Income & Wealth Social Security Social Security and Medicare: Getting Worse, But Out of Sight Here today, gone tomorrow. Attention to the annual reports from the Social Security and Medicare By Scott Burns / August 10, 2014
Home Ownership Income & Wealth Inflation Retirement The Amazing Arithmetic of Home Ownership A lot of people are down on home ownership these days, some for good reason. By Scott Burns / July 6, 2014
Better Spending Income & Wealth Taxes Going Down the Intermediary Drain Do you suffer from Intermediary Drain? Yes, it’s an embarrassing question. It’s something most By Scott Burns / June 1, 2014
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth It’s Twilight for Managed Mutual Funds It doesn’t matter how many pages of advertising they take out in the glossy financial By Scott Burns / May 18, 2014
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth How To Invest For Your Future… In Only 13 Pages He’s definitely at the high end of the raw brainpower scale. A Ph.D. biochemist, he By Scott Burns / May 11, 2014
Better Spending Income & Wealth A New Economic Indicator Says: Don’t Worry, Be Happy ISLAMORADA, FLORIDA. Life in the Keys is pretty laid back. At least it can be, By Scott Burns / April 6, 2014
At Large Consumption Smoothing Income & Wealth Measuring Longevity, Another Way How deeply have you sipped from life’s glass? How much is left? That’s a By Scott Burns / March 30, 2014
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Taxes Hedge Funds: Big On Buns, Short On Beef “Secretariat couldn’t win the Kentucky Derby with Shaquille O’Neal on his back.” That’s how John By Scott Burns / February 9, 2014
Couch Potato Investing CP portfolio recipes Income & Wealth A Modest Year, But Way Better Than Hedge Funds A few words attributed to Winston Churchill could well describe Couch Potato investors for 2013. By Scott Burns / February 2, 2014
Better Spending Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security A Good Strategy for Increasing Future Retirement Income The most difficult idea to communicate in personal finance is the advantage of delaying Social By Scott Burns / January 26, 2014
Better Spending Income & Wealth Charitable Gift Funds Make Giving Easy Suppose you have a sudden surge of income or, better yet, wealth. What do you By Scott Burns / December 22, 2013