, intrusive data snooping (is.gd/FyymdP) U.S. stumbles over For Pol, relies on indiscriminate killings for security
Fascinating: ICC finds no statistical model for temperature time-series but Summary relies on a known-bad linear fit::informath.org/AR5stat.pdf
AUS-KOR FTA to set new pattern? Concessions on Investor-State, FDI thresholds, auto tariffs? R Callick thinks so:: http://t.co/LDm5EKkL35
I’ll be attending the Bali Business Forum on 5/12 held in parallel with th#WTOTO Ministerial b@iccwbo_orgrg &@ICTSDSDbalibusinessforum.orgNv
Mavroidis: WTO as a ‘public good’ (for Sovereigns) sustained by contract. DS adjudication ‘completes’ the contract::is.gd/ijgmuv
Sales of the most robust email client on OSX (@mailmateapp) don’t pay the bills: please join me in funding more work: is.gd/qwdeWR
The PC interim report on ‘safeguards’ for canned fruit shows no unusual import pressure. Govt should heed, move on:http://t.co/ckO9Nrhu5l
Hysterical calls to subsidise Coca-Cola Amatil brand an expensive mug’s game! Is MacFarlane mug enough to listen? :http://t.co/cPWClqzALk
The multilateral trade mess: a five-year-old assessment, still current â€is.gd/JvGVznxv
In merchandise trade, geography matters: St Louis still the gateway to the American West (flip.it/KMwqM)
snlester Copyright is “not supposed to be about corporate welfare for Disney.” wapo.st/17lUEnz
Celebrating #ibooks now on the Mac, the illustrated audio-iBook of Byron’s Don Juan, Canto I, FREE for a short time:: is.gd/6dt067
Celebrating #ibooks now on OSX, the illustrated audio-iBook of Byron’s Don Juan, Canto I, FREE for a short time:: is.gd/6dt067
Emirates’ President Tim Clark vision for Y class: jam them up 10-abreast, dope them with food & TV::is.gd/yjgnT9
Google’s Terms of Service has a summary “because many of you are allergic to legalese” (plain-spoken wusses!) is.gd/rM3HbS
Another public spending ‘emergency’ hits a ‘pause’: obesity in US adults unchanged since 2003-4::is.gd/Do1duI via @scottlincicome
Oops (copy/paste error): +0.01% GDP EU and +0.6% GDP Canada
EU-CAN-FTA: Quotas still on cars, cheese, beef; Eggs+poultry excluded; Useless patents longer; +0.00006% GDP Canada; +0.00001% GDP EU. Wow?
How’s that TPP going? Canada concedes “up to 32% of cheese market” to EC in FTA. Libre commerce? N’en sais rien! is.gd/8VaVfn
@AeonTimeline count me in!
Mankiw’s fable in NYT “Comity is hard to achieveâ€. In fact, it never happens. In crises, elites impose their prefs::http://t.co/Z5oFVPVfBX
Good sense from @timwilsoncomau on trade priorities. Unilateral lib. will help secure against dimmer outlook in Asia::http://t.co/QvqouOP6jC
RT @insteconomics: “Australian-made cars are too expensive to sell overseas” http://t.co/n0IVk4zPhV. Too expensive to sell here either.
RT @alan_john_moran: The Peoples Republic of Melbourne announces urban plans to ensure high new house prices prevail. Socialist amateurs! …
Considering the disaster that is Docklands, these price-hiking dills should never again be allowed to play “planners†http://t.co/XxcF4IFCsk
No evidence that bilateral FTAs are “building blocks.†At best they’re harmless, near useless, for. pol. gestures::http://t.co/7U2c4JLeAY
I resigned twice (from Foreign in late 70s & from DFAT in mid 90s) because value-added opps. were small. Still true::http://t.co/wAVVcyZ5TF
SimonEvenett Congress cant be serious about putting currency rules in the TPP accord. Where would that put the Fed? Its all posturing for domestic groups
@kw_watson @BryanGeneRiley increasing effective protection for consumer goods!?? Be bolder :-)
RT @JacobinCalendar: Bonjour! Today is Potato day in the Grape Harvest month of the 222nd year
Krugman right that ∂(X+M)/∂Y>1 is not a natural law. Whether slowdown matters not so clear. M + FDI drives innovatis.gd/4q0ANYizeF
Why are Indy. Ministers captured so quickly by mendicant firms? Vanity? Stockholm syndrome? Short memories? http://t.co/zct7bV88WX
Right about the nature of the global leadership problem, but let’s hope 1940s are no guide to future accommodation::http://t.co/VqTwww4zCn
How abuse of I/O Table multipliers inflates apparent benefits of government subsidies: http://t.co/77vA7Nbv7X