Taxes

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...

Europe is in turmoil.  Unemployment is up; wages are down.  Industrial production is stagnating.  Most importantly, European people are demonstrating on the streets and on the internet in outrage over...

European austerity policies -- cutting minimum government jobs and services, reducing pension payments and minimum wages, transferring the tax burden from the rich to the middle and poor -- have...

This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become.  Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats.  Politicians are...

In Greece the unemployment rate is 20%.  In Spain it's 23%.  In Portugal and Ireland the unemployment rate is 15%.  Things in Europe are starting to look as bad as...

The recession has been tough on many Americans.  But the recession only started in 2008, and the statisticians at the National Bureau of Economic Research figure it ended in 2009. ...

President Obama has opened an election-year debate on corporate taxation with his proposal to reduce the headline corporate income tax rate from 35% to 28%.  His idea is to give...

Congress is set to extend the 2011 Social Security tax reduction to the end of 2012.  Three cheers for that.  Social Security taxes are some of the most unfair in...