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My Deduction Was Thiiiiiiiis Big

Today’s millennials and Generation Z have hit some speed bumps on their path toward financial independence—the dotcom crash of 1999, the... Read More

Planning Lessons from William Faulkner

Why did the rocket scientists who designed the space shuttle choose to make its solid rocket boosters smaller than they really wanted?... Read More

Unintended Consequences

This week, we celebrate the 247th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence—a milestone of human imagination and courage. The... Read More

AI Fails to Predict…The Future?

If you had “Russian uprising” and “Titanic-related disaster” on your 2023 bingo card, congratulations! You’re either a time... Read More

Tax Whack-a-Mole

Our beloved internal revenue code currently runs 4,968 pages. That’s a lot of fingers and toes! But you can reduce the whole exercise to... Read More

The More Things Change

Dealing with bureaucracy is rarely easy and never fun. Back in the 1980s, future NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone earned the nickname “the... Read More

What’s Tax Got to Do with It?

Tina Turner’s death last month at age 83 leaves an enormous hole in the soul of rock and roll. Turner cut her first record in 1958 on her... Read More

Flying Friendlier Skies

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin published an essay called “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” where he wrote, “Remember that time is money.”... Read More

Action!

When you think of a labor strike, you probably picture a line of blue-collar workers carrying picket signs in front of a coal mine or... Read More

Check Your Speed

Here in these United States, tax policy rests on the notion that tax rates should rise with income, so those who earn more pay a greater... Read More