@SincDavidson @Innov_Aus “[Govt must] accept in a world of ubiquitous cryptography that there are many things… it..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UX
Billions blown on Turnbull’s foolish idea-bubbles (local-content subs, pumped-hydro, the NBN “never-work”):: theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Productivity Commission found no evidence bags pollute, kill marine life or clog land-fill. They’re among MOST RECY..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jj
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 abatement”:: accc.gov.au/media-release/…
These Thaler “Anomalies” articles (especially the earlier) look like lotsa fun:: aeaweb.org/journals/jep/s…
In their hearts, some Western governments, too, want what the CPC wants: to hold all the levers:: wsj.com/articles/beiji…
@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)::worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2017/…
Vector pups:”14 people are Petland employees…35 people either recently purchased a puppy… visited a Petland, orcdc.gov/campylobacter/…9PjJAs
”..economics cannot be taught to 19-year olds… [they] are romantics”. Yet DM is more romantic the older she gets::deirdremccloskey.com/docs/graham/na…
@eashimp @snlester Next month?! Seems there’s still some un-ravelling and re-ravelling to do. Plenty of opportuniti..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…IN
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::wsj.com/articles/whirl…
snlester Today we moved down the continuum from free trade towards protectionism. twitter.com/JunckerEU/stat…
SincDavidson We lose as Pearson leaves theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Find ‘emoticons’ ugly? A-scriptive? In 1966 Hervé Bazin (satirically) proposed emotive punctuation::..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…yt
#MH370 disappearance: “Why would such data.. be created for such a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean?”::blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2…
Musk says we must be an ‘interplanetary species’. How is that different fm being an intercity species (except it’s even harder to breathe)?
@dikenson Your data shows courts decide fairly. OK. Still, AD/CVD b.s. is fostered by litigators whose domain is th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…34
@dikenson on Bombadier & NAFTA Ch 19. Still, the “trade bar” is what it says. Litigation is never about mutual gain:forbes.com/sites/danikens…
Yes (Of course, there are high stakes. The future is a “serious matter”, no doubt. Still: improbable, hillarious)::nytimes.com/2017/09/26/opi…?
Supply shortages in energy-rich AU are due entirely to foolish regulation. Turnbull threatens to deepen the mire::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
JohnHCochrane The Grumpy Economist: Health Care Policy Isn’t so Hard johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/09/health…
I’ve been teaching graduate course in trade at Uni Adelaide for a decade. 70% CHN, Asn.,Afr students. Many struggle..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nK