By coincidence (?) this was slide #7 in my “Business of Trade” course this afternoon. Slide #6 was:..twitter.com/i/web/status/7…Ff
“When net exports are negative… this subtracts from growth” (Trump Econ aide, Peter Navarro). See… AU is shrinkipic.twitter.com/tJfxtGsCResCRe
@keyboardmaestro Clever, but… I’ve defaulted to KBM. All my Hyper-Key macros now ALSO have Option+double-alpha-key-trigger. Just works.
MacOS 10.12 silently changed 3-letter month names in AU location to 3-letter-plus-period. Screws with Lightroom catalog + scripts!
@kw_watson At least its a (kinda) argument for border tax reduction. The practice of “grossing up” duties and VAT is certainly a swindle.
iOS 10.0.2 “Addresses an issue that could prevent headphone audio controls from temporarily not working”. Not sure this is a good idea.
“The cynic or the screwball? Shall we go to the bad place or the crazy place…” Peggy Noonan is always interestingwsj.com/articles/the-y…EX
victomato 2016, ya’ll. pic.twitter.com/M0AZceVagQ
@D_A_Irwin Look forward to reading your conclusion either way. I wd say Brexit is a social choice (w/ econ consequences), not trade policy.
Seems @D_A_Irwin’s new history of US trade policy concludes optimistically: “The End of Trade Policy?” If only…dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/docs/T…xC
The status of UK’s WTO obligations is a somewhat theological question. I’m attracted to this de-mystified approach::worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2016/…
Despite current revisionism, CHN has repudiated Maoist attacks on bourgeois values more explicitly than the West has repudiated its own.
McCloskey identifies (historic) fundamental values of capitalism. No reason to doubt they are shared in CHN, AU::amazon.com/Bourgeois-Virt…
Can states w/ different ‘values’ (AU-CHN) achieve econ integration? Maybe; official ‘values’ don’t matter that much::theaustralian.com.au/business/china…
Would have guessed Zuckerberg (of all people) knew innovation doesn’t come out of big funds. What’s the real goal?::wsj.com/articles/zucke…
insteconomics Multi-gigabit, low cost and easier to deploy than fibre. Your NBN killer might be here motherboard.vice.com/read/att-airgi…
Every good deed punished. Twice in 20th C, UK gave ’000k lives + much of its global wealth to save Europe fm itself::telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/1…
#TPP is not the agreement we were looking for. But it will do good. And needs must (in AU, too). twitter.com/CatoTrade/stat…
D_A_Irwin My letter on the trilemma and Milton Friedman @TheEconomist: Letters to the editor econ.st/2cxINsy via @TheEconomist
@dikenson @snlester Does conceding ISDS boost MNE FDI in low-income ctrys? AFAIK there’s no evidence. Legal complexity with low returns.
Articulate defence of disruptive Trump. Still, known-bad means will never secure good ends::amgreatness.com/2016/09/12/dec… pic.twitter.com/NpTYUL5rTq
Great Stagnation analysis (like this from Fed Reserve) rely too much on superficial impressions of tech frontiers::medium.com/@neelkashkari/…
dikenson Should Free Traders Support the #TPP? cato.org/blog/read-cato…
snlester Does ISDS let MNCs undermine sovereignty of world’s poorest countries? Coming soon from the WaPo In Theory blog. washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory…