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  The much-anticipated 2020 Tokyo Olympics have come and gone. As usual, the quadrennial celebration of sport included a few surprises. For starters, there were no spectators in the audience. Gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from several marquee events with a case of the "twisties," which seemed...

We've talked here a time or two about how taxes factor into every financial choice you make. Whether you're selling a business, exercising stock options, or just treating yourself to a summer sundae at the neighborhood soft serve, you'll find a government with its hand...

Fifteen months of COVID-19 have changed the face of employment here in America. The pandemic wiped out 20 million jobs, yet employers are struggling to hire while employees reevaluate their post-pandemic plans. Can you spin your old position into a work-from-home opportunity? Should you take...

Back in 1997, Delaware Senator Bill Roth sponsored a new kind of retirement savings account with a back-end benefit. In contrast to traditional IRAs, which let you deduct your contributions and defer tax until you pull money out, the Roth IRA lets you contribute after-tax...

Writing a funny tax column every week, and keeping it as consistently brilliant as we do, is actually harder than it looks. (Less glamorous, too.) Sometimes there just isn't an obviously fun story to cover. What do we write about in a week with no...

Fifty years ago on June 30, Paramount Pictures released an enchanting spun-sugar delight of a movie that remains a classic. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory features Gene Wilder as the reclusive confectioner who hides five Golden Tickets in his candy bars and promises the finders a...

Most Americans would agree that capitalism is the greatest wealth creation engine the world has ever known. But it's hard to argue that capitalism distributes its rewards equally, and today's "winner take all" economy is concentrating wealth beyond Gilded Age levels. Forget about that top...

In 1979, China launched what would become the world's toughest population control measure, the "one-child policy." Families with just one child got rewarded with a "one-child glory certificate" and five yuan per month (about as exciting as a stack of Wendy's coupons). There were always...