Marc Brodeur

Apple as a Target

The music companies basically brought this on themselves by insisting that DRM be on all the songs. Apple took advantage of that to restrict their use to only Apple products. Apple is smarter than they are.

Separation of Stocks and State

Additionally, two metrics you may also want to look at are income inequality and GDP growth.

Income inequality has been shown to increase during republican presidents, and decrease during democrats.

www.nytimes.com/2008/0...
freakonomics.blogs.nyt.../

Further, GDP has increase much more for democrats, but this may be a reflection of the analysis you just made.