The puzzle of child-care costs

Here are three of the week's top pieces of financial insights, gathered from around the web: When 'free' filing isn't free Intuit knows it is deceiving customers with "free" tax-filing services that have made the company billions, said Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel at ProPublica. In recent years, Intuit has "unleashed a battalion of lobbyists" to persuade lawmakers to stop the IRS from creating a no-cost tax-filing option that might compete with its TurboTax. The company also hired...