4 good ideas for G-20, but 20th C showed trade opening must be pushed from the top. By whom? Obama? Xi? Merkel? Abe?::goo.gl/0oDgXN
Exile to PNG? Turn back? Why not sink some boats? That will stop! Better to share in opportunities immigrants want to create for themselves.
RT @SincDavidson: ACCC hates competition accc.gov.au/media-release/… … and isn’t so fond of consumers, either!
Circuses used to be for the crowd: now, they’re for the clowns is.gd/sKKO36
Elinor Ostrom mapped the roots of government. Sits beside Mancur Olson in the pantheon (thanks @JulieKNovak)::ow.ly/mCMC0
kw_watson What ever happened to negotiating freer trade? RT @insidetrade: TPP Members Resist Criminalizing Trade Secret Theft bit.ly/13TI9ZU
“Are World Trading Rules Passé?” You bet! Agreements badly out-dated. But is private international law a substitute::bit.ly/164HyY8
dikenson 18th century industry “looms” large in 21st century trade negotiations. tinyurl.com/kh2p9zl #trade #tpp
Things that don’t come in a bottle: “opium, champoing, and other luxuries indulged in by oriental sensualists”:: goo.gl/8OTLB
Keynes 1926 essay End of Laissez-Faire:: is.gd/n9L4Vo Advocates quangos, dissects self-socialisation of large private enterprises.
GrumpyStKilda Soft launch of new Middle Eight Music website. Not sure yet if we have all the bugs ironed out! middle8.com
Rudd says PNG deal “bound to run into many unanticipated problems”. Same old KR. Policy on the fly. Costs unknown, alternatives unexamined.
This is a punt: official data & best estimates are pretty close RT @TradeDiversion: Krugman: “China is in big trouble”mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/opi…
China wheat crop failures + low global inventory >> grain price spikes >> windfalls + trouble. reuters.com/article/2013/0…
This is fun: “Anti-smoking Australia prevails in dry run of WTO dispute.” Wd be hard to best the canny Joost Pauwelyn:is.gd/gamXSE
Reading Arthur Lewis “Economic Survey 1919-1939” for my history of the Int. Ch of Commerce. A difficult period brilliantly summed up.
Don Juan Canto 1 is.gd/1Cd87c (79886 d’loads); Canto V is.gd/lb8QPL (7098); Cantos 13-16 is.gd/lb8QPL (2961).
AFP denies FOI request on monitoring of Twitter: says “it would damage the international relations of the C’wth…” goo.gl/5tIgx
Learning to obey my Up sleep & activity monitor. Wrist band buzzes to get me away from screen after 30 mins. pic.twitter.com/myarX3ZgCc
Just say ‘no’. It’s the only way to wean GM from the public tit. They love it when nanny tells them how to get more::goo.gl/9fftN
“The classics are all political” (goo.gl/S8wRq). How true! Cloud of Lies begins with a similar discovery::amazon.com/Cloud-of-Lies-…
Incidence of smoking seems very similar in USA & Australia despite our huge taxes, labelling laws. Evidence of what?goo.gl/CdNno
“Dumping is…effectively cheating”. Head of the new A-Dumping Authority is effectively lying about competition:: goo.gl/nasMf
Worried what NSA/ASIO… may find in your email meta-data? You could DIYimmersion.media.mit.edut1) but ROW data will show a different network!
“Well, f**k them, and f**k that”. M Arment on Google’s sacrifice of Reader & RSS to Google+. Couldn’t agree more::goo.gl/7Mbqc
DEShellenberger Obesity Is Not a Disease cato.org/publications/c… via @CatoInstitute
In my essay for @LowyInstitute I say TPIP negotiations, now started, could shrink, not expand, global trade horizons::lowyinstitute.org/files/g20_moni…
Wow, Expressionist colors! How, y’know, hip, is that! (um…Die Brücke, circa 1905?):goo.gl/THbebcpic.twitter.com/BQIo0xEbeCeC
The outside of an envelope is not private info. But does that justify undisclosed, speculative, surveillance of mail::goo.gl/MAkZm
Sheridan too generous to Rudd. No grasp of foreign economic policy, no priorities but vanities, his deals all fluff::goo.gl/DowyQ
WAPO: NSA gets PRISM data ‘directly from the servers’ of Google:: goo.gl/LREOz How? The dogs of cyberwar? amazon.com/Cloud-of-Lies-…