| Aug 14, 2013 | Economy / BusinessWhile pretty much everybody agrees that the U.S. tax code is a mess, nobody does anything about it. Oh, politicians talk about doing something, but mainly what they do is make it worse. There’s a reason for this. You. You’re the reason. People, alas, tend...
| Jul 31, 2013 | Economy / BusinessFor weeks, we watched Representative Darrell Issa and the conservative media circus concoct a “scandal” surrounding the IRS’s handling of applications by tea party groups for tax-exempt status. The California Republican and his allies then sought to...
| Jul 17, 2013 | Economy / BusinessNot much left Worth fighting for; The rich already Won the war. Many of us who have reached Social Security age had a pretty good run. We lived through those heady days that followed the Great Depression and World War II, a delightful — though brief — moment in U.S....
| Jul 10, 2013 | Economy / BusinessSometimes we need new words to grasp new ideas. Frances O’Grady, Britain’s highest-ranking labor leader, has coined one of these handy new words: predistribution. Why does O’Grady, the general secretary of the UK’s Trades Union Congress, want us talking...
| Jul 3, 2013 | Economy / BusinessIn May, Americans watched as Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his company’s tax avoidance strategies before a Senate investigative panel. Prior to the hearing, Senate investigators released a report documenting Apple’s use of accounting gimmicks to shift $74...
