@snlester Great response. Litigious ISDS framework certain to create new avoidance strategies. More obscure government intervention in FDI.
snlester “Defenders of the [ISDS] system haven’t really offered much evidence of the problem they are trying to fix.” cato.org/blog/respondin…
@snlester Will TPP members have a right to exclude ISDS as a condition of “approval” of (non-tobacco) foreign M&A’s, greenfields FDI?
”..HRC is subject to ministerial direction” & to partisan appointment (@timwilsoncomau), but shd have a long leash::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/human-…
“[I]ntervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards”. Another on the long tragic list::foreignaffairs.com/articles/14304…
iccwbo @iccwbo @USCIB Symposium has now kicked off. 6 reasons why @wto #TFA implementation matters #MiamiTrade pic.twitter.com/G9UEVGi3Av
“Prison Sentences Much Longer than Juries Would Like”. Grist for public choice analysis of sentencing laws?::econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/…
Hope this rosy view of Shanghai free-trade zone is right. Many AUS-CHN FTA services commitments anchored there::voxeu.org/article/china-…
Brief, useful data, right approach IMO; @SincDavidson slides on tax facts, reform::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/02/23/tax…
“This was a message that should have been delivered in Parliament”::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
The Queen’s Governor-General cannot compose even a simple declaration in our language. “It is notified that…” Ugh!theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/ro…pV
Abbott wants more powers but it seems snoops have already stolen SIM encryption keys to listen to your phone calls::firstlook.org/theintercept/2…
@morvjn If you mean that now we find it easier to suspend our disbelief in murder than our disbelief in ideas as the origin of power, yep!
Two years re-watching 150+ episodes of The West Wing. So optimistic, earnest. Such fine writing, drama. Still… the world did not change.
“Australia has close to the most progressive redistribution system among developed nations”. Interesting data::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Most sickening thing about the Hep. A link to berries imported fm CHN is the knee-jerk protectionism of AU growers::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
snlester Governments “shall not, by exchange action, frustrate the intent of the” GATT worldtradelaw.net/uragreements/g… So, FWIW, we have currency rules now
My 2009 novel Cloud of Lies (Amazon) describes governments’ addiction to malware, snooping & effect on open Internet::arstechnica.com/security/2015/…
“The stupidest thing I’ve ever done is stop taking the drug”[nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/the-di… article on ageing and rapamycin:: cis.org.au/publications/p…
Abbott’s unjustified $15m (cumulative) review threshold on foreign farm investment hurts, farmers, ag. bus., growth::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Wait! Google maps is only ten years old?!::recode.net/2015/02/08/ten…
“Abbott isn’t… able to repair the budget deficit, nor drive … the reforms necessary to get the economy goingcatallaxyfiles.com/2015/02/08/the…Bmb9
Will future global economic ‘governance’ respond to, or hinder @iccwbo support for free enterprise and open markets? petergallagher.com.au/index.php/site…
Incremental rice, pork quotas, beef ‘safeguard’ triggers, zombie auto duties! Is this a “21st century” trade deal!?::japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/0…
themetresgained David Uren is like a breath of fresh air. Doesn’t matter who the leader is. This needs fixing theaustralian.com.au/news/storm-clo…
The G-20 evidently can’t do its job (navigate out of the financial markets mess) so it strikes poses. China next-up::project-syndicate.org/commentary/chi…
@kw_watson @snlester cold-filtration, a.k.a. ‘ultra-filtration’. Around for years. Coke/Nestlé make bucketsa $ fm hyped water, why not milk?
Transformative? Alas, yes. W/out China, #TPP threatens A-Pac trade blocs. RT @dikenson: Clayton Yeutter on the #TPP: thehill.com/blogs/congress…
The 16C “time of troubles” in Russia’s national mythology; a perspective on Yeltsin, Putin and Ukraine::historytoday.com/greg-carleton/…