@eurohumph Robert! How did I miss you on Twitter? “Ignorance… pure ignorance.” Now amended. Best.
Merkel lectures Trump about “overarching responsibility for the world” but insists on huge BOP surpluses that penalize DEU trading partners?
Still, the US govt has done its very best to hurt US sugar consumers for decades. twitter.com/snlester/statu…
EU vs Google “Protecting competitors not competition, flawed price comparison, no more effect than Microsoft case,..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Xg
… and an important omission (that looks like deception). twitter.com/davidcollinsla…
taniavoon Endorsements of my forthcoming #IEL @Elgar_Law book w @AndrewDMitch @lizsheargold: Thanks @tomerbroude & David Gantz e-elgar.com/shop/regulator…
Me too. Still, some structural changes (technology) in merch trade seem to be changing trade intensity of growth::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Ns
None better qualified to assess the destruction AU govts wreck on national energy, telecomms markets by demand, sup..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Ar
“[M]ain insight from our analysis… regulation of professionals is in the interests of professionals not consumers”:papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
USTR Lighthizer could get CHN to behave like a more credible (WTO) “market economy”. But he needs more than bluster..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Pc
New York, 1911 (9min film). Remarkable how familiar it seems. Summer: umbrellas and boaters. Great lens::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Yt
“Turnbull Channels Trump” (Bloomberg). Perhaps a bit hard on Trump? Has he stopped key export sales?::bloomberg.com/politics/artic…
Bad time for LNG : “Australia is about to overtake Qatar as the world’s largest exporter…” (WaPo)::washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
Turnbull’s claims about a “social license” for energy coys and exports “short changing” Australia is mad, alarming::ft.com/content/6411b3…
Turnbull’s cack-handed regulation of gas sales will slow the investment AU needs to secure future gas supplies::mckinsey.com/~/media/McKins…
AU sold $17bn of LNG last year to CHN, KOR, JPN… Turnbull’s export ban will cut investment, forward sales. For what gain? He’s not sure!
Turnbull’s partial LNG export ban a foolish attempt to manage price/supply, validating State govt energy wreckery::abc.net.au/news/2017-06-2…
The most valuable 20th C technology? MNE assets, employees, mangement know-how make a lot of places great (again)::aei.org/publication/as…
Anyway… lovely flowers!::pic.twitter.com/JNsCZOtDxo
realDonaldTrump It was my great honor to welcome President @JC_Varela & Mrs. Varela from Panama this afternoon.🇺🇸🇵🇦
➡️..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Yb
Recommended: Dianne Coyle on household digital production & the “measured, not-measured” boundary in GDP accounts::escoe.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
Is “interNATIONAL” trade a misleading construct? Trade is a private activity (firms); still, people *want* borders::fee.org/articles/no-su…
“Macron’s party seems set to gain 70% of the seats off a first-round base of 16 per cent of the electorate…” theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/…KNgu
The non-intuitive weight of transport costs. Also why trade facilitation (pre & post barrier costs) are important::krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/a-f…
What would be the future of the AU economy if 20% of all new jobs were created in the “disability care” industry?::pc.gov.au/inquiries/curr…
CHN’s impact on US mfg prices after it joined WTO mostly due to cuts in own tariffs on intermediate goods imports::nber.org/papers/w23487
Three reasons the AU public debt position is worse and worsening faster than the budget’s headline numbers suggest. twitter.com/SincDavidson/s…
WorldTradeLaw Is the US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement a First Salvo against the Special and Differential Treatment? dlvr.it/PKS12q
ATabarrok Iranian media blaming Saudi Arabia for IS attacks in Tehran. Very dangerous sit. Did Trump embolden Saudi Arabia? nytimes.com/2017/06/07/wor…
What condolences should Turnbull, Trump now offer to Iran on ISIS murders? Does their consolation express sympathy or only alliance?
Stories you find on Flickr..pic.twitter.com/PcmrysQyuFuF
… and then the Paris accord suffered, among other defects, from GATT’s debilitiating disease (Hudec): corrupting preference.
Can’t see Trump dumping WTO. It’s useful while he wants to stay cosy-ish with Xi: to manage problems he doesn’t nee..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…wV
@insteconomics Sure… But you know, legal analysis is like that.
Estimated $2.1 trillion recurrent US annual gains fm trade. Possibly: it’s another “assume this number” PIIE paper::piie.com/system/files/d…
“Both [Google & Apple] maps… label a similar number of places—but have only 10% of their places in common”::.twitter.com/i/web/status/8…dig