by Leif Jensen | Jun 5, 2024 | Rant |
Every second book in America, ballpark, is being sold via e-commerce…Amazon.com has 50 million books available. A bookstore, a good independent bookstore, has around 50,000 different books available… an algorithm decides what is being presented and made visible and...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 3, 2024 | Rant |
My son sent me a story/article the other day which shared the stats from a DOJ case regarding Penguin wanting to buy Simon and Shuster. The deal was killed because of monopoly issues. Penguin has 37% of the market and Shuster has 11%, a merger would dominate the...
by Leif Jensen | May 29, 2024 | Taxes |
The IRS has this pesky thing about taxes, they expect them to be paid. I have a couple of clients who are independent contractors and they should be. But they tend to not gross a lot of money and never plan for the inevitability of income taxes. They believe that they...
by Leif Jensen | May 27, 2024 | Investing |
A couple of years ago crypto was all over the news and the IRS was seeming addressing the issue constantly. That is not the case at the moment. That may be because of Crypto and it’s many losses – I am seeing client dumping crypto in multiple forms and taking heavy...
by Leif Jensen | May 22, 2024 | Taxes |
A surprising number of clients are currently going through a divorce this tax season. Both sides have been asking all sorts of questions. Usually about the others income, probably at the behest of their attorney. All of these clients are still filing joint returns,...