ozprodcom If anti-dumping principles applied domestically, Aus exporters couldn’t take up Austrade’s advice & discount to gain new export markets.
The MetaFilter gopher server is back. If you need to ask ‘why’? I guess you weren’t there in pre-Mosaic times. metatalk.metafilter.com/24019/Direct-y…
Ponderous legal battles are a safeguard, not a solution, for problems with anti-competitive patents::marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Twice in a year US Fed’l Court has reversed Apple’s design/software patent awards. Win for innovation, competition::arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Trade? Poor: ICC “G20 Score Card” tracks G20 performance on i’nat’l business issues:iccwbo.org/global-influen… pic.twitter.com/u8EuNF7Rzo
More solemn blather from the G-20: a Group that has’t had a workable idea (or kept its own promises) since 2009::ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3…
An unimaginative title (sub-editor) but intriguing, slightly speculative, analysis of Trumpery from @HenryErgas theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
IMF tosh! How about that “bold plan” for 2% growth targets (no result)? Ex-EURO, few grounds for collaborative macro:twitter.com/sdonnan/status…
Trump triumphs in Las Vegas. One of the Great Lizards that Hunter Thompson saw, gutting the American Dream? Or is he a Thompsonian dreamer?
Oh no! AU “doesn’t get” the risk of more jobs, exports, capital Investments, productivity & profits on land sales!::twitter.com/JamieSmythF/st…
Fascinating paper on secular fall in real int. rates. Still, how crude, partial are macro explanations, indicators::bankofengland.co.uk/research/Docum…
Obama says there must be compromise. So “Partly conceived in Liberty”? “Somewhat dedicated” to that proposition?::nytimes.com/2016/02/20/us/…?
SamKSS Hardly surprising but still very depressing headline on front page of today’s AFR. pic.twitter.com/7D8SGxIFsr
“The outcomes cannot be known with certainty. The rules are objective and concrete.” Better fragile rules, if so. twitter.com/dikenson/statu…
@dikenson …and they’ll probably grow up to be Canadians!
@kjhealy has made an affiliation graph of 1k-author Gravitational Waves paper (more AU authors than I expected)::kieranhealy.org/files/misc/per…
@timwilsoncomau forget talk of political ‘struggle’, we want responsible econ. management, end to wasteful spending & knee-jerk regulation!
Vale Antonin Scalia: a true voice of liberalism in the Common Law tradition & a powerful writer::nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/…
What a dreadful world that wretched deal 70 years ago! “We must not alter Yalta, Or Joe will make a fuss…” twitter.com/HistoryTime_/s…
Wonderful title! Captures the imperious insanity of GIs.
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…Seems not. Target prices & “deficiency payments” to replace stocks. Like that’ll work! (ictsd.org/bridges-news/b…) twitter.com/pwgallagher/st…
Ban on discrimination (Art. II modified by e.g. XXIV) seems to bar CMs in WTO except where distribution of prod’n is highly skewed (TISA?).
Seems to miss the point. Challenge for CM (‘club’) agreements in WTO not non-MFN obligations but non-MFN benefits. twitter.com/BaldwinRE/stat…
davidcollinslaw No apparent pro-investor bias in ISDS … twitter.com/unctadwif/stat…
This smells! ABS proposes to retain identifying Census data to track individuals for unspecified “policy” purposes::abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D33…