Couch Potato Investing Home Ownership Income & Wealth Retirement Lock n’ Load: We’re on Foreclosure Safari! LAS VEGAS. If you’d like to learn about adapting to change, spend an afternoon with By Scott Burns / April 5, 2009
Couch Potato Investing Home Ownership Income & Wealth Social Security Your Wealth Is Not Your Standard of Living Here’s a challenging thought: Things aren’t as bad as they seem. Since there is plenty By Scott Burns / March 1, 2009
Consumption Smoothing Couch Potato Investing Home Ownership Income & Wealth Retirement Letter from Mexico: In Puerto Vallarta, Condos-are-US PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO. Standing on our 10th-floor balcony at the Westin, my wife hands me By Scott Burns / April 26, 2008
Home Ownership Shouldn’t We Be Really Nice To Everyone? Remember Gresham’s law? It’s the one that says bad money drives out the good money. By Scott Burns / February 10, 2008
Home Ownership Income & Wealth Slider-Land FORT MEYERS, Fla.--- Here, people don’t ask whether we are headed for a recession. They By Scott Burns / January 27, 2008
Home Ownership Income & Wealth Inflation Déjà vu, Texas Lately I’ve been getting that déjà vu feeling. If you lived in Texas through the By Scott Burns / October 7, 2007
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Home Ownership Income & Wealth Lord Byron Said It First “Yes. Ready money is Aladdin’s Lamp.” ---Lord Byron, 1788-1824 Most of us don’t appreciate the By Scott Burns / August 26, 2007
Home Ownership Taxes The Sublime Beauty of Inflating Houses If you bought a house in Los Angeles in the early ‘90s, you were “catching By Scott Burns / May 20, 2007
Consumption Smoothing Home Ownership Inflation Taxes The Sublime Beauty of Falling Knives Would you dare buy a house in California today? In spite of mind-boggling prices, the By Scott Burns / April 8, 2007
Better Spending Home Ownership Income & Wealth Why Divorce Will Lower Your Standard of Living Everyone knows that divorce is expensive. Everyone knows that it will reduce your standard of By Scott Burns / September 3, 2006
Better Spending Home Ownership Income & Wealth Some Fortunes are Lost. Others are missed. It’s a tough story. Newlyweds in their early 20s buy their first home with no By Scott Burns / September 4, 2005