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"Auditing the IRS" is a conversation series featuring IRS watchdog Bruce Willey and tax experts, legislators, former IRS officials and other experts focused on the struggles and future of ...

Since it ignores why we have deficits and debt in the first place, a balanced budget rule would vastly expand the size of the federal government. To understand why, we need only contemplate the excell ...

You've probably heard the warnings: Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, chips, and power infrastructure in a frenzied race that looks suspiciously like past bubbles. M ...

"Grit" is so overrated. It implies that economic growth is an effect of doing what we must to get by. What an awful existence, what an untrue presumption. If there are doubters, they need ...

The most ironic news out of this week's Milken conference didn't come from a hedge fund manager or an investment bank. It came from the SEC. On May 4, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los ...

Blue states' new wealth tax proposals aren't really taxes at all; they're rent-seeking behavior. These proposals are nothing more than an attempt to increase the states'

After years of uncertainty and repricing, the hospitality real estate market is finally showing signs of positive movement. Buyers and sellers are converging on valuations. Deals that were off the tab ...

The recent controversy surrounding Replimune Group's melanoma therapy has quickly become a proxy battle over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration itself. In the face of complex and so ...

When children bury aged parents, that is to be expected. It is to be regretted of course, but it is part of nature's plan. When such matters occur the other way around, however, it is horrid. Wh ...

"The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world, before passing it on to us." That was John F. Carter, in the Atlantic Monthly. It was September 1920, and Carter was chan ...