None better qualified to assess the destruction AU govts wreck on national energy, telecomms markets by demand, sup..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Ar
“[M]ain insight from our analysis… regulation of professionals is in the interests of professionals not consumers”:papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
USTR Lighthizer could get CHN to behave like a more credible (WTO) “market economy”. But he needs more than bluster..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Pc
New York, 1911 (9min film). Remarkable how familiar it seems. Summer: umbrellas and boaters. Great lens::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Yt
“Turnbull Channels Trump” (Bloomberg). Perhaps a bit hard on Trump? Has he stopped key export sales?::bloomberg.com/politics/artic…
Bad time for LNG : “Australia is about to overtake Qatar as the world’s largest exporter…” (WaPo)::washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
Turnbull’s claims about a “social license” for energy coys and exports “short changing” Australia is mad, alarming::ft.com/content/6411b3…
Turnbull’s cack-handed regulation of gas sales will slow the investment AU needs to secure future gas supplies::mckinsey.com/~/media/McKins…
AU sold $17bn of LNG last year to CHN, KOR, JPN… Turnbull’s export ban will cut investment, forward sales. For what gain? He’s not sure!
Turnbull’s partial LNG export ban a foolish attempt to manage price/supply, validating State govt energy wreckery::abc.net.au/news/2017-06-2…
The most valuable 20th C technology? MNE assets, employees, mangement know-how make a lot of places great (again)::aei.org/publication/as…
Anyway… lovely flowers!::pic.twitter.com/JNsCZOtDxo
realDonaldTrump It was my great honor to welcome President @JC_Varela & Mrs. Varela from Panama this afternoon.🇺🇸🇵🇦
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Recommended: Dianne Coyle on household digital production & the “measured, not-measured” boundary in GDP accounts::escoe.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
Is “interNATIONAL” trade a misleading construct? Trade is a private activity (firms); still, people *want* borders::fee.org/articles/no-su…
“Macron’s party seems set to gain 70% of the seats off a first-round base of 16 per cent of the electorate…” theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/…KNgu
The non-intuitive weight of transport costs. Also why trade facilitation (pre & post barrier costs) are important::krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/a-f…
What would be the future of the AU economy if 20% of all new jobs were created in the “disability care” industry?::pc.gov.au/inquiries/curr…
CHN’s impact on US mfg prices after it joined WTO mostly due to cuts in own tariffs on intermediate goods imports::nber.org/papers/w23487
Three reasons the AU public debt position is worse and worsening faster than the budget’s headline numbers suggest. twitter.com/SincDavidson/s…
WorldTradeLaw Is the US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement a First Salvo against the Special and Differential Treatment? dlvr.it/PKS12q
ATabarrok Iranian media blaming Saudi Arabia for IS attacks in Tehran. Very dangerous sit. Did Trump embolden Saudi Arabia? nytimes.com/2017/06/07/wor…
What condolences should Turnbull, Trump now offer to Iran on ISIS murders? Does their consolation express sympathy or only alliance?
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… and then the Paris accord suffered, among other defects, from GATT’s debilitiating disease (Hudec): corrupting preference.