Recently, I wrote that if corporations are people, they need to be better Americans. (blog 8/15/14)  They need to pay their taxes, for example.  Allan Sloan’s new article in Fortune explains one way some companies are shirking their duty.  (“Positively Un-American,” by Allan

Every year I pay  to have someone prepare my taxes.  I don’t use TurboTax because a friend’s experience left him tied in knots and feeling as if he’d been forced to waltz with an octopus.  That’s why I’d rather pay to have my taxes done than wander alone through the bramb

If I could add another amendment to The United States Constitution it would read: Section I: Congress shall enact no laws that a person of average intelligence is unable to understand. Section II: Any administrative rules created to regulate, enforce and/or clarify said law shall be l

Today’s blog is about banking in the United States, a topic that might hold little interest for readers who live outside the country, but we all know that when our financial system hiccups, there are reverberations around the globe. Today, our guide through the wonderland of high fi

Allan Sloan, as I’ve mentioned, is one of my favorite financial columnists. He’s funny, he’s clear and he majors in common sense. His latest column in Fortune reminds investors of the three rules they should follow to avoid losing great sums of money in the stock market. They ar

One of my favorite financial writers is Allan Sloan. He authors a column for Fortune magazine and does occasional commentary on OPB’s Nightly Business Report. What makes him different from other prognosticators is his humor, which is more Puckish than cynical. “What fools these mo