The truth about the Trump ‘trade deals’
While the President can make good on his promise to hike tariffs, he cannot make other countries shoulder the tax bill
Tax
Friday
Wednesday
Will better-than-expected inflation numbers calm the markets?
The consumer price index rose 0.1 percent less than markets had expected
Tuesday
The trouble with the progressives’ proposed wealth tax
The Roman Empire suffered its own version of America’s current out-of-control spending
Tuesday
Youngkin responds to ‘vote-buying’ accusations from Democrats
‘They literally delayed the signing of a budget,’ the governor said of the tax rebate checks
Wednesday
Hunter’s plea deal confusion in Delaware
The president’s son is set to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors to avoid a gun charge
Thursday
IRS whistleblowers allege special treatment for Hunter Biden
At one point in the hearing, Marjorie Taylor Greene produced stills of the president’s son engaged in lewd acts with a sex worker
Wednesday
Hunter Biden is protected from on high
He has become the family’s designated defendant
Friday
AOC’s ethical fashion disaster
The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating her controversial 2021 Met Gala appearance
Saturday
The IRS is coming for your fantasy football winnings
Unless House Republicans can stop them
Tuesday
Unpicking the armed IRS agent hysteria
The agency has had special agents for decades
Thursday
What Florida gets right
The state has a very lean government — that’s no accident
Tuesday
How crony capitalism makes tax season hell
Filing taxes is far easier in other countries, and companies like H&R Block are to blame
Tuesday
The trouble with unrealized capital gains taxes
Ron Wyden’s wealth tax is as flawed as it is flatly unconstitutional
Tuesday
Who’s targeted by the $600 IRS reporting requirement?
It’s not just very high-income individuals
Tuesday
Will the Pandora Papers change anything?
As taxation has gotten higher and more complex, the incentive to find ways to avoid taxes has grown stronger
Thursday
Won’t someone please think of the billionaires?
Cockburn and Warren Buffett exist in two very remote financial universes
Monday
Why should Amazon be exempt from Biden’s global tax?
This ‘breakthrough’ is not all it is cracked up to be
Friday
The trouble with capital gains tax
A higher capital gains tax rate has, inevitably, adverse economic effects
Tuesday
Stop the global tax!
The Biden administration’s ‘multilateralism’ could make ‘America First’ look positively magnanimous
Wednesday
The Barrett hearings show the Democrats have wised up since Kavanaugh
Gone is any focus on Barrett’s personal life. Discussion of her fervent religious beliefs are verboten
