IRS Audit
Kerby AndersonKerby Anderson Today is Tax Day. Perhaps you are like many other Americans and wonder if your tax forms will be audited. It turns out that the IRS has been…
Owning a Home
Kerby Anderson A few months ago, I talked about the future decline in home ownership. For example, the number of first-time homebuyers declined to just 26 percent in 2022. This…
Inflation Underestimated
Kerby Anderson Veronique de Rugy begins her column with positive economic indicators (unemployment is low, wages are up, inflation is down), but then acknowledges that “the American people are grumpy…
AI Bias
Kerby Anderson Is there a leftist bias in artificial intelligence? A Washington Post tech writer has written about various research papers about the liberal bias within Open AI’s ChatGPT. Although…
America’s Future
Kerby Anderson What is America’s future? Columnist Cal Thomas considers that question in his book, America’s Expiration Date. The book came out years ago but has a new preface and…
Woke Institutions
Kerby Anderson Law professor Glenn Reynolds wonders why so many woke institutions continue to do things that hurt their bottom line. We have all heard the catchphrase “go woke, go…
Solar Eclipse
Kerby Anderson In the opening chapter of his book, The Privileged Planet, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez talks about watching a total eclipse in India in 1995. In order to have a…
Deflation
Kerby Anderson Inflation has been so much a part of our economic lives, so we take it for granted. Although the Federal Reserve aims for an inflation target of 2…
Phones and Happiness
Kerby Anderson The most recent Gallup survey has both good news and bad news. The good news is that Americans over the age of 60 may be some of the…
Net-Zero Emissions
Kerby Anderson Bjorn Lomborg reminds us, “More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year.” He says we could solve that problem by having governments reduce speed…