Fascinating enterprise. The chameleon meme-factories of (South) China. Recommended::https://t.co/fk0jxpOgxZ
“… [T]hat preindustrial economies more than two centuries ago were stagnant is not trueâ€::https://t.co/jVf0yEgeUP https://t.co/XN8MXweIgz
Ridley & Peiser’s moderate & interesting guide to the mad Paris “Climate Change” rent-seekers’ festival::https://t.co/DMYJ2PM2hU
Maybe a short paper in honour of P.C.’s work on Don Juan & assoc. texts. About why Don Juan is *still* clever fun!::https://t.co/LZxwuq1SVB
#WTO agriculture “negotiators” play it safe with agenda from 2004-5. Little risk of dialogue let alone agreements::https://t.co/r78PQOGBjU
RT @LukeMalpassAFR: AFR Editorial: Beware the @The_Nationals @Greens axis of inwardness. https://t.co/iVYn7v9w8O #auspol #ForeignOwned http…
“If Satan played miniature golf…”::https://t.co/eAvXU3JPYn
Good news (for now)::https://t.co/oJcQgvfJl7
AU govt. hits foreign investors with another foolish, unwarranted ban. Sop to their witless rural political allies ::https://t.co/QIH51lhdOe
@dirtdon @viticci So “We made a change we didn’t test & turned out we screwed you so we changed it back (or both). Hah! We should worry!”
@snlestern Interesting! Neither AU nor NZ was warm to the idea and perhaps the 1980’s TV quota case showed ISDS is unnecessary. Still…
Low mean, median trade growth in charts a concern. But is this skew unusual? Product-bin-size effects?::https://t.co/EJtdNPhmYA
@JohnMcNeil6 Trying to see the link between your promised moustache (!) and the prostate registry, but failing. Eagerly await enlightenment.
ITCnews World Tariff Profiles 2015 is out! A great source for complete info on #tariffs bit.ly/1WO5fCT #ITCbooks pic.twitter.com/Q7Uio5vqWz
@alan_john_moran on Lomborg paper. Then, these risible temp. cuts depend on #IPCC’s dubious sensitivity estimates::https://t.co/6rFMFaHrvt
Lomborg (https://t.co/fu7ttCu1Pk)… “An astronomically large price for an unmeasurably small cooling” (https://t.co/07LbL4B9e8)
John H Jackson’s “World Trade & the Law of GATT” once, required reading for AU GATT/WTO reps. History now. Vale::https://t.co/nXJXw0yssz.
#TPP, a “21st century trade agreement,” locks-in 19th cent. anti-competition rules that ignore how trade (net)works::https://t.co/KhoFn7nU2G
Ian Harper wants public benefit test for #TPP IP provisions. Yes! What wd remain of © from such a test? Not much!::https://t.co/KlwmihxECP
@SimonEvenett No, you just need to get out more ;-) #tradeagreementsoverrated
Agreed! A cack-handed innovation by Twitter (🖕). I suppose we’re fortunate they didn’t choose 💋 https://t.co/4Wq007deGQ
Cuter… n’est-ce ppic.twitter.com/4aLnQ8rbgvrbgv
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(… damn, this is too hard!) https://t.co/C3fX5mtEZl
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#TPP encourages registration of smells as trademarks. Consumer information in the smell of fresh bread, mown lawns, the aroma of VW exhaust?
On first reading, no surprises in IP chapter: elaborate, intrusive, overlong restrictions on enterprise for the sake of narrow private gain.
#TPP preserves the xenophobic, superfluous irritations of AU foreign investment “review” (Services & Investment annexes as N-C measures).
The negative-list AU services schedule in the AU-CHN FTA was apparently lifted from the #TPP schedule (surprise!). Looks very similar.
Hoorah! AU Tariff goes to zero (afaics) under #TPP… Still, Art. 6.8.1 preserves the foul inventions of Anti-dumping permitted by #WTO
bbaschuk #TPP Text Available Here: bit.ly/1kcevzs
Higher deposit rates may be needed if China’s 2-child policy increases supply of brides, cuts dowry competition?::on.ft.com/1Ns3KnU
Summers seems to say “Keynesian macro must work, else what wd be the point of it?” Yup! :: https://t.co/ARfdXnn7rl
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