12:36 PM 04/25/2013
A new poll indicates that Americans would like to eat their junk food in peace and without interference from the government.
12:36 AM 04/25/2013
Critics of the online sales tax proposal ramped up their criticism Wednesday as the Senate prepares to consider the bill.
6:28 PM 04/22/2013
The Marketplace Fairness Act, which would allow states the mechanism to start collecting taxes for online sales, overwhelmingly passed a Senate cloture vote Monday night, circumventing regular order and drawing concern from a minority of Senators over the end of the debate on the proposal. Seventy four Senators voted in favor of the motion, while 20 dissented.
5:06 PM 04/22/2013
A new analysis released Monday by the Tax Policy Center finds that President Obama's newest budget proposal will leave the top one percent of earners with two-thirds of the tax increase burden suggested by the administration.
1:35 PM 04/22/2013
During economic downturns, retail sales may slow or even grind to a halt. But the latest data suggests men are buying the bare essentials.
12:55 PM 04/22/2013
In an effort to sway public opinion against pending legislation to pass an online sales tax, eBay president John Donahoe launched an all-out email campaign Sunday morning, leveraging the auction site's nearly 40 million small online merchants to contact Congress on the issue of online sales tax.
2:25 AM 04/17/2013
The federal government continues to forgo more money to corporate tax expenditures, in the form of corporate subsidies and tax loopholes.
1:36 AM 04/16/2013
This Tax Day, most Americans see the income taxes they pay as fair. However, the number is shrinking compared to the year before.
1:32 PM 04/15/2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being advised to impose new taxes on the rich to pay for the ongoing bailouts to the weaker countries in the Eurozone.
10:54 PM 04/13/2013
A colorful character is once again missing from The Master's Tournament.
4:10 PM 04/12/2013
Kim Kardashian has sure had one hell of a pregnancy. First, the tabloids have spewed fat jokes right and left about her. Then she was accused of lying about her pregnancy, or at least the due date. And now, her still contractually-bound husband Kris Humphries won't even show up to court to end their marriage.
2:22 PM 04/12/2013
Springtime means golf season ... for some people, anyway.
3:19 PM 04/11/2013
A coalition of brick and mortar retail store owners gathered in Washington, D.C. Thursday asking Congress for action on online sales tax.
2:28 AM 04/11/2013
We all know that the Internet is a place for trolls of the world to unite, congregate and write unseemly things in comment sections of forums.
5:19 PM 04/10/2013
A record of the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting reveals that some Federal Reserve Board officials have grown more wary of the continued asset buyback program known as quantitative easing.
1:31 PM 04/10/2013
President Barack Obama accounted for a nearly $1 billion bailout for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the home-mortgage insurance agency that has been floundering for cash since last November, in his budget released Wednesday. Such a bailout would be the first for the agency in its 80-year history.
10:24 AM 04/10/2013
The media is all abuzz with Kim Kardashian's pregnancy these days: she fat? Should she really be wearing leather pants while pregnant? What is that cape-like thing she wore the other week? Is she lying about her delivery date? Is she lying about her pregnancy? Why did she wear that dress that made people compare her to an orca whale?
10:36 PM 04/09/2013
Baseball season is in full swing -- literally. And since it's America's pastime, everyone is required to love baseball.
3:29 PM 04/09/2013
As the full impact of the federal budget cuts from the sequester continue to roll out, Americans are learning that the Navy's Blue Angels may be skipping their city this year.
2:09 PM 04/09/2013
Despite a substandard jobs report from last Friday, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard thinks it might be time to scale back the central bank's asset purchasing program known as quantitative easing.
