Treasury Secretary Lew says he has lots of ideas to resolve the Greek crisis. Europe doesn’t care.
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IRS Makes Executors Ask, ‘Mother May I?’
The IRS no longer automatically issues closing letters to let executors settle estates. It has not said how to request one.
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Updating The Beeb
Britons must pay an annual television license fee to support the BBC or face a stiff fine. So they are abandoning their TVs.
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Talking About Money: The Family Meeting
If you hate talking about your finances, you are not alone. When family relationships are added to the mix, it is hardly surprising that many people are quick to push discussions about financial topics to the bottom of their to-do lists. But a family meeting can provide family members a forum in which to start these difficult conversations.
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Europe’s Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico isn’t America’s Greece, and Greece will be lucky to become Europe’s Puerto Rico.
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Political Medicine
Giving patients access to drugs they demand regardless of the science can be good politics, but it’s bad medicine.
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Planting The Seeds Of Future Kidnappings
The administration says it will not pay kidnappers, but hostages’ families may do so. To a terrorist banker, that’s just as good.
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All Uber, Or Uber Alles?
A business can operate outside the law and succeed – but not indefinitely.
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Anthony Criscuolo in Forbes
Anthony Criscuolo suggests ways to teach children of any age about money using common summer vacation activities.
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A Crisis Of Competence
We can’t defend national security until we define it sensibly, as a devastating federal computer breach demonstrates.
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