Inflation Social Security Taxes How The Tax Torpedo Hits The Tax Torpedo, part 1 Portfolio managers call them “torpedo stocks.” They are the disastrous By Scott Burns / February 11, 2003
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Magic Bullet of Investment Return For the middle of the Great Depression, it was a masterstroke. The savings of millions By Scott Burns / November 19, 2002
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Magic Bullet of Investment Return Live long and prosper! If we do the first, we may not be able to By Scott Burns / November 17, 2002
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security How To Avoid Being A Boiled Frog The instructions are very clear. If you want to boil a frog, you don’t drop By Scott Burns / August 27, 2002
Retirement Social Security 401(k) Plans Will Surpass Social Security— in Time CAMBRIDGE, MA. Through his office window in MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan building, you can see By Scott Burns / June 18, 2002
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes There Never Was A Surplus Before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, daily political posturing By Scott Burns / September 18, 2001
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Preparing for the Coming Social Security Debate Soon the debate on Social Security will be renewed. The recommendations are already on the By Scott Burns / July 24, 2001
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Big Dogs Eat Fois Gras "You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows." -- Bob Dylan By Scott Burns / July 8, 2001
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Enough of this TomFoolery, Vote for Me! Allow me to introduce the Dark Pony Party. If you haven’t heard of it, don’t By Scott Burns / November 5, 2000
Income & Wealth Social Security The Other Side of Benefits Mountain You’ve heard it before: Corporations are no longer loyal to their employees or vice versa. By Scott Burns / October 3, 2000
Income & Wealth Inflation Retirement Social Security Taxes The Retiree Tax The Retiree Tax Does $60,000 or $70,000 a year strike you as a fat cat By Scott Burns / August 13, 2000