Most treaties look backward: many are DOA. LOS, negotiated painfully 40 years ago, works. Still the USA dithers! on.wsj.com/KV7Q6O
Unilateral tariff liberalisation : terrific short article by Richard Baldwin on globalisation/supply chain impacts rdd.me/qn0ruroo
Ericsson, $1bn contractor to NBN, says 2x broadband speed = +0.3% GDP. Extrapolation based on 2 years’ (!!!) data. ericsson.com/news/1550083
Excellent Tim Wilson account of giant winners from the carbon tax swindle::goo.gl/teCAq
Absence of complementary assets and steep technology gradient sink electric car sales, for now on.wsj.com/Jt118W
Turnbull gets stuck into shoddy ACCC endorsement of NBN-OPTUS deal to eliminate cable competition. Terrific speech. goo.gl/rEkgR
Post/zip codes should work like IDD codes: optionally add a country prefix to a local code.
Salon: CIA phoney vaccination program run by Pakistani doctor, now jailed, a horrifying act with children as victims http://t.co/kt7m3WLX
alanbeattie Wouldn’t it be *ace* if everyone understood the concepts of counterfactuals, opportunity costs & the fungibility of money? #nerdwonktweet
@timwilsoncomau Apples = the negotiator’s friend. Jet-lagged, 3am wrangles a horror. Eating an apple keeps the body alert. Tried it. Works!
Unlike China, USA has a fountain of youth that’s just starting to flow (immigration will help,too) http://t.co/kMTXSKr2
H Ergas on the political history of wasteful redistribution: brilliant! goo.gl/kjTC6
Seeking that happy volume where Bach penetrates, but gloomy-earnest ABC chatter drowns in the washing machine’s slush and slurry
In any airport: amazing how alienating the repeated tonal riffs and thumps become when the wine is too poor to provide relief…
J Sloan: proposed “illegal logging” import ban is protectionism not environmentalism ( goo.gl/hIoQq). Agree!
@insteconomics Wilson doesn’t explain how Canberra gatekeepers can pretend to predict firms’ behaviour/success here. Give FIRB the brush!
#Ahed brewery by-products in Oz are all fluids and gasses. Vegemite (umami) flavours originate elsewhere.
GE Money 28-Degrees credit card fraud-protection crap. Barred for 24 hrs (even after calling!) for trying to use 50% of my credit. Scissors!
Japan nuke free (and dimmer) for the first time in forty years zite.to/ISFedx
Hollande sets the test of his success: “have I advanced equality?” Easy! The route to greater equality is all downhill! http://t.co/pUmoQ8jx
In Honolulu for academic confab on economic aspects of USA-Aust alliance in 21st C. Bombay-tonics on Waikiki buzz with harmony, prosperity
alanbeattie It’s basically like watching a caffeinated up-all-night squirrel nipping at a slightly dopey just-got-up owl. #LeDebat
When Jean-Marie Le Pen tortured his father to death before his family in 1957, this boy stole and hid Le Pen’s dagger.. lemonde.fr/tiny/1694213/
@otixo imagine if Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive were all down four hours at the same time. Can’t use a service that makes that a reality
#unimelb Prof Tania Voon’s analysis of a difficult WTO health-trade decision: US ban on kretek cigs. http://t.co/GYRKvFEM
USTR Releases Ridiculous ‘Naughty’ Special 301 List For Countries Who Don’t Pass Silly Laws Hollywood Wants zite.to/IDAmZy via @Zite