There are two things in life you can’t escape. Death is one. The tax code is the other. The tax code, bless its heart, is a monster. It was written by ten thousand lawyers who were all paid by the hour, and it’s a million pages long, and it contradicts itself on every third page. […]
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The economy is taking a nosedive. The numbers on the big board are redder than a baboon’s backside. The bank is calling, the customers are vanishing, and the coffee machine is making that gurgling sound again, the one that signals the end of all hope. And in the boardroom, the big-shots are doing what big-shots
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Listen: the world is full of numbers. They’re like snowflakes in a blizzard, falling endlessly, each one unique, each one a testament to something. We used to just shiver and pull our coats tighter. Now, we’re supposed to build igloos out of them. We’re told these numbers, these cold, hard facts, are the bedrock of
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