Predictions for 2019? The USA will win its WTO case (the one Martin Feldstein apparently missed) against CHN on for… https://t.co/oY2MSATVea
Predictions for 2019? I confide that Trump/Lighthizer will confect an agreement with CHN before 2020. My *predictio… https://t.co/jYxhMiRz1C
Tremendous trifles::https://t.co/A3m6zeiOac
RT @ProfPaulPoast: Leaders do matter, but I actually think Trump shows the limits of leaders as a unit of analysis: Trump matters because h…
RT @dfat: Entry into force of the #CPTPP on 30 December will boost export and investment opportunities for #Ausbiz. Find out how your busin…
RT @PaulBlustein: Agree that the latest from @greg_ip is insightful (isn’t he always?), esp on China. But hasn’t profound damage been infli…
RT @alan_john_moran: A long forgotten truth https://t.co/zHoeXds1HF
Botched implementation but the right decision on Syria (what were US troops doing, any way?)::https://t.co/95t2zRaWrX
RT @stewartbrand: Formidable graphic history of the human world. Just 20 minutes, but really longer because you’ll keep hitting pause: “W…
Wow! A tree-house library courtesy of Dr Seuss? Wonderful!
RT @GarettJones: UCSD’s Geisel Library:
Fantastic, I l… https://t.co/zF7Nfkx7wy
Courts protect junk forensic science (e.g. bite-mark identification) that smears the innocent (… https://t.co/iCYHvy2Ebq
@snlester Sure. I assume they’ll take your second choice: ‘litigate†(i.e. a panel). But that’s still a much better… https://t.co/js26aENcjX
RT @KennedyCSIS: Shortest shelf-life of anything I’ve ever written (or in a positive light, the quickest answer to a proposal): 1 day. On M…
@snlester argues an EU request for WTO examination of alleged CHN violations of undertakings & obligations on IP pr… https://t.co/HDrJV9TEzf
RT @PaulBlustein: No doubt I’ll be slanged as a “China apologist†for having said this, but here goes: Unless and until better evidence com…
Actually NO information here about ‘allied condemnation’ just a roundup of the usual (unverified) claims from US so… https://t.co/5bgJxUitF1
RT @snlester: Persuasive Value vs. Precedent in Appellate Body Reasoning
https://t.co/rRIJjA4pG7
RT @GeorgeMRiddell: 11/ Even accepting that the UK has a huge workload ahead of it on trade negotiations, forging a new trade relationship…
RT @snlester: US view that AB rulings should be “persuasive” but not “precedential” relies on a distinction so subtle that I can’t figure o…
RT @bbaschuk: @wto China moved a step closer towards a formal WTO inquiry into whether @realDonaldTrump’s $250 billion in tariffs against C…
A genius of 20th C science and art. Great photos e.g. with Hermann Zapf & a Metafont-designed ligature in Computer… https://t.co/5VdimSLBt6
Ugh! “.. its power and responsibility”
Seems that at yesterday’s #WTO Trade Policy Review of USA, CHN’s ambassador began by quoting Stan Lee’s Spiderman:… https://t.co/VVF3xnfQPR
I agree with much of this other than the conclusion. Brussels used the talks as a means to punish/claw-back the Bre… https://t.co/3ndeEEFB78
“…[W]hen unethical research proposals became rare, ambiguous research proposals began to seem unethical.†My experi… https://t.co/92WC4VnB6J
@scottlincicome @alanbeattie Gentlemen, I believe that the world’s greatest salumeria (Simoni, Bologna) serves only… https://t.co/IHrHdUDwo0
“The [social cost of carbon emissions] is a measure, in dollars, of the long-term damage done by a ton of carbon di… https://t.co/hNCbtSjtf8
@aeonmag @skdh So: IF gravitrons really exist (ie. gravity can be described by quantum field theories) AND black ho… https://t.co/vaYTcrnZQ9
Tech firms will reconsider hiring AU nationals following the passage of the foolish, insecure and repressive “Acces… https://t.co/kvO5FVPQnP
RT @srajagopalan: My column today for @livemint @Mint_Opinion on the regulatory mess that is shackling the Indian farmer in poverty. Indian…
“Australians Should Defy Their Government’s Poorly Considered Surveillance Stateâ€. But consumer “defiance†will not… https://t.co/ztww7nodum
@tylercowen on coercion “[I]sn’t there something deeply wrong with a system where you can’t easily leave a multinat… https://t.co/rH8F9HOPx6
RT @EricTopol: Retail used to be the #1 US job source until 1 year ago.
That’s when it was overtaken by #healthcare, which has added yet an…
RT @snlester: Why isn’t USTR enforcing the existing rules on forced technology transfer found in China’s WTO accession protocol?
https://t.…
@business On industrial goods? Great. But this is like an alcoholic swearing to give up chocolate! Avg. CHR rate on… https://t.co/JpVjGly8xk
@chip_roh @snlester Precisely. There seems to be little contestible data available to test White House (USTR) claim… https://t.co/A1pUBmpjWn
Scott Sumner @econlib “How much IP has China stolen? What is the market value? What fraction is stuff that never de… https://t.co/5nh95B8OoI
Suppose a ‘cold-war’ divides USA & CHN techne: esp. digital. What will be the consequences for ROW? Science will st… https://t.co/kD4IX9lz79
Apple’s detailed criticisms of the broad, vague, intrusive, extra-territorial and unreviewable provisions of the AU… https://t.co/c43n0dUT2X
Foolish politicians, without public sanction, are about to turn AU into a ‘survillance state’ by legislating for ba… https://t.co/4nUCvmCcom
RT @insteconomics: Come and hear Dr Alex Robson release his new report for @ussc “It doesn’t have to be this way Australia’s energy crisis,…
Macron tries to ignore the revolt of guys in day-glow jackets (‘gilets jaunes’), ostensibly over fuel tax hikes. “A… https://t.co/JFRHX0G4Nd
Ugh! “Multifactor productivity for the Australian market sector rose 0.5 per cent in 2017-18, which was the lowest… https://t.co/EplZkIJKaM
RT @D_A_Irwin: Tim Josling, a giant in agricultural trade economics, helped develop PSEs to measure ag support in OECD, furthering Uruguay…
Steak with ricotta and dates!? Caramel pancakes!? The menu has more weight than the communique! (@SimonEvenett). St… https://t.co/Dp58HWlqsV
RT @McKinsey_MGI: The introduction of steam engines during the 1800s boosted labor productivity by an estimated 0.3% a year, the impact fro…
@SimonEvenett @insteconomics @WTODGAZEVEDO OK; but G-20 is an IMF-based group, kicked upstairs to HOG level in 2009… https://t.co/PErwrmjs0S
In the 50 years since the 1968 peak in cardiovascular disease mortality in AU the mortality rate for acute disease… https://t.co/4qJZT2XnCb