I must be getting soft hearted but almost agreed with Suze Orman on a few things.  Guess she is ok if you just have to read her stuff.  Watching and listening is pure torture. She had an article on starting your own business and who hasn't sat there and dreamed of owning their own busine ... Read more

As part of his 2000+ page nightmare of a "health care" bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would partially decouple the "Medicare" portion of the healthcare tax from the tax withholding system. For the first time the Medicare tax would be different for taxpayers with different filing statuses ... Read more

Nationwide survey found 12% of people responding plan to buy a home as an investment, twice the share (5.6%) expressing such interest in March. The survey by the online property listing service Move.com said the lure of lower prices and foreclosure bargains were chief reasons for the growing intere ... Read more

Reuters Headline: Nearly 15,000 Americans admit offshore tax cheating They are talking about the response to the recent IRS offshore amnesty. No doubt there were plenty of true tax cheats in the bunch, but many amnesty participants -- and all of the ones I'm familiar with -- aren't tax c ... Read more

The Tax Court says so . ... Read the full post ... Read more

Mild Distribution As Nasdaq's Loss Comes On Higher Volume- The major averages closed lower after a series of mixed economic data was released. Volume, a critical component of institutional demand, was heavier than Tuesday's levels across the board which marked a distribution day for the Nasdaq C ... Read more

H&H Bagels , bakers of what Zagat once called iconic bagels, now has a new, and unwelcome, claim to fame (or infamy). New York City alleges that the bagel company's owner, Helmer Toro, is a tax cheat . Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has charged Toro with ... Read th ... Read more

Forbes analysis using four factors: violent crime, workplace fatality rate, traffic death rate, and natural disaster risk. Minneapolis-St. Paul wins and Miami-Fort Lauderdale loses. Surprising to me was the city that ranked worst on the workplace fatality rate: Indianapolis. ... Read th ... Read more

A small bit of genius . ... Read the full post ... Read more

The crackdown on BitTorrent has just moved unauthorized copying to a venue much harder to police . ... Read the full post ... Read more