Last para of Intro: (Oops,) it’s actually a nice place. It has problems. It’s doomed (‘cause I can tell the future)::twitter.com/nzinitiative/s…
Adam_Creighton Good on Heydon for staying. Ridiculous storm in teacup. We pay judges to suspend their inevitable biases. #turc
Milton Glazer illustration for Isaac Asimov’s “Annotated Don Juan”. Wonderful book::twitter.com/1815now/status…
A gravity model applied to ancient trade: OK, interesting, probably. But the NYT story terribly confused about GM’s nytimes.com/2015/08/30/mag…
Sharding & replication (from @timbray). Source of fraud @Google in “Cloud of Lies” (2009, amazon.com/Cloud-Lies-Pet…) tbray.org/ongoing/When/2…
@KazutoYamaki enjoyed @mingthein report of your ideas. Endorse his request for a FF Foveon mirrorless; preferably compatible w/ FE glass.
“It is a mistake to focus… education on job-specific skills that a changing world will render redundant” John Kay:: ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0…
What trinity? Govts insist on their own fiscal poison so the fix is always on either exch. rates or capital controls:twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/…
Still, merch. trade only. Poor BOP data give us an inadequate sense of what is happening in services esp. Mode 3::twitter.com/SimonEvenett/s…
Neither making a list nor even checking it twice will help. To govern is to do or not do, test both, revise, repeat::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/08/25/adv…
@CoppetainPU Ta! Bought before the market opened (hate to see a good panic go to waste). Nice bounce before it closed. Up on the day: joy 😀
Finished recording Canto VII (barring errors). Brief, some difficult passages, but honest, active, sharp, funny, exotic. Byron at his best.
Hmm…there’s a big sale on! Some nice bargains. Bought a few bio-med and quite a bit of LNG(!) before Chinese investors snap them up.
Recording Don Juan VII shortest of the Cantos. Possibly “decapitated” when Byron, staggered by the blows of early 1822, relaunched his epic.
Oddity, known to Byron as “Polly-dolly”. Engaged as his physician on the voyage into exile; became an irritation. twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/sta…
SincDavidson Forcing GST on imports doesn’t stack up abc.net.au/news/2015-08-2… via @ABCthedrum
DavidKleimann ‘Textile investments flow into Vietnam ahead of TPP’ just-style.com/analysis/texti…
SincDavidson “competitive neutrality” excuse for GST tax grab. @JoeHockey engaged in protectionism. #whynotaxcutsjoe
Mode 4 in CHAFTA is not the only way to import CHN workers. Labor opposition overblown, ineffective, shortsighted::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9…
Sort of scary “Researchers tested CRISPR-based implementations of the (“gene
-drive”) idea in yeast and fruit flies”::econ.st/1E7m3fm
Hah! As if.. RT @Wordsworthians: Byron ‘shakes the dust of England from his shoes’ in the @WordsworthTrust collection bit.ly/1vqtpVk
Isabella Kaminska rips into the history of the PRC and the “impossible trinity” in familiar bloody-minded fashion ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/14/213…
AllegraByron194 Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley bbc.in/1PqiFgV
He tended to fat: “Lord Byron,first weighed on January 4 1806 at the age of 17 ‘in boots but no hat’, was 13st 12lb.”ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a…
@librivox recordings of 6 Cantos of Don Juan (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_…, scroll to bottom) are early; new versions of all 16+ coming (slowly)
@CoherentCrap thank you so much; Peter’s approval of the Canto One recording is high praise, a treasure. twitter.com/CoherentCrap/s…
CoherentCrap Brilliant *Peter Cochran Approved* Audiobook of ‘Don Juan’ by @MadBadDangerous - youtube.com/watch?v=YDOM13…
#Byron
WorldTradeLaw Why free trade agreements don’t really deliver free trade - Fortune bit.ly/1gF44Cg
The @jgarnaut article is less shocking and more interesting than this suggests::twitter.com/jgarnaut/statu…
Clever, guess we’re down to fix-ups now? RT @DPearson_mn: How to maximize agricultural trade expansion in #TPP? […] bit.ly/1IKZITR
“The purely Byronic is thus… a mere outline sketch for the truly Byronian.” Jacques Barzun theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… pic.twitter.com/0rsFV9X934
An “exciting combination of strong formal construction [and] an unpredictable epic story line” 52books.me/2015/07/17/29-… pic.twitter.com/iDoxUbmKqg
“Food sector foreign investment curbs stink of protectionism”, David Uren::theaustralian.com.au/business/opini…
SimonEvenett Is China engaging in a competitive devaluation? I pour cold water on this argument in my take on Beijing’s move, see mydigitalfc.com/op-ed/why-did-…
Why not “balanced” support for theories of perpetual motion or witch-burning? Or macro-economic modelling (oh wait…)
“Moderate” support for costly ineffective measures that no robust evidence supports is “pollism” not good governance::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/coalit…
TheEIU_China Renminbi’s decline today still looks modest vs scale of its climb against other currencies in 2014-15. #China #RMB pic.twitter.com/Mtx6MIJ0Pa
Chill! That much-tweeted arctic sea-ice map tells (only the northern) half of the story. Recent warming is gentle. pic.twitter.com/f5yC5vdBQr
Judy_LaLectora “The Poetical Works of Lord Byron”, 1887 cc @AllegraByron194 pic.twitter.com/JCw2MWMJP6
insteconomics Foreign investment: FIRB scaring away capital, warns CPC theaustralian.com.au/business/forei…
“Canada is, in fact, at the centre of both major obstacles to a TPP deal” No surprise,alas::theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/…
That last tweet quoted Andrew Robb, AU trade minister. Apologies for the creative spelling.
A. Dobb “I keep saying to the Americans it is a deal to reduce protection, not increase it or maintain it.”::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
J Garnaut is probably right about the #TPP timing problem. This looks like failure for Obama’s agenda. A stuff up::smh.com.au/world/in-tpp-t…