it’s kind of incredible that, in the information age, we can still guard information so jealously. I’m looking for some financial data, and a 17-page report on Paraguay that has the necessary index would cost me $500. Really…this thing is in PDF form. College drop-outs have created networks swapping unfathomable amounts of music, video, software data, and so on, all for free. But can a brother get a Sovereign Risk Indicator? Absolutely not.
Although I guess on some level it’s better this way. The only reason people do these studies at all is to sell them. If they can’t bank profit, they won’t do the studies. But can we at least do some price discrimination? Jeez louise.
