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Workingman’s Blues

Turn the dial on the Wayback Machine to September 5, 1882. Most Americans work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, often in physically...

Hemingway's Suitcase

In 1922, Ernest Hemingway was working as a reporter and living in bohemian poverty in Paris with his first wife, Hadley. The newlyweds...

I'm Not Messi-ing Around

Sports fans love when new stars join their teams. Sometimes it’s a promising rookie called up to the majors, like Elly de la Cruz...

Holiday Road

Forty years ago this week — July 29, to be precise — Clark Griswold loaded his wife Ellen and children Rusty and Audrey into their...

My Deduction Was Thiiiiiiiis Big

Today’s millennials and Generation Z have hit some speed bumps on their path toward financial independence—the Dotcom crash of 1999, the...

Unintended Consequences

This week, we celebrate the 247th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence — a milestone of human imagination and courage....

AI Fails to Predict... The Future?

If you had “Russian uprising” and “Titanic-related disaster” on your 2023 bingo card, congratulations! You’re either a time traveler from...

Tax Whack-a-Mole

Our beloved internal revenue code currently runs 4,968 pages. That’s a lot of fingers and toes! But you can reduce the whole exercise to...

Flying Friendlier Skies

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin published an essay called “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” where he wrote, “Remember that time is money.” Back...

Check Your Speed

Here in the United States, tax policy rests on the notion that tax rates should rise with income, so those who earn more pay a greater...

Pigs get fat; Hogs get slaughtered

JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) acquired (i.e. saved / bailed out) First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) from bankruptcy. When the banks lend money out,...

Halo

Summer is coming, and for music fans across America that means stadium tours. Taylor Swift fans went through several bear attacks to get...

The Art of Tax

April 15 is almost here, and panicky taxpayers across America are begging their tax pros for any help they can get for bills they aren’t...

$1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

We've talked here a time or two about how taxes factor into every financial choice you make. Whether you're selling a business,...

Words from the Wise

If you've spent any time online lately, you're familiar with so-called "listicles" — those irresistible lists of trivial facts that pass...

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