Is it time for WTO 2.0?
Richard Baldwin, whose writing I like and whose scholarship I respect, thinks so. But I disagree for reasons I spell out (after summarizing RB’s argum...
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WTO Whimpers
This weekend’s WTO Ministerial meeting in Geneva was unable to agree on how to keep goods and services markets open to trade and competition. That’s...
The mildness of global warming
I don’t doubt any more than you do that the average atmospheric temperature has jumped around a lot but overall has risen a few tenths of a degree in the...
Black calls the kettle Rupert
It is difficult to think of anyone less likely to offer an objective assessment. Conrad Black on why Rupert Murdoch is a “great bad man”. “Although his ...
De Lacy on the Carbon Tax
“Keith De Lacy, chairman of takeover target Macarthur Coal, said yesterday the absence of a viable alternative to coal to fuel Asia’s economic growth w...
Tax cuts the price of MacArthur Coal
The Prime Minister is saying that today’s Peabody bid for Macarthur Coal demonstrates that the Gillard/Brown “coal tax” has not hurt the prospects of the Au...
Flying bind
Qantas—the airline that will soon call Singapore home (?)—says consumers will foot the entire bill for the un-compensated tax on aviation fuel. The air...