Here’s the gist of the Cairns Group report that USTR referenced (ictsd.org/bridges-news/b…) in @snlester’s article cato.org/blog/putting-a…)
snlester I’d like to get excited about taking on agriculture subsidies in trade talks, but I have some doubts: cato.org/blog/putting-a…
kw_watson Froman promises no accession of new member to TPP without Congressional approval. I’m curious, b/c that’s not how WTO accession works.
T.S. Elliott & W. Churchill: both dead 50 years? Ah well… Ehu fugaces, Postume… Lions of our roaring youth.
“[H]is government is in a lot of trouble – it will very likely be a one-term government”catallaxyfiles.com/2015/01/27/how…CB
I find IMF’s new “data portal” too slow, hard to navigate, loaded down by graphics that get in the way of numbers::data.imf.org
√√√ RT @kw_watson: To sell Democrats on TPP, Obama conflates free trade with protectionism bit.ly/15DXcju
kw_watson Confused WaPo bites the anti-China hook: Touts TPP as “U.S. free-trade principles” over “China’s mercantilist goals”. wapo.st/1BS5zp0
“[Bond] Markets… are the worst way to predict the future, except for all the others.”Nice!::washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…
@highlights_app Why are the shortcuts for “Edit—>Find…” greyed out? Also, why does “View —> Search PDF” do nothing most of the time (V1.2.2)
Kindle Textbook Creator (kdp.amazon.com/how-to-publish…). Zips up a PDF as a Kindle book. Meh! No competition for Apple’s iBooks Author.
dikenson .@sdonnan Dem TPA vote a proxy for Clinton v Warren. If Dem “yeas” < 20, Warren challenges Clinton; 20-40 maybe; >40 no #TPA #TPP #Hillary16
FREE in honor of Byron’s 227th birthday, the illustrated, read-aloud iBook of Canto I of Don Juan (+ the Dedication)::madbaddangerous.com
@AllegraByron194 @twhiddleston Great voice and delivery but where’s the innuendo (this is Byron after Carnivale)?::itunes.apple.com/us/book/don-ju…
Stagnation? The “great mediocrity”? It depends on what you measure, of course::gatesnotes.com/2015-annual-le…
AllegraByron194 Happy birthday, my dear Byron!! pic.twitter.com/bIG9DufmCH
@highlights_app Please consider allowing the user to set a ‘sticky’ relative width of the two panes in the Highlights window.
Rowan Callick on the AU trade agenda. Kindly offers me a platform to be rude about Abbott’s “tougher” A-Dumping regs::theaustralian.com.au/business/opini…
Nice! RT @atelier7_ana: >> Using @Ghostery to get a sense of how my browser activity is tracked.
Intrigued!
@themetresgained Thanks Trisha. Missed it.
A defense of freedom of speech & refutation of 18c in the NYTimes (of all places) by an “advisor to the Labor party”::nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opi…
dikenson #TPP & #TTIP will liberalize trade but also incl some protectionism. I support if deal net liberalizing. bit.ly/1hnkABU #CatoSOTU
@highlights_app Please consider export of notes to nvALT via URL scheme
Peter Wallenberg (d. Jan ’15) led @iccwbo in one of the most difficult periods for business::petergallagher.com.au/index.php/site… pic.twitter.com/fAu12VcnTF
Nope! The reason exch. policies are not in modern trade agremts is stable rates + fiscal autonomy ⊃ capital controls::piie.com/publications/o…
Sure, empiricism underdetermines reality. Still, high quality data + good analysis tend to quiet silly alarms:: co2science.org/articles/V18/j…
Graeme Hugo: engaging teacher, generous colleague. Keen, humane understanding of social demography (e.g. marriage market in A-Pac). Vale.
ALeighMP Sad to hear of the passing of @adelaideuni’s Graeme Hugo, one of Aust’s leading demographers adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus… pic.twitter.com/1c1dsWYyoi
Cutting trade costs unilaterally offers $billions in low hanging fruit. Static penalty of AU’s low avg. duties >$7bn, most falling on SMEs.
Yes, trade agreements are overrated & IP claims absurd, but Krugman seems far too pessimistic on dynamic gains::krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/sus…
Trade responds less to GDP growth as production consolidates (foreign value-added in Chinese exports 60% –> 35%)::voxeu.org/article/explai…
Oxfam misread the data behind its “inequality” factoid. More here (iea.org.uk/node/9980) and here (nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/yes-80…).
✔️ RT @CISOZ: How long will ISIS last, and what should we do about them: Dr David Kilcullen. bit.ly/1wVxy3s
Raghuram [project-syndicate.org/commentary/out…] & El-Erian [project-syndicate.org/commentary/unc…] shd. recall the 20th C. growth engine was private enterprise not govt.
@snlester … fortunately our quarantine regs. protect us from the DNA of (nasty, foreign) chickens. Not to mention bananas.
@snlester Dumb, but report misleads, too. Most processed (i.e “labeled”) food does not contain viable DNA: processing degrades/destroys it.
Krugman and fiends think free-trade now “second order issue”? OK. But their first order issue is… Climate change!!?blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015…ET
scottlincicome Sad but unsurprising: Krugman publicly abandons Nobel Prize-winning commitment to free trade in favor of liberal fads blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015…
@JeffDSachs @snlester Agree: arguments Robt. Fisk made in his “Great War for Civilisation” (2005). Still, demography of M.E. also a factor.
MT @SincDavidson: Austerity in 2009-2013: Finds “…cuts in spending are much less costly…[than] tax increases.”:nber.org/papers/w20827Qa
Halsrethink In 1973 Haldeman proposed new law named “Fair Trade Act”.I told Nixon”fair”a union polit.codeword for “fairer”=more for them&less for others
kw_watson Hail Mary pass into the endzone of credibility RT @DaveThomas5150: USTR says two-month trajectory for TPP completion insidetrade.com/20150113248670…
David Cameron doesn’t understand that screwing around with privacy demolishes security, too::boingboing.net/2015/01/13/wha… pic.twitter.com/ZDalsfhgmi
“We’re not as good on free trade as we like to think, but not as bad as we could be”… but worse than we NEED to becatallaxyfiles.com/2015/01/13/tar…aj
[Oops! Try Again] √√ John Gruber (!) on Cameron’s thought bubble::daringfireball.net/linked/2015/01…
If this keeps up we’ll loose the right to condemn the government for not cracking down hard enough on liberties to prevent the next attack.
Alas, even H. Ergas thinks the answer to an assault on liberal values is “vigorously” to repress “hateful” speech::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
√√ “…we needn’t bother with more free trade deals. We just need to get rid of our tariffs” Senator Leyonhjelm ::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/01/11/gue…
snlester .@JonathanTurley: The French government is the real problem for free speech washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-…
Frydenberg says retailers being hurt by GST-free personal imports but sector turnover rose 4.5% y/y to Nov.14::abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.…
Hiking GST on imports = trade protection = a (inefficient) tax on consumers designed to subsidise producers (retailers) and raise revenue.
Freudenberg fibs. Hiking tax (GST) on personal imports is not tax reform (revenue falls). It’s protectionism::theaustralian.com.au/news/no-to-gst…