Musk says we must be an ‘interplanetary species’. How is that different fm being an intercity species (except it’s even harder to breathe)?
@dikenson Your data shows courts decide fairly. OK. Still, AD/CVD b.s. is fostered by litigators whose domain is th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…34
@dikenson on Bombadier & NAFTA Ch 19. Still, the “trade bar” is what it says. Litigation is never about mutual gain:forbes.com/sites/danikens…
Yes (Of course, there are high stakes. The future is a “serious matter”, no doubt. Still: improbable, hillarious)::nytimes.com/2017/09/26/opi…?
Supply shortages in energy-rich AU are due entirely to foolish regulation. Turnbull threatens to deepen the mire::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
JohnHCochrane The Grumpy Economist: Health Care Policy Isn’t so Hard johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/09/health…
I’ve been teaching graduate course in trade at Uni Adelaide for a decade. 70% CHN, Asn.,Afr students. Many struggle..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nK
nyrbclassics On the “economy of form and brevity of wit” of E.O. Plauen’s Father & Son bit.ly/2wcpDqi “A Cartoonist in..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xF
If this is a “great win” then so were Stalin’s/Mao’s 5-year Plans. They, too, imposed government bullying on top of..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…BX
Parking-lot strategies: 4. Travel to a distant galaxy often compensated by low local search costs + easy access to worm-holes (elevators).
Parking-lot strategies: 3. Estimate churn in preferred locations. But… uncertainty in single sample; “prop & wait” externalities are high.
Parking-lot strategies: 2. Give optimism first shot: why not the best spot? Payoffs of a (bounded) contrarian gambit include smugness.
Parking-lot strategies: 1. Theorem: a useful (limited) metaphor of parking-lots is the Galton Board. Trick is to find upper/lower tails.