Better Spending Income & Wealth H.R. 975: Another Reason To Avoid Credit Cards Talk to lenders about excessive credit card debt and our somber friends in the wing By Scott Burns / March 2, 2004
Better Spending Social Security Introducing the 94 Percent This an early bulletin from the huge volume of email I received after asking readers By Scott Burns / February 13, 2004
At Large Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Fearless Predictions for 2004 The one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind. We all know this. By Scott Burns / December 28, 2003
Better Spending Consumption Smoothing The Real Change In Family Finances We’re all dancing as fast as we can. That may be why rising stock prices By Scott Burns / September 23, 2003
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Social Security The Bigger Scoreboard: Implied Wealth “Scott, that column really depressed me,” a doctor friend told me shortly after the first By Scott Burns / September 9, 2003
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth The Disadvantage of Variable Annuities, in Dollars A recent column on variable annuities provoked the predictable torrent of hate mail from those By Scott Burns / August 19, 2003
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Building the Universal Couch Potato Portfolio It’s not easy being a Couch Potato. As we’ve just seen from a reader in By Scott Burns / July 22, 2003
Better Spending Inflation Your Helicopter Is On The Way Real life is stranger than fiction. There I was, doing my regular economic reading. Suddenly, By Scott Burns / June 29, 2003
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Inflation Adventure Capitalist This book is a page-turner. It deserves to be number one on your summer reading By Scott Burns / June 8, 2003
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Variable Annuities That Beat Taxable Funds “Are Variable Annuities Right For Your Clients?” That’s the title of an interesting article in By Scott Burns / February 25, 2003
Better Spending Income & Wealth Retirement The Leverage of Saving Saving, like regular flossing, is good for us. We know that. The hard part is By Scott Burns / January 12, 2003