Better Spending Income & Wealth The Rewards of Being a Free Agent Customer Think of this as a progress report. Three years By Scott Burns / September 16, 2023
Better Spending Home Ownership Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Uncategorized Talking (Really) Personal Finance Here’s a link to an interview I did with economist Larry Kotlikoff for his podcast. By Scott Burns / January 22, 2023
Better Spending Income & Wealth Still At Large The High Cost of Immortality How do you go about giving away hundreds of millions? That’s a serious question. It’s By Scott Burns / December 18, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth Inflation Making Good Use of the Consumer Price Index Can the consumer price index be anything but scary? I By Scott Burns / December 3, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth Gimme Shelter! In a masterpiece of understatement, Jerome Powell, chairman of By Scott Burns / July 2, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth SPIVA: The Investment News That’s No Longer News The trouble with news reporting is that when something By Scott Burns / June 19, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth How to Guess the 2023 Social Security COLA Increase Inflation is running hot and fast. Department of Labor inflation figures for April, released earlier By Scott Burns / May 21, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth Do Bonds Have a Future? As financial events go, this one was pretty reliable. When stocks went down, the value By Scott Burns / May 14, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth Making a Plan to Retire Now, Not Later St. Petersburg, FL. Imagine this: You’re 60 and divorced. You have a job you hate. By Scott Burns / April 25, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Incredible Disappearing Luxury Carrot My friend, an almost-retired Dallas attorney, is agitated. “I just can’t believe it,” he says. By Scott Burns / April 9, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Real Cost of Buying a Home What’s the cost of buying a home? Yes, this is a trick question. By Scott Burns / March 27, 2022