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RT @joshuakeating: Jim Steinberg wants to see more US focus on Mexico. "We need Mexico to succeed. It's important as China succeeding." #fptrends
But yeah, I agree, all the nastiness is irrelevant because, you know, the internet.
Let's remember what we're talking about here. Headlines like "Maddie sold by hard up McCanns" about parents of a kidnapped child.
Whatever happens after Leveson, I expect the rate at which the media ruins lives to increase not decline over the next decade.
RT @tianran: Journalists see real-terms cut in incomes since 2002 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012... >> the falling wages of a dying industry?
Would it really have been unthinkable to publish Leveson, wait a couple of weeks while people read it, and then have the debate on it?
Instead of minimum pricing, tax alcoholic content (& stop sales at a loss) http://www.ifs.org.uk/publica... (via @dlknowles @BenCooper86 @TheIFS)
"After careful research... I came to the annoying conclusion that Keynes had been 100 percent right in the 1930s." http://www.theamericanconserva...
RT @thomaswright08: Agree w/ Friedman that world is divided into 2 groups. But it's betw those who think it is divided into 2 groups & those who know it isn't
Thanks to @RichardJMurphy for explaining why the Telegraph's tax 'millionaires' story is indeed bollocks http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog...
Confiscation of mobile phone, punishment for using the Internet. Wouldn't make me thrilled about jury duty. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law...
The first para of this anti-Leveson screed by Fraser Nelson is impressively illiterate http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-...
RT @CourtNewsUK: Richard O'Dwyer, 24, has just agreed to go to the US voluntarily and negotiate paying compensation instead of facing criminal charges.
Minimum pricing for alcohol seems bonkers to me. Why not replace current duty with tax tied to alcoholic content?
I'd bet good money that Telegraph's claim "Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate" is bollocks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
Important article (p8-10) by @JustinSandefur on why statistical agencies should be independent just like central banks http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/output...
RT @SimonMagus: What #leveson has to say about on-line - including blogs & social media - is far more important long-term than newspaper regulation
RT @mfullilove: RT @markmackinnon: The Telegraph commits grave disservice by printing secret list of secret Canadians: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... @Gordocharlton
RT @andypsumner: @andypsumner @davidsteven sorry that should be non-linear moments of econ dev not stages...
RT @andypsumner: @davidsteven better to say 90 per cent of poor in 20 populous countries at various stages of econ dev
"Poverty eradication becomes largely a domestic issue rather than an international one." Again, only true for some 'middle income' countries
"Most of the world’s poor live in countries with the capacity & wealth to tackle extreme poverty." True of China. Maybe India. But Pakistan?
This piece by @ianbirrell shows what the poverty/middle income meme gets up to when unleashed into the wild: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazin...
And that for the first group aid, peacekeeping etc will be no less important than it's been over the past generation.
I'd also argue that, if we see continued global growth, the poor will be increasingly in group 1, and an expanded group 3 (as 2's graduate).
But there are lots of ingredients that could be added to a typology - e.g. natural resource endowment.
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