Mike Huckabee’s victory in Iowa Thursday was a big victory also for the “Fair Tax,” the radical revamping of the federal tax code that he endorses. And while Huckabee’s Iowa win may be a one-off, one gets the feeling that the Fair Tax campaign will be with us for a while. The resurgent John McCain [...]

I have a new column in the issue of Time with Benazir Bhutto on the cover and online here. It begins: They’re turning 62 this month, the first of the baby boomers are. Adorable, aren’t they, as they hum along to the Beach Boys on their iPods and dream of Davy Crockett coonskin caps? In [...]

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 [...]

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., [...]

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 [...]

The NYT ran an article last week on young workers leaving Denmark to escape high taxes. The main example given was that of Thomas Sorensen, a software engineer who now lives in Frankfurt. The photo caption claimed that he works in Germany “to avoid the 63 percent top tax rate in his homeland.” When you [...]