- August 13, 2010It's Friday the 13th, so it seems a perfect time to ask, What are you afraid of? Apparently, many teenagers…
- August 12, 2010There have been countless stories during the bursting of the real estate bubble about homeowners who've simply refused to pay…
- August 12, 2010Tax holidays continue this month, with three states' no-sales-tax days beginning this weekend. Florida reinstated its fall back-to-school tax holiday…
- August 12, 2010Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon G. Cooperman thought he was making a $43 million donation that would save him substantially on…
- August 11, 2010Dan Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1981 to 1994, passed away on Wednesday, Aug.…
- August 11, 2010While most sports spectators have been fixating on Tiger Woods' terrible play, professionals who play the game are fighting a…
- August 10, 2010Last week I joined the chorus of folks cheering the IRS' decision to no longer provide lenders with a debt…
- August 10, 2010Back in June I blogged about how many cities and states depend on the kindness of strangers, AKA tourists and…
- August 9, 2010Now there's a contraception method I bet you never considered. But Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson says that if taxes…
- August 8, 2010The man pictured at left is Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Co., a Southern California private real estate firm.…