Ivan Moravec has died. Vale! If you want to know what music means, just listen to this::http://t.co/oFDf69hiDD http://t.co/25GMJHxF4J
My guess (why no @ozprodcom evaluation?!) is #TPP w/out DF+QF for ag. diverts $, effort better spent on #TISA and other WTO plurilaterals.
If rice, sugar, dairy, beef, cotton not headed to DF+QF, will #TPP, #RCEP add any value to FTAs + #TISA for AU, NZ?::http://t.co/pRodLYvftD
Decades of cronyism, destruction of social capital burden MYS:: RT @jayantmenon: #Malaysia’s mess is Mahathir-made goo.gl/olr5sID7
Looks like Warner’s idiotic claim of copyright on ‘Happy Birthday’ is in trouble::https://t.co/nzv7YmSOn8
RT @1815now: Byron doesn’t sell. His estates fail to reach reserves, Newstead being bought in at 95,000 guineas and Rochdale at £16,000. — …
insteconomics .@davidedgarwolf @tylercowen or just plain ridiculous.
“The game story space of professional sports: Australian Rules Football”. Narrative stats analysis (h/t @tylercowen)::arxiv.org/abs/1507.03886
@leemakiyama @snlester Services before ag? For impact, sure. But services reform alone wd. hike effective. protection for sugar, rice, dairy
My #TPP wish-list: subst. “clean” -ve list on services modes 1-3 + innov. Mode 4; JPN, USA, CAN to open food mkts; no addl. IP; CHN invited.
Debate on CHAFTA impacts is mostly fact-free. Justifies @ozprodcom call for formal evaluation of goals, outcomes ::http://t.co/6QgUe1AGmq
More tax!!? AIHW shows no reason to support additional revenue to support health expenditure::http://t.co/2YhQ97Tre5
Foolish Abbott govt should facilitate not prejudice global agricultural production networks w/ ugly, mandatory CoOL::http://t.co/WYSxkNNzLG
Benefits of FTAs are far #overrated. @ozprodcom suggestion for pre+post review wd. show it (so will be pooh-poohed)::http://t.co/If5rsa6ywb
✔ï¸âœ@ozprodcomzprodcom: Chairman’s opening statement to Joint Select Committee.., on Free Trade Agrow.ly/PS6SNnUTWufq0
Of course, the scope of any ITA revision depends on the schedules adopted next year::http://t.co/ApuNZteb04
A revised ITA finally? “Today’s deal marks a major step forward for innovation and commerce globally†(h/t @sdonnan)::http://t.co/TLbWg33kNQ
Elizabeth Drew: “This is a historical moment… it’s about the efficacy of negotiations versus military action.â€::http://t.co/jwtepj48fC
Some triumphs, too. RT @snlester: .@JeffDSachs describes some ugly aspects of US foreign policy…: http://t.co/7TgYXqXqB
H. Ergas “[A]fter the turmoil of the last month, what little remains of the European Âproject also lies in tatters.”::http://t.co/VqS0RtfN6S
Iran deal — much more significant than Greek farce —winning solid technical chops (yes, of course they’ll game it)::http://t.co/2hRJs26zwl
✔ï¸How rare these have become! Engagement is good.”Iran’s nuclear deal is a testament to the power of diplomacy”::http://t.co/BCCys0NT8y
RT @SincDavidson: If you think this the Greek deal is a coup, you’re an idiot http://t.co/Dv82g6uVmB via @FinancialReview
“Shirley MacLaine plays an elevator attendant…this is actually a romance between a button and a spreadsheet cellâ€:http://t.co/MSxtSDUyPw
Byron’s lyric “The Isles of PDF Greece…” (1821) is a bitter satire contrasting Greeks’ heroic past & present fear of choosing freedom.
Abbott’s only calculus now is politics. Climate? Hah! Consolation for firms that lost renewable energy subsidies::http://t.co/9xJxXzrVFX
That Pew Research chart via @sdonnan
pewresearch Chart: How many people around the world live on how much pewrsr.ch/1JPKy2v pic.twitter.com/8ubfG0KKu4
Robb pigeon-holes #TPP critics:”They are anti-trade… they want the world to stay as it is”. Hope he knows better::http://t.co/0esoGbjbOZ
“The greatest threat to civilisation since World War II..?” If your answer is “What are WMDs?”, you’re just soo 90’s!:http://t.co/TrsBPlAkbf
Perhaps more relevant to Greece than GER debt; the Adenauer/Erhard “wirtschaftswunder†fostered by DM devaluation, mkt. liberalisation.
Story that GER defaulted on its “debts†fm. WWI keeps running. But AFAIK this is pretty accurate. Last payments 2010::http://t.co/z6BPCm0kxI
✔︔Help Greece Leave the Euro”::http://t.co/OArEhvycwd
About this consensus on the terrible disaster that would follow #Grexit, when did the predictions of macroeconomists become credible again?
@g_mastropavlos @gavinschallio @howserob in fact GER repaid all of assessed WWI “debt”. France & others reached a settlement with US Tsy.
Syzria irresponsible on debt; Greece suffers income cuts without reform. But it should now vote no. Greeks’ best hope lies outside the Euro.
✔︔Rationing makes the actual welfare cost of price controls much higher than the standard deadweight loss triangle”::http://t.co/xSIi4BOE5B
@MattMurray8 @sdonnan Two-way AUS trade has grown since 2005 by 40% measured in nom. $A esp. AU imports (ag. growth not #AUSFTA explains)
@MattMurray8 @sdonnan OK. To clarify, those are $A export data. I see Zoellick is talking 2-way trade.
@MattMurray8 @sdonnan Query Zoellick’#AUSFTA1010 data. Fm UN TradeMap $A(nom) growth =19% merch, 20% srvcs (2005-latest) vs 92%|35% to World
SimonJCowan A better #TPP - Australia signs a free trade agreement with itself and immediately demands the reduction of all tariff barriers #auspol
“Wolfgang Kasper on the Euro”(http://t.co/vrNi1pAf0V). WK has long been a favourite; click-thru to read the article.