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  Maurice Fayne, did you think you would get away with it? Did you think styling yourself "Arkansas Mo" on a show like VH1's "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" made you the kind of guy who can pull a con on the down low? When you borrowed $2,045,800 from the Paycheck Protection Program, did you really th...
05/23/2020
 In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Ever since then, Americans have spent that day destroying Mom's kitchen in the name of breakfast in bed, tramping through her garden in the name of bringing her flowers, and making up for the phon...
05/13/2020
So you or your clients got your PPP Loan money - Congratulations...now what? Congress has allocated more than $600 billion to PPP loans, with, maybe, more to come.  Many questions have arisen how businesses should use these funds and account for them to obtain the promised loan forgiveness.  In ...
05/09/2020
  American law schools sponsor over 200 law reviews: dense collections of grim, wooden prose, groaning with footnotes. (Chief Justice John Roberts once said "Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, and the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidenti...
05/06/2020
 COVID-19 is affecting millions of Americans in all aspects of their life. As of the beginning of May, 1 million Americans tested positive for the disease. A much more striking number is the number of people whose finances have been shred to pieces with the prolonged shutdown and “stay-at-home” o...
05/04/2020
  Much like a natural disaster, the coronavirus took the world by storm and forced everyone to seek “shelter at home” and to change their daily habits in an effort to “flatten the curve”. This meant shutting down businesses and within a week, millions of Americans found themselves out of a job. B...
05/01/2020
 Life comes at you fast. Two months ago, the Dow was flirting with 30,000, unemployment was at 3.5%, and the economy was looking forward to spring with the rest of us. Today, of course, we've put the economy in a medically-induced coma. People who are trapped at home with cranky partners and chil...
04/27/2020
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. It gave us a great opportunity to indulge in the sort of lowbrow humor that made MAD magazine such a hit with 10-year-old boys. The problem turns out to be simple. Toilet paper makers produce two separate products for ...
04/21/2020
  COVID-19 turned the world upside down. With most of the country shut down, businesses closed, and people forced to “stay-at-home” in order to keep everyone safe, it was just a matter of time before the IRS postponed tax day. On March 21, 2020, the IRS announced that they’d be delaying the tax f...
04/17/2020
 Our calendar is full of "Hallmark holidays": meaningless commemorations and celebrations, usually created by marketers and publicists. Just this month, there's National Talk Like Shakespeare Day, National Hug a Plumber Day, and National Wear Pajamas to Work Day. (That last one may not feel like ...
04/13/2020
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