Inevitable that the IRC’s would patrol the bounds of the #WTO trade system, holding it in check::http://t.co/4hTq7v2PUb (H/T @snlester)
Holden of the skies. Qantas, a practiced rent-seeker (whose owners are mugs), is becoming an icon of insolence::http://t.co/lNTZ398dBP
“The worst of all worlds: a weakened GrainCorp; & an inefficient export infrastructure that drains taxpayers’ funds”::http://t.co/xG0o7iAoq3
GrainCorp & Qantas decisions should be easy for Abbott. This dithering hints at his mistrust of markets http://t.co/hBjA6ssDKh
India’s top ag. advisors urge income supports in place of ineffective food subsidies (H/T is.gd/ILRlIe)::is.gd/HJbrbZ
In last 50 years China has lifted billions out of crushing poverty. It was markets, not Marx or the Pope that did it::http://t.co/DXXmSk5fMU
ABS survey of aboriginal health + risk factors. Worse than standardised non-aboriginal results on every count! http://t.co/AWZzsi3PGe
Continuing to debate the mess that will be #WTO Bali Ministerial on the WorldTradeLaw site here:: is.gd/AzJoci
SimonEvenett Bad news from Geneva on the #Bali trade talks. Even cutting red tape at customs is too much. #WTO needs a reboot—else future like UNCTAD.
@howserob It would be crazy to ratify Indian unilateralism with a WTO waiver (esp. for a policy that transmits losses to the poor elsewhere)
kw_watson For Free Trade’s Sake, Get IP Out of the TPP huff.to/I9t6sA Read this now so you can think about it over the weekend.
WorldTradeLaw India rejects WTO Peace Clause proposal - The Hindu bit.ly/1bYukBn
howserob The Economist:even if a WTO deal is reached “risk that it will be a hollow one is high.”econ.st/1hZNvjp
Cancer top certified cause of death in Aus. (2012) but median age at death from cancer was 75.5 yrs is.gd/po9Nju
rupertmurdoch Looks like QE keeps going for long time, just making rich richer leaving masses behind, also serious global dislocations.
As a writer I love its tools, regex, but rue @bbedit’s HTML/CSS-specifc Markup menu. MMD or ReST wd. be useful (+ Pandoc?HTML etc if needed)
Gobbledygook with Chinese characteristics. Like 60 years of failed CCP-campaign buttons pinned to a single lapel::http://t.co/nx9jGiyIGa
Fun coding with convergent strabismus::http://t.co/T9gN454LWC
Copyrights, patents longer than ~25 yrs have no social value. Discounted stream of public benefits, if ANY, runs dry::http://t.co/StUVoq11wp
D’loads of my recording of Canto V of #LordByron’s Don Juan now 7,500+::https://t.co/d30zqdYGJu. Other Cantos here::http://t.co/QYB7n4i2F8
Dreadful rubbish from H.C.Coombs at the 1947 Havana conference. The @iccwbo_org delegation was dismayed by such crap:http://t.co/GINFH2ryeO
How many have known Australia Felix except through the frame of a Leonard Long?::http://t.co/RqKOTerUnU http://t.co/K4jrWBKPeR
Need a better word? Access Princeton’s WordNet database using a @keyboardmaestro + automator action on OSX::http://t.co/L4cfItCZ2B
RT @snlester: Should US use treaties to make the world “more like us”? I say no: http://t.co/QdnsJTOmIq
@snlester Enforceable treaties are functional. Agree that may mean ‘deference’ not ‘compliance’ (#WTO). I bet we’ll regret the old hegemon!
@snlester OK, but ‘jaw jaw’ is errant, little-availing (UN 60 yrs). Sovereigns will always project views, power: treaties a preferable means
A Panagariya reviews Indian policies. To become the 3rd largest economy by 2030, needs to boost labor-intensive mfg::is.gd/KtM1SE
The anti-dumping finding against canned Italian tomatoes may only deprive Australians of the benefits of EU subsidies http://t.co/QUR4k49S0N
SimonEvenett What impact on US business of the NSA bugging backlash in Europe? See my piece with Aggarwal at the HBR lnkd.in/bfbsqQd
RT @insteconomics: On 17 December we find out whether Australia is really ‘open for business’ http://t.co/7LPEgrVIga
An beautifully crafted web-publication from the @guardian summarising information and debate over the NSA’s excesses is.gd/KeJYHU
Australian airlines must now abandon these foolish, fussy restrictions, too :http://t.co/sohvCntfuD