dikenson Reconcile this! OECD shows US dairy subsidies=$6.7 billion; NZ dairy subsids=$0. US dairy says keep NZ out of US bc unfairly supported. #TPP
Bizarre nostalgia for cold-war policies. Trade is a private activity that “the hands of diplomats” usually botch. twitter.com/BowerCSIS/stat…
“[Jobs] was into how things looked more than how they are. He was imho a Disneyfier”::scripting.com/liveblog/users…
“[Jobs] was into how things looked more than how they are. He was imho a Disneyfier”::scripting.com/liveblog/users…
Seems the Great Moderation continues, but… “Feeble expansions may be the price to pay for low volatility”::voxeu.org/article/greatn…
Stil… by their fruits ye shall know them, not by WEF indicestwitter.com/purcellpw/stat…NU
Whole purpose of trade argmts. to limit national autonomy. Both big & small cheat (see GATT/WTO)… but carefully :->twitter.com/snlester/statu…ro
@RomanHardgrave @tylercowen He’s a clever economist & an engaging speaker. Loved the wit of the animations, too. Juggling my favourite.
Brilliant @tylercowen video on econ. policy conundrums for CHN. Great script, wonderful post prod’n::marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
First use of this (wto.org/english/news_e…) new WTO food & health dispute mediation procedure, from @snlester::worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2015/…
“New video on demand services, such as Netflix, have contributed to the (33%) decline in [movie] piracy [in AU]”::delimiter.com.au/2015/10/20/why…
“What do you think of me?”… I replied, ” I look on you as a spoilt child of genius, an epicycle in your own circle.” Byron, Ldy Blessington
“If I know myself, I should say, that I have no character at all”: Byron to Ldy. Blessington, 1823
“TPP signatories shouldn’t rule out a renegotiation that ultimately diminishes the commercial value of the deal.”ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1…
Detailed discussion of a confused climate debate & role of CO2 in preservation of life fm Greenpeace founder Moore:”thegwpf.com/28155/
How screwed up is Adobe CC Photos? Been waiting hours for ‘update’ to d/l. Ignoring phantom ‘update’ to Acrobat DC! pic.twitter.com/SIIxgjJMIV
Wharton #China’s entry into the #TPP would be a real achievement for the next #POTUS: bit.ly/1PjKo4B, says Dean @garrett_geoff
The biologics nonsense @kw_watson nails possible because “secrecy” in negs has become exclusivity for rent-seekers twitter.com/kw_watson/stat…
Clinton & #TPP “If [economists] had reason to doubt her mendacity, then they would start to get worried”:gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-feat…
H Clinton declines to support the #TPP deal using a sort of ‘infant industry’ argument: USA not resilient to trade::pic.twitter.com/OdDFiteFTL
dikenson The #TPP deal contains few yarn-forward exceptions. NCTO reportedly “satisfied.” NCTO’s satisfaction is paid for by poor people everywhere.
CoppetainPU Reuters, on the possibility that #TPP IP deal could put downward pressure on US biotech drug prices twitter.com/ReutersBiz/sta…
Starting on the recording of Canto VIII: the assault on Ismail. “Oh blood and Thunder! Oh blood and Wounds!”
Adblocking? To the extent it affects publishers’ revenues, I predict more on-line content in form of videos (damnit!):on.ft.com/1iZ6fli
Well… (1) who do you think is paying the duties now? (Prob. not NZ exporters). (2) Begs q’s about consequent changes in market shares.
#TPP data like this will be everywhere in the next few days. But numbers in the 3rd column probably rubbish. Why? pic.twitter.com/Np0QUjETW2
@kim_weatherall @NGruen1 Breeches the ‘do no harm’ rule. Even 50 years (TRIPS) is unjustified by the social benefit of © monopolies.
Large trade agreements like #TPP take longer to build than super colliders. Impacts just as hard to analyse. Most stuff today probably wrong
dikenson Good summary but suggestion of cong. vote in early primary season way too ambitious. Btw July & Jan ’17 more likely. twitter.com/DavidNakamura/…
Annotating Byron’s “Don Juan”, Canto I, stanza 222. Echoes of Pope’s Imitation of Horace (Epistles II.ii), here… pic.twitter.com/DDZS4MiOgB
Well I guess you just can’t hurry love…twitter.com/sdonnan/status…dE
@MarionGroves @alan_john_moran Yes. Unfortunate that the police shot the evidence (again)!
AnnaVidot Robb: Aust & US acting in good faith, “but fact is we’ve got different systems and just splitting it down the middle is not the answer. #TPP
bill_easterly If Singapore’s autocracy is so popular, why does it remain an autocracy? bit.ly/1M8cXge
#Adobe insists I update a CC product (Acrobat DC) that I don’t own. When I try to ‘uninstall’ Acrobat DC they erase my licensed Acrobat XI.
@sdonnan @Westin Feel for you. In trade negotiations you eat, pee whenever you can (if you leave the table you loose). Hope @Westin fixed it
kim_weatherall Stand firm! twitter.com/Johnkehoe23/st…
So flawed its processes & so muddled its goals, the #TPP has given “Uncle Joe” Stiglitz an opportunity to be right::project-syndicate.org/commentary/tra…
Learning from experience: “A sort of income-tax laid on by fate” (DJ I, 1460). Wm Pitt first taxed income in 1799 pic.twitter.com/FUhSHOCUKQ
Oops… switching accounts (Tweetdeck!). Zawinski? You’re kidding, I guess. Stil@eaglefilerer wd. make a damned fine back end for a mail app.
@mjtsai Ugh! Maybe it could use some hints on indexing from @eaglefiler :-)
@mjtsai @mailmateapp took about an hour to download 32k messages from @FastMailFM imap servers. Main inbox populated first afaik.