Is it wrong to promise a child a pony to get her to calm down before surgery? An anesthesiologist posed …
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The First World Series I (Mostly) Never Saw
The first World Series game I ever cared about was played on a Wednesday afternoon in 1967. The St. Louis …
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“Helicopter Ben” Climbs Into The Cockpit
In about a week, “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke will launch a new assault in America’s war on thrift. The Federal Reserve …
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IRS Fixes A Tax Court Slip-Up
Tax laws are seldom models of clarity. Sometimes they are more garbled than a software manual that has been computer-translated …
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Rebecca Pavese in Bloomberg
Rebecca Pavese discusses tax strategies relating to required minimum distributions.
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When Mattie Meets Halley
Awhile back, Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote a pretty little song about a baby and a comet. In Halley Came To …
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Shomari Hearn in Chicago Breaking Business
Chicago Breaking Business, October 20, 2010Shomari Hearn suggests some situations in which it makes sense to withdraw more than the …
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When Bosses Collude Against Their Talent
Back in the 1980s, Major League Baseball owners were unhappy about having to match other teams’ lucrative offers to free-agent …
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Congressional Insiders Trade Whenever They Want
You don’t have to be a corporate insider to run afoul of laws against insider trading, and you don’t need …
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