Last para of Intro: (Oops,) it’s actually a nice place. It has problems. It’s doomed (‘cause I can tell the future)::https://t.co/KerZdubsev
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 http://t.co/KZzYe9IZpA
Sharding & replication (from @TimBray). Source of fraud @Google in “Cloud of Lies” (2009, http://t.co/JEhPOVsOGl) https://t.co/co0iMYxKRg
@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:: http://t.co/djlPu56wsw
What trinity? Govts insist on their own fiscal poison so the fix is always on either exch. rates or capital controls:https://t.co/HvLlFguORo
Still, merch. trade only. Poor BOP data give us an inadequate sense of what is happening in services esp. Mode 3::https://t.co/sOmDX7gxZF
Neither making a list nor even checking it twice will help. To govern is to do or not do, test both, revise, repeat::http://t.co/VZoBVP7YtM
@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.
RT @SincDavidson: Forcing GST on imports doesn’t stack up http://t.co/CSrNHfKXHl via @abcthedrum
RT @DavidKleimann: ‘Textile investments flow into Vietnam ahead of TPP’ http://t.co/Psp603xZd3
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::http://t.co/Dapkt6IVoA
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 http://t.co/TfEVT3NKrb
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::http://t.co/3hi7OqNhf6
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::http://t.co/zlcQBDw1Og
RT @SimonEvenett: Is China engaging in a competitive devaluation? I pour cold water on this argument in my take on Beijing’s move, see http…
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::http://t.co/wVTrFdKMkQ
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
RT @insteconomics: Foreign investment: FIRB scaring away capital, warns CPC http://t.co/2MG0EZUbGy
“Canada is, in fact, at the centre of both major obstacles to a TPP deal” No surprise,alas::http://t.co/iixZrWyspW
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.”::http://t.co/1uyxeFwlQH
J Garnaut is probably right about the #TPP timing problem. This looks like failure for Obama’s agenda. A stuff up::http://t.co/MqF8Qomq1k