Predictions for 2019? The USA will win its WTO case (the one Martin Feldstein apparently missed) against CHN on for..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ea
Predictions for 2019? I confide that Trump/Lighthizer will confect an agreement with CHN before 2020. My *predictio..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1C
Tremendous trifles::nytimes.com/2018/12/28/rea…
ProfPaulPoast Leaders do matter, but I actually think Trump shows the limits of leaders as a unit of analysis: Trump matters beca..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…eo
dfat Entry into force of the #CPTPP on 30 December will boost export and investment opportunities for #Ausbiz. Find out..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2D
PaulBlustein Agree that the latest from @greg_ip is insightful (isn’t he always?), esp on China. But hasn’t profound damage been..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SY
alan_john_moran A long forgotten truth twitter.com/bankableinsigh…
Botched implementation but the right decision on Syria (what were US troops doing, any way?)::theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
stewartbrand Formidable graphic history of the human world. Just 20 minutes, but really longer because you’ll keep hitting paus..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6y
Wow! A tree-house library courtesy of Dr Seuss? Wonderful!
RT @GarettJones: UCSD’s Geisel Library:
Fantastic, I l..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wy
Courts protect junk forensic science (e.g. bite-mark identification) that smears the innocent (..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…bq
@snlester Sure. I assume they’ll take your second choice: ‘litigate” (i.e. a panel). But that’s still a much better..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jX
KennedyCSIS Shortest shelf-life of anything I’ve ever written (or in a positive light, the quickest answer to a proposal): 1 da..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gm
@snlester argues an EU request for WTO examination of alleged CHN violations of undertakings & obligations on IP pr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…zf
PaulBlustein No doubt I’ll be slanged as a “China apologist” for having said this, but here goes: Unless and until better eviden..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9e
Actually NO information here about ‘allied condemnation’ just a roundup of the usual (unverified) claims from US so..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…F1
snlester Persuasive Value vs. Precedent in Appellate Body Reasoning
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GeorgeMRiddell 11/ Even accepting that the UK has a huge workload ahead of it on trade negotiations, forging a new trade relations..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ZU
snlester US view that AB rulings should be “persuasive” but not “precedential” relies on a distinction so subtle that I can’..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jX
bbaschuk @wto China moved a step closer towards a formal WTO inquiry into whether @realDonaldTrump’s $250 billion in tariffs..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…GA
A genius of 20th C science and art. Great photos e.g. with Hermann Zapf & a Metafont-designed ligature in Computer..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…t6
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:..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…PR
I agree with much of this other than the conclusion. Brussels used the talks as a means to punish/claw-back the Bre..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…78
“…[W]hen unethical research proposals became rare, ambiguous research proposals began to seem unethical.” My experitwitter.com/i/web/status/1…nB6J
@scottlincicome @alanbeattie Gentlemen, I believe that the world’s greatest salumeria (Simoni, Bologna) serves only..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…o0
“The [social cost of carbon emissions] is a measure, in dollars, of the long-term damage done by a ton of carbon di..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…f8
@aeonmag @skdh So: IF gravitrons really exist (ie. gravity can be described by quantum field theories) AND black ho..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Q9
Tech firms will reconsider hiring AU nationals following the passage of the foolish, insecure and repressive “Acces..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nP
srajagopalan My column today for @livemint @Mint_Opinion on the regulatory mess that is shackling the Indian farmer in poverty…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…df
“Australians Should Defy Their Government’s Poorly Considered Surveillance State”. But consumer “defiance” will not..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…um
@tylercowen on coercion “[I]sn’t there something deeply wrong with a system where you can’t easily leave a multinat..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…x6
EricTopol Retail used to be the #1 US job source until 1 year ago.
That’s when it was overtaken by #healthcare, which has add..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8c
snlester Why isn’t USTR enforcing the existing rules on forced technology transfer found in China’s WTO accession protocol?
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@business On industrial goods? Great. But this is like an alcoholic swearing to give up chocolate! Avg. CHR rate on..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xk
@chip_roh @snlester Precisely. There seems to be little contestible data available to test White House (USTR) claim..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Wn
Scott Sumner @Econlib “How much IP has China stolen? What is the market value? What fraction is stuff that never de..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…oI
Suppose a ‘cold-war’ divides USA & CHN techne: esp. digital. What will be the consequences for ROW? Science will st..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…79
Apple’s detailed criticisms of the broad, vague, intrusive, extra-territorial and unreviewable provisions of the AU..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2X
Foolish politicians, without public sanction, are about to turn AU into a ‘survillance state’ by legislating for ba..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…om
insteconomics Come and hear Dr Alex Robson release his new report for @USSC “It doesn’t have to be this way Australia’s energy cr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…em
Macron tries to ignore the revolt of guys in day-glow jackets (‘gilets jaunes’), ostensibly over fuel tax hikes. “A..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Nd
Ugh! “Multifactor productivity for the Australian market sector rose 0.5 per cent in 2017-18, which was the lowest..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…aM
D_A_Irwin Tim Josling, a giant in agricultural trade economics, helped develop PSEs to measure ag support in OECD, furthering..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…32
Steak with ricotta and dates!? Caramel pancakes!? The menu has more weight than the communique! (@SimonEvenett). St..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…sV
McKinsey_MGI The introduction of steam engines during the 1800s boosted labor productivity by an estimated 0.3% a year, the impa..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…su
@SimonEvenett @insteconomics @WTODGAZEVEDO OK; but G-20 is an IMF-based group, kicked upstairs to HOG level in 2009..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…0S
In the 50 years since the 1968 peak in cardiovascular disease mortality in AU the mortality rate for acute disease..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Cb