Author: Tanja Fijalkowski
Tanja Fijalkowski
Tanja Fijalkowski is Fiscal Report staff writer and Managing Editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a writing degree from University of California, San Diego. Over the course of her career, she has written and edited award-winning, Amazon top-selling books with a specialization in the topics of finance, investing, news, history, and science. She has over 4 years experience in the finance and insurance industry as an underwriter.
The Boring Company’s Series C investment round netted $675 million from prestigious venture capital firms with a $7 billion valuation.
Kamala Harris’s policies center around what she calls an “opportunity economy,” focusing on boosting the middle class and taxing the wealthy.
Paul Allen’s second wave auction included an original Apple-1 computer, two supercomputers from the ’80s, and a letter from Einstein to FDR.
Though presidential elections tend to make politics more polarizing, a large majority of Americans agree on a wide range of issues.
With women’s participation in the work force at all time highs, one Redditor asked men who they really feel about higher-earning partners.
Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis is a sobering harbinger of sharp rise of early-onset cancers globally.
With the election coming up in November, many are wondering how Trump and Harris would address the Social Security and Medicare programs supporting America’s retirees. Retirees aren’t the only ones with skin in the game: A recent Gallup poll found that more than 70% of Americans under the age of 65 are concerned Social Security benefits won’t be available by the time they are eligible to start collecting them. They might be right: Most recent estimates project that at current benefit levels, the Social Security reserves will be depleted by 2035. With the “silver tsunami” of Baby Boomers expected to…
J.D. Vance said increased immigration led to the house affordability crisis. Walz says it’s Wall Street investors. Who’s right?
Opinion: JD Vance may have won the debate at first glance, but his smooth talking and eloquent rhetoric should be feared, not celebrated.
A joint Treasury Department and IRS crackdown has recovered $1.3 billion from wealthy tax dodgers, according to a recent press release. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the very wealthiest Americans owe the most, with the top 1% owing more than 20% of unpaid taxes. In 2023 and 2024, the IRS has focused on tracking down tax evaders with over $1 million in annual income and more than $250,000 in unpaid tax obligations. In several top cases cited by the IRS, tax evasion is not their only crime. The IRS makes no exceptions for incomes earned through illegal activities. Mark Anthony…