Does the RIAA really want to sue you for copying songs onto your iPod?

Marc Fisher’s article in the Sunday Washington Post about the latest development in the Recording Industry Association of America’s campaign to sue every last person in America has taken on an interesting life of its own. Wrote Fisher: Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back [...]

Is it time to run screaming from the Indian stock market?

Here, from an e-mail I just got from the folks at Russell Investments, are the world’s 10 top-performing stocks of 2007: Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Co. Ltd., China, 1017% Jai Corp. Ltd., India, 877% Reliance Natural Resources Ltd., India, 823% Ispat Industries Ltd., India, 742% Jindal Steel & Power Ltd., India, 664% Essar Oil Ltd., [...]

Hoisted from the comments: A Danish wonk says taxes do matter

In response to my post on whether high taxes really explain Denmark’s brain drain, Jacob Braestrup, adviser on tax policy to the Confederation of Danish Industries, had this to say: I’m sorry, but I fail to see your point. As you yourself point out, “Taxes are the only one of those top four factors that [...]