Erik Sherman
Forbes
Northfield, MA, United States
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Billionaire Tax? How About Millionaire And Corporate Tax?
If you’re going where the money is, make sure you find all of it. → Read More
How Do Some Executives Pay Taxes? By Selling Stock With Insider Information, Study Suggests
A study by two professors of accounting who studied years of data suggests that CEOs regularly break the law to feather their nests. → Read More
The IRS Continues To Focus Its Audits On Poor People, Not Millionaires
If you’re interested in seeing greater fairness, this is why you want the IRS to have more agents so they can audit those who might really have something to pay up. → Read More
Why The Renters Bill Of Rights Won’t Help Much
A set of principles may be good in concept, but they don’t come close to addressing the big problems of skyrocketed rents or the imbalance of power between landlords and tenants. → Read More
Best Dividend Stocks To Beat Inflation In 2023
Dividends provide additional cash, and while the extra money doesn’t solve inflation’s impact entirely, it does make it less painful “Dividend payers can help beat the market in an inflationary environment in two ways,” says R. Burns McKinney, managing director and senior portfolio manager at NFJ... → Read More
Blame Corporations And The Federal Government For The Strong Labor Market
And then stop trying to economically punish workers for what they can’t control. → Read More
What’s The Fed’s Next Move On Interest Rates? Even Its Leaders Don’t Know
But don’t expect that the pain will suddenly stop. → Read More
You Can’t Understand The Job Market If You Don’t Get Self-Employment
Maybe that’s why unemployment has been trending down. But that could change if the Biden administration gets its way and successfully introduces draconian regulation. → Read More
Corporate executives are desperate for MBA grads to finally learn these 5 things
Several corporate leaders shared with Fortune the five areas where business schools must step up their game to better prepare MBA grads. → Read More
$400 Billion For Student Loan Forgiveness, $2,300 Billion For Tax Cuts
The shock and angst over student loan forgiveness tends to forget much bigger giveaways in the recent past. → Read More
If You Don’t Know What You’re Doing, Avoid House Flipping
Yes, even with market pushback, houses are going for sky-high prices. But chances are you’ll lose your in a big way. → Read More
The Big Reason Why Student Loans, And So Much More, Must Refer To The 1970s
If you don’t know what things were like when they were more reasonable, you can’t grasp how much the present needs to change. → Read More
The Numbers That Show Why So Many College Students Need Help With Loans
It’s not only a matter of diligence, but how most of households in this country can’t come close to paying for college and so millions of students need to borrow large sums. → Read More
Buying A House Is About To Get Even Harder
That might seem impossible, but the rate of house building looks about to fall even further. → Read More
Gun Safety Bill Extends Drug Middlemen Protection From Anti-Kickback Measure
Big drug sellers got a major concession that has nothing to do with making communities safer from gun violence. → Read More
Why Won’t Congress Do What Mark Cuban Is Doing For Affordable Drug Prices?
He’s a billionaire. The U.S. may have much larger resources but hasn’t been willing. → Read More
American Economic Anxiety Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone
The data seems to say the economy is fine. Unfortunately, most of the people aren’t. → Read More
Want diversity in your company? Here’s what leading B-school experts say you really need to do
While business schools have made some strides on diversity, they remain insular in many other ways. → Read More
Government Should Stop Punishing The Poor For Trying To Make Things A Little Better
Punitive rules make people even more dependent on government aid, not less. → Read More
Instead Of Market Fear, Let’s Try Some Historical Perspective
Smart investing means looking a few years in advance, not a few weeks. → Read More