• RT @normative How Trade Policy Cost The X-Men Their Humanity http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/29/are_mutants_human.html
• No Surprises and No Momentum out of WTO Meeting — Kimberly Elliott |http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/no-surprises-and-no-momentum-out-of-wto-meeting.php via @CGDev
• Norway slashes its $4.28 per kilo specific tariff in effort to alleviate massive butter shortage http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1220/1224309294257.html

You can follow @TradeDiversion on Twitter or see the tweets in the column on the right of the blog’s frontpage, www.tradediversion.net.

On the whole, it seems that there’s been more exit than entry in the trade blogosphere over the last six years. Yes, Twitter emerged as a way to get trade policy news directly from trade reporters, but my reading list is shorter than it used to be. Have I missed new entrants? Whose blog should I be reading that isn’t already on my blogroll in the right sidebar? Please submit your recommendations in the comments section!

In the meantime, you might enjoy:

Dan Drezner & others discussing global governance at Cato Unbound.

A Business Week story on measuring productivity gains in the presence of offshoring: “But new evidence suggests that shifting production overseas has inflicted worse damage on the U.S. economy than the numbers show. BusinessWeek has learned of a gaping flaw in the way statistics treat offshoring, with serious economic and political implications. Top government statisticians now acknowledge that the problem exists, and say it could prove to be significant.” [HT: Thoma]

VoxEU, a new portal from the CEPR featuring numerous top economists, including recent columns by Paul Collier & Tony Venables, Andrew K. Rose, Simon Evenett, and others.