Last para of Intro: (Oops,) it’s actually a nice place. It has problems. It’s doomed (‘cause I can tell the future)::twitter.com/nzinitiative/s…
Adam_Creighton Good on Heydon for staying. Ridiculous storm in teacup. We pay judges to suspend their inevitable biases. #turc
A gravity model applied to ancient trade: OK, interesting, probably. But the NYT story terribly confused about GM’s nytimes.com/2015/08/30/mag…
Sharding & replication (from @timbray). Source of fraud @google in “Cloud of Lies” (2009, amazon.com/Cloud-Lies-Pet…) tbray.org/ongoing/When/2…
@KazutoYamaki enjoyed @mingthein report of your ideas. Endorse his request for a FF Foveon mirrorless; preferably compatible w/ FE glass.
“It is a mistake to focus… education on job-specific skills that a changing world will render redundant” John Kay:: ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0…
What trinity? Govts insist on their own fiscal poison so the fix is always on either exch. rates or capital controls:twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/…
Still, merch. trade only. Poor BOP data give us an inadequate sense of what is happening in services esp. Mode 3::twitter.com/SimonEvenett/s…
Neither making a list nor even checking it twice will help. To govern is to do or not do, test both, revise, repeat::catallaxyfiles.com/2015/08/25/adv…
@CoppetainPU Ta! Bought before the market opened (hate to see a good panic go to waste). Nice bounce before it closed. Up on the day: joy 😀
Hmm…there’s a big sale on! Some nice bargains. Bought a few bio-med and quite a bit of LNG(!) before Chinese investors snap them up.
SincDavidson Forcing GST on imports doesn’t stack up abc.net.au/news/2015-08-2… via @ABCthedrum
DavidKleimann ‘Textile investments flow into Vietnam ahead of TPP’ just-style.com/analysis/texti…
SincDavidson “competitive neutrality” excuse for GST tax grab. @JoeHockey engaged in protectionism. #whynotaxcutsjoe
Mode 4 in CHAFTA is not the only way to import CHN workers. Labor opposition overblown, ineffective, shortsighted::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9…
Sort of scary “Researchers tested CRISPR-based implementations of the (“gene
-drive”) idea in yeast and fruit flies”::econ.st/1E7m3fm
Isabella Kaminska rips into the history of the PRC and the “impossible trinity” in familiar bloody-minded fashion ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/14/213…
WorldTradeLaw Why free trade agreements don’t really deliver free trade - Fortune bit.ly/1gF44Cg
The @jgarnaut article is less shocking and more interesting than this suggests::twitter.com/jgarnaut/statu…
Clever, guess we’re down to fix-ups now? RT @DPearson_mn: How to maximize agricultural trade expansion in #TPP? […] bit.ly/1IKZITR
“Food sector foreign investment curbs stink of protectionism”, David Uren::theaustralian.com.au/business/opini…
SimonEvenett Is China engaging in a competitive devaluation? I pour cold water on this argument in my take on Beijing’s move, see mydigitalfc.com/op-ed/why-did-…
Why not “balanced” support for theories of perpetual motion or witch-burning? Or macro-economic modelling (oh wait…)
“Moderate” support for costly ineffective measures that no robust evidence supports is “pollism” not good governance::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/coalit…
TheEIU_China Renminbi’s decline today still looks modest vs scale of its climb against other currencies in 2014-15. #China #RMB pic.twitter.com/Mtx6MIJ0Pa
Chill! That much-tweeted arctic sea-ice map tells (only the northern) half of the story. Recent warming is gentle. pic.twitter.com/f5yC5vdBQr
insteconomics Foreign investment: FIRB scaring away capital, warns CPC theaustralian.com.au/business/forei…
“Canada is, in fact, at the centre of both major obstacles to a TPP deal” No surprise,alas::theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/…
That last tweet quoted Andrew Robb, AU trade minister. Apologies for the creative spelling.
A. Dobb “I keep saying to the Americans it is a deal to reduce protection, not increase it or maintain it.”::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
J Garnaut is probably right about the #TPP timing problem. This looks like failure for Obama’s agenda. A stuff up::smh.com.au/world/in-tpp-t…