taxation

Americans have come to believe that the IRS and the income tax are inevitable parts of our lives. After all, most everyone alive today …

The highest form of charity, argued the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides, is when the help given enables the receiver to become self-sufficient. But our …

A contributing factor in the rise of Internet commerce, a feature that gave it a kick-start, was that you didn’t have to pay sales …

To be sure, this was a mind-bending experience. I watched Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln on the same weekend that I read Joseph Fallon’s Lincoln …

“Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next.” This is The …

FRANKLIN Delano Roosevelt famously used the term “forgotten man” in a 1932 speech to describe those at the bottom of the economic pyramid whom, …

In large parts of the oldest civilized region of the world, you will find in nearly every room a pretty blue charm that looks …