RT @SincDavidson: A productivity fix is doomed https://t.co/M05qtbihux
RT @jgarnaut: Wow. https://t.co/1kkLmDYssO
Isenberg, Bernstein laud compulsory voting that in AU produces politicans too lazy even to check their eligibility — https://t.co/JZicXibROc
@rodrikdani channels Xi Jinping (based on a claim about welfare gains from innovation that looks dead wrong to me):: https://t.co/KCPgb1uiLK
AU High Court invalidates election of Dep. PM + his party’s 2 IC + 3 senators. Rules were clear. A bunch of dopes!::https://t.co/l1JGh8ULKS
@HenryErgas: the duty of govt is to uphold the rule of law & to foster enterprise::https://t.co/J7PUhFEFmB
… Altho’ not to the exclusion of other explanations, including some learning by central banks (how to do less harm).
@ATabarrok observes the Great Moderation continues but we don’t know why it started. My guess is demographic::… https://t.co/obqFliGPmL
“It is not true that accumulation caused the modern Great Enrichmentâ€. McCloskey on the wrongness of Weber::https://t.co/t60Z5Ey5aT
DuPont, MIT & Harvard to provide free, non-exclusive licenses to CRISPR-CAS9 technologies for agricultural research::https://t.co/I0sfpLSo6F
WTO settles into its role as tour operator. Cuts to farm subsidies & agri. tariffs no longer threaten the party in Buenos Aires in December.
“Making the Federation work better would be useful but…†[governments prefer to hide behind this ramshackle mess]::https://t.co/rILzrs68St
@SincDavidson @Innov_Aus “[Govt must] accept in a world of ubiquitous cryptography that there are many things… it… https://t.co/FVXywYqiUX
Billions blown on Turnbull’s foolish idea-bubbles (local-content subs, pumped-hydro, the NBN “never-workâ€):: https://t.co/1RNJkQSNfB
Productivity Commission found no evidence bags pollute, kill marine life or clog land-fill. They’re among MOST RECY… https://t.co/U1qyfZwdjj
The ACCC report on energy markets an indictment of AU federalism. Return tax powers to States; make them answer for their endless screwups.
The 30-50% rise in AU power prices since 2007 is due to gov’t screw-ups on competition, coal & “CO2 abatementâ€:: https://t.co/lL9AC4oOwh
These Thaler “Anomalies†articles (especially the earlier) look like lotsa fun:: https://t.co/nUFAqnfQRF
In their hearts, some Western governments, too, want what the CPC wants: to hold all the levers:: https://t.co/55vVGmFV7Y
@holland_tom Except, you know… the Romans, at least, were syncretist — sort of “tolerant†— and also built stuff, not just tore it down.
EU adds more “think-of-a -number†B-S. accounting to its A/D regs. Now with Added Virtue-Signalling (via @snlester)::https://t.co/hCrC4GiZTy
Vector pups:“14 people are Petland employees…35 people either recently purchased a puppy… visited a Petland, or…â€::https://t.co/JZHH9PjJAs
Here’s a scrap of an essay that pretends to find the (tragic/comic) meaning of “Don Juan†in the first line!::… https://t.co/0lRKgeahuv
“..economics cannot be taught to 19-year olds… [they] are romanticsâ€. Yet DM is more romantic the older she gets::https://t.co/ANp87r9Zxw
@eashimp @snlester Next month?! Seems there’s still some un-ravelling and re-ravelling to do. Plenty of opportuniti… https://t.co/MXQdIrafIN
I voted ‘no’. I endorse tolerance of adult prefrence. But government has no business meddling with a prior (socially superior) institution.
A ‘balanced’ report of crass rent-seeking like this (#Whirlpool has lotsa bad company) gives it too much credit::https://t.co/NRpobpjXCC
RT @snlester: Today we moved down the continuum from free trade towards protectionism. https://t.co/nkPYMCszrH
RT @SincDavidson: We lose as Pearson leaves https://t.co/54P8qGYNuN
Find ‘emoticons’ ugly? A-scriptive? In 1966 Hervé Bazin (satirically) proposed emotive punctuation::… https://t.co/pm5vTnI1yt
#MH370 disappearance: “Why would such data.. be created for such a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean?â€::https://t.co/yncogvQOla