But Niskanen idea needs entitlement control. ID#? RT @SincDavidson: Read to the end “What Would Milton Friedman Say?” on.wsj.com/147VVc7
New OECD trade faciliation (TF) indicators a great metric (is.gd/WD0hPl). But suggest WTO TF deal is much ado about side issues.
Two weeks of dusty cabinets and archive boxes: the records of @iccwbo. A history of the world economy since 1913, viewed from near the top.
@NGruen1 ‘We’ don’t get to dispose of assets. We got zip for our $$. Ford, unions pissed them away. Auto planning was, is a cruel hoax.
Seems Holden’s plan is to lobby their way to profit! Show them the door! 60 years is enough! #drainthetrough http://t.co/pTxbpWms52
Astonishing gall of Nasser, lecturing us on ‘patriotism’ after sucking our wallets dry! Patent disdain for consumers. http://t.co/JK7ecITV6P
For sixty years governments have thrown our billions at car giants, buying only loss and failure. To go on doing this is culpable stupidity!
Why are the Frogs, who make such awful coffee, and have little idea of toast, so bloody good at citrus-y, sharp, deep golden, marmalade?
Growth optimism has long been the safer bet. Bernanke on The Future (with a nod to Keynes’ wager on 100-year growth) is.gd/rMOnCR
RT @alaindebotton: The double betrayal of many a liberal arts education: neither teaches you how to live, nor how to make a living.
Jan Tumlir to Paris ICC conference 1983: trade protection not about employment; essentially an ideological attack on private economic choice
TradeDiversion Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade | Economist econ.st/17yC8ce
RT @SincDavidson: Save the Doing Business reports http://t.co/crz0UxnG59 *ESSENTIAL* indicators. Please support this campaign.
What other labor regs have such great results? 88% of 457 visa workers, 85% of employers very satisfied or satisfied is.gd/MlGDIJ
“Free” web services (email, rss, photos, data) are ever vulnerable to corporate whim. Google, at least, provides this is.gd/Zy0HcB
Off to Paris for a couple of weeks research for centennial history of International Chamber of Commerce.
NDIS draft rules on support (is.gd/kMN96O ) an alarming blank cheque. Sects. 6 & 7 provide indeterminate definitions, thresholds.
Good clarification of Reinhart-Rogoff blooper. Their conclusion seems safe but direction of causality still a puzzle::http://t.co/O1bRBn9br0