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
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Why 2.4 Million Workers Chose a New Job at Retirement, Inc. Covid-19 has been a Red Pill Moment for American workers. It revealed our work culture. By Scott Burns / March 12, 2022
Income & Wealth Retirement Still At Large The Longevity Economy: Revisited & Celebrated You may have noticed: Things change. That’s why I reread Joseph Coughlin’s “The Longevity Economy” By Scott Burns / February 26, 2022
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth The Pudding Report, 2021: How much is that in dollars? “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” As someone who loves food, that’s By Scott Burns / February 13, 2022
Better Spending Consumption Smoothing Income & Wealth Social Security Money Magic Is Real Life Magic The book has a striking dust jacket. It’s easily worth more than a thousand words. By Scott Burns / January 29, 2022
Income & Wealth Inflation Where Are the Bond Vigilantes? No, they won’t arrive like the cavalry, heralded by a trumpet. Today I’m wondering if By Scott Burns / January 15, 2022
Better Spending Income & Wealth Giving: Now, Later or After? Most people think about giving as something to do when they are dead. What a By Scott Burns / December 18, 2021