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More taxpayer education could get some people out of this IRS vortex, but the real issue is assumptions guiding the agency’s apparent fixation on certain Black filers.

Today on TAP: Nobody understands or explains the corruption of the financial system better than the Massachusetts senator.

Professor Jon Shelton explains why education doesn't fix inequality.

Bad financial supervision, a panicky response, and now the Fed has created a trigger policy for more inflation.

Financial expert Daniel Davies explains why Silicon Valley Bank imploded.

Every individual and business should get the same Federal Reserve account benefits that banks enjoy.

Today on TAP: Silicon Valley libertarianism, every congressional Republican, 50 congressional Democrats—and why are some still sitting on the banking committees?

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse exposes a reality that rich people would prefer to ignore.

A shaky banking system, for one. A failure to comprehend how the climate crisis raises prices, for another. Will the Fed continue to compound the damage?

Diesel engines have gotten a sweetheart deal from environmental regulators. It’s time that changed.

Today on TAP: What if the assets backing cryptocurrencies are as volatile as crypto itself?

The debate over protecting all deposits in a blink looks past the incompetence that got us here.

A series of communications last week show the fault lines, and pitfalls, in dealing with an increasingly illiberal Israeli government.

Joe Manchin has protecting America exactly backwards.

When a president attempts a coup, his lackeys ought to be purged from federal service.

Today on TAP: Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is a function of the Fed rate spike, and will surely trigger calls for its well-heeled tech and venture capital clients to get a bailout.

The witness said that the Supreme Court finding CFPB’s funding unconstitutional ‘could result in significant problems throughout the financial system.’

How Florida’s anti-diversity legislation may be a model for the Supreme Court

Once a spectacle produced by and for white people, Black artists and entertainers now present it on their own terms.

Congress is set to receive a report on how the IRS can streamline the tax filing process after lobbyists for Intuit bundled millions for the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.