Taxes

Candidates this fall are taking plenty of pokes at the financial industry's best and brightest. But they could be doing a lot more than poke. They could push to start...

Last month Mitt Romney released a somewhat redacted version of his 2011 tax returns. The Romneys reported $13,696,951 in adjusted gross income, not a cent of it earned through work...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been roundly criticized for being a wooden, out-of-touch plutocrat who pays a lower effective tax rate than the vast majority of Americans yet believes...

Pundits pounced earlier this year when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the country will face a "massive fiscal cliff" at the beginning of 2013. It seemed we had...

The United States already sports an exceedingly rich people-friendly tax structure. But America's rich have far more friendly tax models in mind. Like Singapore. Why do the mega rich in...

America's revolutionary generation, new research details, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today. Not too...

Robin Hood would not be happy if he happened upon our incredibly top-heavy modern world. But the new campaign to levy a tax on speculative trading would most likely have...

More than 50 financial industry experts endorsed a letter calling for a tax to rein in Wall Street speculation

As graduation season approaches in America, keynote speakers across the land will be holding forth on how education is the key to the future.  Forget the fact that this year's...