Intellectual property and marketing: Bacardi and Pernod Ricard are fighting over the “Havana Club” brand name.
Housing: Housing bubble and coming crash as explained by Washington Monthly. Brad DeLong isn’t sure– he says that it is, in many ways, a matter of guessing the future movements of the real interest rate.
Criminal Law, Semiotics, Justice, Privacy: Home-made birthday cards sent from one prisoner to another are often clues about the social networks among prisoners, and are used to investigate gang violence.
Secretly Ironic 