Anti-dumping is protectionist bullying invented in the USA in 1921 as an anti-trust weapon aimed only at foreigners..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2V
The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything — still, not simpler than necessary m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9lg…E). Also, the U.twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2XD
“The Tower needs to be grounded in ethics—and so, too, does the Square. Admittedly, that is obvious. But today, as.twitter.com/i/web/status/9…V1C
sdonnan The one new thing I heard on trade in Trump’s speech was his openness to negotiating with #TPP members “as a group”..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…IA
Break out some more dilithium crystals! twitter.com/snlester/statu…
TradeNewsCentre CHART: G20 economies ranked by level of tariff protectionism | #WEF18 #Davos2018 bit.ly/2xwuyhA pic.twitter.com/t5dVOrREcp
jkalbrechtsen Lovely piece by Tom Switzer, new CEO of the CIS, on Paddy McGuinness who died 10 years ago on Australia Day. When o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…44
SimonEvenett Am sharing findings today at @Trade_EU on how foreign trade distortions hold back Extra-EU exports, which have stag..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…gE
Never met Patsy. But I have met and/or watched Bill, Clayton, Carla, Micky, Charlene, Robert and Susan. None of the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…rH
It’s fine to be lukewarm on agreements like #TPP, but I’m sorry to see @Adam_Creighton lukewarming on trade. Jobs “..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…za
The hysteria over Huawei smartphones (from AU agencies, too)::aei.org/publication/th…
CDN is among the 11 who agreed some-TPP-text-or-other in Tokyo last night. Good — probably. But who knows how to as.twitter.com/i/web/status/9…lVd
BaldingsWorld 1. Trump is wrong to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels
2. It is the wrong fight politically domest..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…36
True. Minor difficulty is that they’re expedient for too few. @elonmusk has apparently received a big dollop of exp..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jp
There is a way that safeguards might work even while “injury” metrics continue to deteriorate: if capital & labor u..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…6R
Safeguards provide the wrong incentives for trade “adjustment”, so of course they don’t work. Here’s a nice report..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xJ
NZ now launching satellites. Hooray!:: rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/r…
An exotic tale of trade, money supply and financial recession from the days when silver, not gold, was the numérair..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Wt
WorldTradeLaw What does the US want from China? dlvr.it/QC1mg8
ATabarrok There is no growth in paradise.
@dikenson @sdonnan Dan, your assessment (knowledge?) of where this is headed is no doubt right. ‘Rogue’? Don’t S301..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…gP
This is not a case of “motes and beams”. There are authoritative tests of WTO compliance by the USA and CHN (altho..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…WT
“Given these facts, it seems clear that the United States erred in supporting China’s entry into the WTO…” I, too..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…99
“We should never have let them play”! What wd. have been the impact on USA wealth/growth since 2001 of no MFN (“PNT..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…vg
insteconomics The ‘next trading system’ petergallagher.com.au/index.php/site…
For all the criticism of the WorldBank’s Doing Business Index, individual component rankings are valuable. Why e.g…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…aY
kjhealy RIP @textism. How very sad. TextPattern was a beautiful thing. om.co/2018/01/18/dea…
snlester If this is used to block Chinese investment in the US (more than we already do), it’s going to be very damaging to..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…cR
On model training data, see also: “Is Your Data Really Oil?” (from @joshgans + 2):: hbr.org/2018/01/is-you…
Personalised “AI-based” treatment such as this powerful model for predicting individual glycemic responses to diet..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kk
Starting to hear that great sucking sound? Apple has liquid foreign assets said to be worth about 20% of AU GDP:: apple.com/newsroom/2018/…
davidcollinslaw Really good summary pointing out several issues that are often neglected by commentators… twitter.com/william_bain/s…
“I think Trump is a transition”. Praise for Trump’s foreign policy (there isn’t a ‘doctrine’: it’s just prudence) i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7q
Yes, these… twitter.com/sdonnan/status…
Ricardo’s great idea is the science of optimism: it shows there is always potential, even in sh*tholes. twitter.com/CatoTrade/stat…
@MartinRavallion’s 2012 critique of “mashup indices” of development: among them the Doing Business Index. Recommend..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Hg
SincDavidson Fred Argy: RIP clubtroppo.com.au/2018/01/10/fre…
Graham Robb’s book “The Discovery Of France” describes the deep fragmentation of provincial France up to the mid-20..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…mM
PrudentiaMag Today at #ASSA2018 McCloskey is presenting two conference papers:
On the future of economic history..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Dj
Dopes in banks: “It was a big miss,” said National Australia Bank economist James Glenn, “… trade will struggle t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…d4
AU government allocated $2bn in 2007 to a “Carbon Capture & Storage” program. But Audit Office reports “None of the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Xh
Recall Paul Erdös’ response to Einstein: “God maynot play dice with the universe, but something is certainly going..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…GU
insteconomics There’s no excuse for maintaining tariffs on new cars. theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Recommended. Have used @kjhealy’s Pandoc/LaTex/R-based plain-text suite for a few years (w/ @bbedit not EMACS). Mai..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Mn
“Platitude: an idea that, (a) is admitted to be true by everyone and (b), is not true.” (Mencken). Discuss. twitter.com/historyinmomen…
Competition policy is a pillar of the EU single market; something the #NextTradingSystem should emulate. politico.eu/article/margre…
@koenberden @koenberden I believe what I said is entirely true :-) Your objection is that it is irrelevant. You mig..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…YH
Guess it’s curtains, then, for the Swiss banana industry. Still, Swiss tariffs (they’re ALL specific rates) on e.g…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…5d