Oops… “Silvestrine” R@pwgallagherer: Silverstrine ritual… etc
Silverstrine ritual… Queuing to buy fresh prawns for the b-b- q twitpic.com/dqkx6e
Krugman (1998) failing to notice that tech pessimism (his) is as likely as optimism (Kahn’s) to be wrong. 7:08 AM, Dec 31st, 2013 via iOS
Pre-history of the #TPIP: JFK’s “declaration of interdependence” (is.gd/XU1XlN) but De Gaulle says ‘Non’ (is.gd/sZsGZA)
Sadly, it’s quite believable. The BOM located its new Melbourne weather station between two asphalt parking lots is.gd/VJMl81
Christmas wishes with V.Regina, Engels, Levi-Strauss, Scrooge & the Counter-Reformation: from whom but @HenryErgas?:theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Breaking up the union/owner cabotage cartel has been high on the micro policy reform list forever. +1 for @TheIPA :theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
I for one am cheered by President Obama’s new concern for ‘unnecessary damage’. No more errant drone killings perhaps?
Will TISA be a big deal (voxeu.org/article/trade-…)? The test is: does it cut actual costs of entry/operations or just excessive WTO bindings?
Markets work! Transform Georgia’s performance, prospects (via @DEShellenberger)::bdlive.co.za/opinion/2013/1… (More here: worldbank.org/en/country/geo…)
Voyager’s Brahms’ Requiem & Stravinsky’s Rite (both Robert Winter—>articles.latimes.com/1990-08-12/ent…c) were astonishingly good:the-magazine.org/32/scotched0
An icon of the disruptive 60s still burns with righteous resentment:Ted Nelson’s eulogy for Doug Engelbart::bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/an-…
Distinguishing Smith v Maryland in the NSAs snooping case: protections for ‘meta’ and for ‘mega-meta’ data nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…
Fervour over #TPP, #TPIP & #Bali is humbug: trade agreements are mostly a diversion. Cutting red tape needs national not int’l coordination.
A Post-Bali quickie with the usual star-studded cast… voxeu.org/article/buildi…
@sdonnan Trade about mutual wins, public policy, collaboration, not bargains. ‘Secret’ deals bound to be about rent shares not open markets.
Does regulation of supply (price, quality, user registration) really control better than regulation of prohibition?::reason.com/archives/2013/…
Yes—>voxeu.org/article/wto-ag…h. But to finish Doha, CHN & RUS must come to the table. “Done or dead” TPP, TPIP exclusion makes that less likely
insteconomics Let’s throw out the submarines and compulsory super afr.com/p/national/let…
scottlincicome Really thoughtful commentary on the seemingly-ubitquitous “I, Nutella” story from @KevinNR: nationalreview.com/node/366219/pr…
CatoTrade What “protections” does foreign investment need beyond what is already provided in domestic law? bit.ly/1cqhXL9
Perhaps the Pope holds evidence is only technical information; not a determinant factor (@timwilsoncomau?)::theatlantic.com/international/… bn
“Strategic” review still offers no CBA for $41 bn commitment to the NBN. Mad profligacy on a digital “VFT”. theaustralian.com.au/technology/tur…
CISOZ New #TARGET30 report by @insteconomics on strengthening our fiscal institutions - download at cis.org.au/publications/t… #ausecon
RT @SimonEvenett: “Trade Policy Research As If the Global Economic Crisis Really Mattered” lnkd.in/dmSjUBD
Speaking in thumbs::theverge.com/2013/12/11/520…
Dozens of top dairy farms in W Vic need buyers to keep them going. But Robb+Abbott slam the gates on Asian capital::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Good stuff! RT @JeromyAnglim: My thoughts on: “Why is statistically significant not enough?” - What do you think? stats.stackexchange.com/q/79289/183
snlester On sugar, Australia may need to start talking to the Fanjuls if it wants more market access: wapo.st/1btUg7T
Plus it’s à la carte RT @snlester: @scottlincicome I sense lots of boondoggles on the horizon; I volunteer to help the Seychelles implement.
kw_watson Copyright office reconsidering Life+70 while USTR works to lock it in around the world. Why? “Because.” bit.ly/1csvPbp
Art. 8 prohibiting ‘consularization’ dropped from Bali TF Agreement! A useless paperwork tax that @iccwbo has fought since 1920s survives!
Cheer for Bali’s sunrise, ephebe . But remember: “This is the emperor of ice-cream!” Tariff-quotas? Export subsidies? Services commitments?
Meanwhile..#WTOTO is not the Agreements. Flow of gains continues from accessions: CHN, RUS, UKR, TWN, VNM, SAU (~20% of world GNI $ppp)
I for one am bemused by our new Caribbean, Latin overlords #WTO #MCM9. Still, the embargo is dumb, too:: uk.reuters.com/article/2013/1…
The ‘attribution’ problem: jiggering GATT clauses wont lift GDP by $1 trillion. Cutting red tape <— transparency, user pressure, investment.
“This action is naive, irresponsible & indicates the government is captured by the big business-big union nexus”::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
The $1tr gain ‘expected’ from #MCM9 based on plausible ‘back of envelope’ calcs. Wd. be an accident if right::reut.rs/1aEI4gl
@snlester um … You meant AUS-KOR text: got it now. But I don’t have the text and don’t expect for weeks on past performance.
@snlester en route Singapore on another project; WTO will have to save itself (or not). Best.
What’s the gain in AUS-KOREA agreed today? Saves AUS beef from discriminatory loss to US competitors in quota mkt. Ain’t “free trade” grand?
One more from Jim Bacchus today #MCM9::mega-regionals look likely to prompt a challenge that forces AB to define “substantially all” in XXIV
Gary Horlick::why does it cost me $6 to send a parcel to Los Angeles but $25 to send it to Toronto (1500 mi closer)? Borders are too costly!
Jim Bacchus:: a Bali agreement could be a model for future WTO agreements. Doing what we can on e.g. trade facilitation is not ‘minimalism’
Jim Baccus:: We expected the (1994) Uruguay Round agreement to be the last ‘round’, followed by continuing smaller plurilaterals w’in WTO
WTO DDG Karl Brauner at Bali Bus. Forum:: Bali is not about ‘saving the WTO’ but about growing trade, jobs, welfare.
Try this again. RT @pwgallagher: High drama in Bali: SBY to the rescue… pic.twitter.com/i8V5Um7aTD
High drama in Bali: SBY to the rescue…
Is WTO still viable? Answer depends on parties’ compliance in this sort of dispute not on Bali::bit.ly/1cWblWA (H/T @WorldTradeLaw)
@SimonEvenett I seem to recall that India won the weasel-term ‘explicit consensus’ rule as a reward for signing up at Doha; blew up Cancún.
What does MacFarlane think he’s doing!? It’s not the role of govt to pay Coke $$ for a ‘sustainable’ cannery theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Thanks Simon! RT @snlester: .@pwgallagher has some bold but sensible proposals for trade negotiations/policy: bit.ly/1eQoGSm
@howserob Will be there tomorrow. My experience of #WTO MCMs back to 1986 is the fog is thickest close up (‘smog’ in Punta; everyone smoked)
Before FIRB (<1975) how may instances of ‘rogue’ FDI? Rex Connor + Khemlani the only candidate I think@insteconomics: institutional-economics.com/index.php/sect…
snlester I should probably care more about the Bali outcome, but I just can’t get excited about it all: bit.ly/1bbmdQT
EdwardTufte Graphical statistical inference in the browser:
randomized sparklines test for streak bias.
edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a…
#statistics #datascience