IRS and Taxes: Five red flags that can trigger an audit – Source – Yahoo Finance (04/09/2021)
Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Denitsa Tsekova discuss red flags when filing taxes.
Category: America and the World
Amazon is the New Walmart of the Workplace – David Haggith (04/09/2021)
Amazon is beating its brick-and-mortar rival, Walmart, for subhuman work conditions. As happened with Walmart, the retail behemoth of virtual space is increasingly developing a monstrous reputation. Walmart had to make major changes as public scorn grew against it.…
88 Years Ago, FDR Banned Gold. Will a Bitcoin Ban Be Next? – Tho Bishop (04/09/2021)
Today is the eighty-eighth anniversary of Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” The order was one of the several disastrous responses…
Today’s global economy runs on standardized shipping containers, as the Ever Given fiasco illustrates – Anna Nagurney (04/09/2021)
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst Take a look around you. Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those…
False Barriers: These Things Should Not Prevent You From Getting a COVID Vaccine – Caroline Chen and Maryam Jameel (04/09/2021)
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Series: Vaccines Vaccinating America As the United States seeks to end its coronavirus crisis and outrun variants, public…
Did Democrats Blow Their Chance to Repeal a Slew of Trump’s Regulatory Attacks? – Jake Johnson (04/09/2021)
In recent weeks, progressive public interest organizations have identified—and implored congressional Democrats to repeal—dozens of former President Donald Trump’s last-minute regulatory attacks on consumers, the environment, immigrants, Social Security, and more. But by the time the deadline to introduce so-called…
Dangerous Monetary Manipulations and Fiscal Follies – Richard M. Ebeling (04/08/2021)
Back in the 1960s, Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) served as the Republican Party minority leader in the U.S. Senate. One of his famous lines about federal government spending was, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about…
Biden and Janet Yellen Are Pushing a Global Minimum Tax Rate. The EU Is Very Pleased. – Ryan McMaken (04/08/2021)
It has long been a dream of central planners and interventionists to set a global, uniform tax rates for all regimes. These globalists know that so long as sovereign states have the ability to freely set their own tax rates,…
