How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company March 27, 2014, and Satya Nadella was about to make his first public appearance as CEO of Microsoft. The tone, he knew, would be important. Nadella’s predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was famous for making public appearances feel epic. At a 1991 meeting in Japan, he […]

Tax refund advance loans are often too good to be true. Here’s what you should know Plenty of people would jump at the chance to speed up getting some of their tax-refund cash, especially in light of job cuts and other financial headaches. But most Americans story may make those desperate to pay their bills […]

What Tax Reform Means For Small Businesses & Pass-Through Entities One of the most significant changes under tax reform is the tax treatment of businesses. Unlike changes to the individual tax scheme, which are temporary and somewhat piecemeal, the changes to the business tax scheme are permanent and fairly comprehensive. It would be impossible to […]

Trump Trade War Helps Push Farmers Into Record Number Of Bankruptcies Hard times for farmers got tougher with President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now Midwestern farmers are filing the highest number of bankruptcies in a decade, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data. And farmers aren’t hopeful about this year. Twice as […]

People are really unhappy with their tax refunds this year “Well Trump and those robber barons are enjoying their freebies. Laughing in the face of us all. Enjoy Boys” I just got back from my tax accountant. All I can say is you phucked us bad. On the same income as 2017 I went from […]

Americans are finally finding out they got royally screwed by the Republican tax scam In late 2017, about a year before they were summarily booted out of office, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed something they called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.” At that time Republicans not only made […]

Federal workers stiffed in Trump’s shutdown still haven’t been paid Some federal workers still haven’t gotten back pay from the 35-day Trump shut down — and Trump is threatening another one if he doesn’t get what he wants. As of Thursday, some federal workers have not received back pay from the first Trump government shutdown […]

2 Years of Trump Vs. 2 Years of Obama: Halfway through his first term as Vladimir Putin’s Executive Assistant in Charge of U.S. Operations, Donald Trump claims he has accomplished more than any administration in history, including the highly successful Cash Money Records administration that took over for the ’99 and 2000s. We wanted to […]

Majority favor ‘Medicare-for-all,’ but with a catch Most Americans want a version of Medicare for everyone, which is good news for presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris and other Democrats who support “Medicare-for-all,” a national health care proposal in which people would get their insurance from a single government plan. But there is an enormous catch: […]

Bad mistakes that make good employees leave “Following The Money brings us to some very interesting issues and this is one where we thought that our readers who are good employees would share with their employers results from professionals as to where they fall short” It’s tough to hold on to good employees, but it […]