FT editors fail Micro-101 “[EximBank] gives US companies a modicum of comfort against better subsidised competitors”::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3…
@sdonnan “The crudest assessment is that #TPP is an effort to contain China… [and to] protect ‘sacred’ products”. So why would we join this?
jpclark14 12-country #TPPA talks end without a breakthrough | The Japan Times japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/2…
Wonderful RT @TheNewRambler: TYLER COWEN @tylercowen “Generous Minds” review of Samuel Johnson NewRamblerReview.com pic.twitter.com/zFuE8hXq6j
Terrible power:”A chunk of the [Nepalese] earth measuring 75 by 37 miles shifted 10 feet in 30 seconds on Saturday”::Theatlantic.feedsportal.com/c/34375/f/6258…
“The strategic soundness of the Dardanelles offensive” obscured by the tragic execution. Churchill not the villain::powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/…
byronico James Bond in Venice: Ian Fleming’s Risico wp.me/p2usuN-l1
100 years (tomorrow) after the Gallipoli landing, reading “The Challenge of War” Vol 3 of Gilbert’s Churchill biog.::amazon.com/Winston-Church…
Spluttering with rage? Tongue-tied with indignation? Brush up your Shakespeare and put in the boot::theparisreview.org/blog/2014/02/0…
@Delilahbrandy But still, you made it “snappy”™ Well done!
But #1 is a fake “Sanders’ #3 a fiction. RT @AllegraByron194: Portraits Of Lord Byron, In Order Of Lord Byron-ness v.iew.im/MnUust XD
Regional agreements and RoO (on @snlester’s International Economic Law and Policy Blog)::worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2015/…
davidshepardson Senate Finance rejects @SenSherrodBrown amendment 11-15 that would have barred China from joining #TPP at later date w/out Congress OK
kw_watson Why do Senators not want China to lower its tariffs and raise its labor, environment, IP, and investment protections by joining the TPP?
Fun! But barely mentions reasons for fame RT @Delilahbrandy: Quick Bios: Lord Byron (And His Skull Cup) youtu.be/qkILD-MoaSU via @YouTube
Wonderful. Celebrating “Earth Day”, a bunch of “spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions” from the ’70s::aei.org/publication/18…
Take a few minutes to read this excellent analysis of the TPA bill from @kw_watson:: cato.org/blog/whats-rea…
Byron mocks Wordsworth and the Lake Poets in his Dedication to Don Juan::voice.adobe.com/a/2mxZV
Wordsworth’s fame based on a long life, political flip-flops and some childish verses? Byron would heartily agree::newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
HistoryNeedsYou Celebrating Wilberforce and Byron
#art in @CUH_NHS by Quentin Blake. #Cambridge pic.twitter.com/hPpStFURuT
Byron’s outrageous Dedication to Don Juan: a short video #toldwithvoice voice.adobe.com/a/2mxZV
@sdonnan @snlester The ERS model @AndrewRobbMP cites has zero duties/quotas on e.g. US sugar, dairy, peanuts; Japan rice; Canada dairy etc
Mostly tosh (I agree with Walter Mead) but interesting for Sen. Corker laying blame for inaction on IMF quotas on BO::nytimes.com/2015/04/18/bus…
@KevinPGallagher Yep! Expected benefits are small. Trade agreements are overrated, IMO. But Clinton’s TPA terms might kill even small gains.
Clinton puts down some markers on TPA. Seems as clueless as Obama about the role/benefits of trade. #HowLongOhLord::nytimes.com/politics/first…
Price discrimination is dying. “Piracy is a governor in terms of our price in high piracy markets outside the US.”::smh.com.au/digital-life/d…
Oops… change in import regs. will be subject to RIS and some further consultation. Hmm…
Private imports approved; AU to “harmonise [vehicle] standards with international guidelines as quickly as possible”::theaustralian.com.au/business/impor…
Victorian Labor: $5bn on a de-sal plant never used; now $1bn (all up) on not building a road::theaustralian.com.au/business/victo…
Likely structural change in trade/growth RT @sdonnan: Global trade faces poor growth, says WTO. My take for @FT: on.ft.com/1NEyJyi
“Peter Costello…was able to balance the budget with an iron ore price of less than US$36.”::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/04/14/how…
#TPP has been negotiated not in “secret” but in obscurity; a twilight that likely hid deals with rent-seekers. Still, didn’t work for ACTA!
What would have become of Juan had Byron not died before finishing his comic epic, “Don Juan”?::madbaddangerous.com/2015/04/what-w…
“Amateurs. Just amateurs. Our tax dollars at work.”::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/04/12/who…
Peter Walsh, why would you leave now that we need you? (excerpt from:: theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editor…). Valepic.twitter.com/Eb3d3alpNdNd
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I hit the “Download” button in AppStore to get Yosemite 10.10.3. It asks if I want to reinstall 10.2.2l!!! #AppleFail pic.twitter.com/wJhg5plPGO
I hit the “Download” button in AppStore to get Yosemite 10.10.3. It asks if I want to reinstall 10.2.2l!!! #AppleFail pic.twitter.com/9pSmX0Tyf8
“World that wants growth shouldn’t give up on trade”: Patrick Low says the days of dynamic growth need not be over::scmp.com/business/econo…
✔️ Thoughtful criticism by @howserob of Kissinger, Shultz on Iran::bit.ly/1E4dKik
Invite to Cambridge forum on jargon: “[We seek] speakers and attendees who will interrogate this common collocation”::jargonofmenandthings.tumblr.com
mjtsai Mac OS X 10.10.3, just like Xcode: “Manual installers are available from Apple Support Downloads.” No, they are not. support.apple.com/en-us/HT204490
About a first, seminal novel (art/forgery) by Georges Perec, whose “Life: A User’s Manual” is the acme of the art:nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…
#LordByron’s extraordinary, splenetic, Dedication to Don Juan — get an illustrated, audio version:madbaddangerous.com/2015/04/the-de…2
Alike in spirit as in gait RT @1815now: Byron and Scott — both lame — walk stiffly down the stairs side by side. — April 7 1815
dikenson @pwgallagher @SimonEvenett Hell, it’ll be at least 2019 before we see whether the TTIP negotiations trigger even a TTIP deal.
Akman, @SimonEvenett, Low “It is far from clear that TTIP will trigger other major trade deals, [or revive] WTO”::voxeu.org/article/cataly…
The peculiar trajectory of Canto III (Don Juan)::madbaddangerous.com/2015/04/the-pe…
RegencyHistory Mistress of George IV and friend of Lord Byron, Lady Melbourne died #onthisday 6 April 1818. ow.ly/vtfiv pic.twitter.com/LJcbETbX5s
Great fun! A dictionary of quirky Unix software names masquerading as an FAQ::wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName
An “unsurpassable”poem… Don Juan by #Byron. A rebuke to “Romantic self-absorption & Modernist obscurantism”::madbaddangerous.com/2015/04/an-uns…
A new post on MadBadDangerous.com… An annotated Canto III of Byron’s Don Juanmadbaddangerous.com/2015/04/annota…9Q
Why are Aussies fleeing to NZ: it’s the economy, growing unemployment…and dysfunctional AU politics, stupid!::theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-a…
Seems MNEs contribute in total about 30% of low income countries’ budgets::investmentpolicyhub.unctad.org/Blog/Index/42
“Juan, is modest, charming, brave & earnest; even a bit dull. Fortunately, his heroines are anything but…”madbaddangerous.com/2012/02/bad/5c
Byron’s modernity: MT @DiannaRostad: The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain. —Lord#Byronn
“A fourth surprise for many newcomers…[Don Juan] is filled with modern ideas and attitudes”madbaddangerous.com/2012/06/first-…m6
Secrecy surrounding #TPP negotiations both foments rent-seeking and makes dopey conspiracy theories look credible::washingtonpost.com/opinions/trans…
“It’s… repugnant for the United States to impose NME treatment on… a country it has a free trade agreement with”::cato.org/blog/how-will-…