“…Doing Business around the world does seem to be getting easier”[FT]::blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2…
The Atty. Gen.’s discretion to prosecute does not restore free speech. These are bad laws. Parl’t. has shamed itself::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Asia Infrastructure Bank the wrong place for AU to “take sides” between regional super-powers. We need a compromise::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Of course CHN has an “agenda” for Asian Infrastructure Bank. US still denies CHN its fair share of IMF quota/control::bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-0…
“Film helped me learn to love light.”::photographylife.com/why-do-you-enj… pic.twitter.com/dPXOFzydb8
“Some 60% of [AU] company tax revenue comes from multinationals”::How much tax do multinationals pay?: catallaxyfiles.com/2014/10/30/how…
“Australia… is going further than most in attacking the civil liberties of all citizens”[FT]::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1…
“Some Good News on Patents”::marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… pic.twitter.com/aNnLueVIKh
Misleading tosh to claim #TPP is a “confidential bargain”. Trade agreements are joint experiments with public assets::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
In a ludicrous decision on its future growth, Europe bids to be a hollow groan followed by a small pop::theguardian.com/environment/20…
“Ebola alarm meets its match in New York” Gosh! After ONE whole case? How unflappable is that!?:”ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7…
“This is beyond hypocrisy, it is irresponsible.”::catallaxyfiles.com/2014/10/24/how…
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free… it expects what never was and never will be.” (Jefferson) nationalinterest.org/feature/tortur…
Nice work from @dikenson (& BEA here?bea.gov/international/…) on complementarity of exports & FDI in jobs, R&D, sales::cato.org/blog/does-fore…
Why does fiction persist that #WTO decisions need unanimity? Why not a Min.Council vote in crisis? Does G8 fear to enfranchise the majority?
Will BBEdit 11 *finally* allow more flexible CLMs?::barebones.com/support/bbedit…
@Halsrethink AU, too. We’re currently #5 in this Ugly Parade (Annex D of WTO report shows Govts under-reported use)::docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/F…
Forbes details the cryptic, bordering-corrupt, anti-consumer practice of Anti-Dumping. As in the USA so in AU, alas::forbes.com/sites/danikens…
USA errs still as Roosevelt/White did in 1945 to use IFIs as instruments of For Pol. Now CHN, too. More wrecks ahead::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4…
Copyright law adoption c.1801 => more Italian opera. Surprise? More telling: efficient © term looks to be ~20 yrs.::marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
H Kissinger speaks twice in today’s Australian; and is twice wrong. On Whitlam: [theaustralian.com.au/news/gough-whi…] On Rudd: [theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…]
RT @SincDavidson: Padraic P. McGuinness on Whitlam quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/20… [Surely Quadrant can do better than recycle Paddy’s bitter rants!]
RT @CISOZ: VALE Gough. The last time I saw him speak @ CIS’s Bert Kelly memorial. Recommended. cis.org.au/publications/o…
H. Ergas (as ever, brilliant) distinguishes morality, liberty and learning for the shabby dills that now rule U. Syd::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
@PublicDomainRev @amstott1789 PollyDolly stole Byron’s idea from that night at Diodati. But N.B. was bled to (death by physicians in Greece)
@CanberraInsider @SincDavidson Great sacks of fruit! Ah, those were the days…when tailors, too, knew how to cut! Cute shoes, PM!
Nobel laureate Jean Tirole’s 2005 paper on TRIPS, patented medicine, income redistribution and compulsory licensing::idei.fr/doc/by/tirole/…
@carreebee Will TFA-1 (or -n) leave us better- or worse-off?Alternatives are to stay ‘stuck’ or fragment WTO with non-MFN plurilaterals.
CBeresfordNZ @pwgallagher if India gets a free ride, how do you think the next negotiation is going to go?
#WTO Marrakech Agreement —> simple “majority of votes cast” (Art.9) adopts any MFN agreement. Adopt Bali TF: let India free-ride. Who cares?
#WTO’s ITA, Fin. Services did not require waivers; they are MFN plurilaterals. Is there any reason Bali TF agreement could not be same?
“Lawyers were working hard on an alternative…” Ominous if they’re looking to weaken limits on waivers ::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a…
@1814now
“A drowsy, frowzy poem, called the ‘Excursion,
Writ in a manner which is my aversion”
[Don Juan, Canto III — xi.1819]
“Australia’s coal producers… will be the most affected”. Not so clear. Depends how tariff hits Chinese consumptiontheaustralian.com.au/business/reint…TV
insteconomics Rec 7.6 of 2002 PC inquiry into Cost Recovery: ‘basic information product set of agencies should be funded from general tax revenue’
kw_watson Why we should be worried about recent US trade “settlements” — on Cotton bit.ly/1CVqGod & Cloves Cigarettes bit.ly/1v2N7GM
In 1951, 66% of electorate rejected Menzies’ attempt to ban the CPA. Doesn’t that tell us what our “values” are?::theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terro…
“When you just stand back and weigh it up – just a huge waste of taxpayers money” (the Aust. BOM)warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=33033D
“I suspect that Rod Sims is a Sims addict” (David Leyonhjelm)::catallaxyfiles.com/2014/10/04/gue…
“Wilson has blasted…the decision to force parliamentary visitors wearing… burkas to sit behind a glass enclosuretheaustralian.com.au/national-affai…WJke
“The Olympics are still a beautiful event but those who own it have rotted to the roots”::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d…
It’s that simple. “You either believe that we are entitled to say what we think; or you don’t”:Leyonhjelm to Abbott::youtube.com/watch?v=xdKo23…
“These changes would extend ASIO’s powers into areas… not normally …described as terrorism or national securitytheaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terro…HByF
Could we do a valuable WTO deal to open world farm markets that did not include “difficult” India, China etc?::petergallagher.com.au/index.php/site…
@CoppetainPU Links to 2009 Gallagher+Stoler “Critical mass” evaluation paper and to discussion here::petergallagher.com.au/?s=critical+ma…
@CoppetainPU … But, in my view, non-MFN terms for non-CM Members would likely run foul of GATT Article I. So, even if CM works, it doesn’t.
@CoppetainPU We had two scenarios: India, China, Indon. in, and out. On 2004/5 data both ‘beat’ projections for WTO (2008). But…
@CoppetainPU Unless CM-joiners offer MFN terms to China (Russia? India?) it could create food trade blocs, turning our +ve 2009 result -ve.
carlyleletters TC: “America is like an amiable family teapot; you think it is all out long since, and lo, the valuable implement yields another cup!”