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
At Large Home Ownership Letter from California: Working Stiff Houses, Fat Cat Prices SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA. Just beyond the Safeway parking lot, my early morning walk takes me By Scott Burns / May 1, 2005
At Large Home Ownership Retirement A Vision Fulfilled in Mesa Living Lite: Wealth With Less Money MESA, Arizona. If there is an intergalactic RV capital, By Scott Burns / April 4, 2004
Home Ownership Income & Wealth Taxes Bubble Support 101: A Tale of Two Cities BOSTON. Nearly forty years ago I bought my first house here. I paid a record By Scott Burns / April 29, 2003