Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Front Door and Back Door Tax Increases As emails go, it was unusual. It was from a Republican candidate for the U.S. By Scott Burns / February 13, 2011
Retirement Social Security Taxes Future Medicare: Cheap, But Not Available If the reports from the Trustees for Social Security and Medicare are accurate, our collective By Scott Burns / August 15, 2010
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Comparing Paychecks: Workers and Retirees As far as I can tell, the goal of the AARP--- the American Association of By Scott Burns / October 18, 2009
At Large Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Representation without Taxation “No taxation without representation!” That verbal tinder started the fires of our revolt against British By Scott Burns / August 7, 2009
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Life of Riley Index, Retiree Version It requires gobs of money to be a person of independent means when you are By Scott Burns / July 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
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes A Meditation on McDonald’s McDonald’s, 9 a.m.My coffee, as usual, is tasty and lawsuit hot. I look around and By Scott Burns / February 22, 2009
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Inflation Retirement Social Security At Least You Still Have Your Human Capital It’s ugly out there. Millions of people have lost a major part of their financial By Scott Burns / October 26, 2008
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Taxes Two Candidates with a Nasty Secret In the coming election, two major candidates share a nasty secret. Twenty-five years ago the By Scott Burns / October 12, 2008
Better Spending Consumption Smoothing Income & Wealth Inflation Retirement Social Security Getting an Economic Grip The patient suffered a cardiac arrest. A dangerous amount of time has passed. Although the By Scott Burns / October 4, 2008
Social Security The Amazing Deficit Reduction— Not! When it comes to financial magic, the government of the United States takes the prize. By Scott Burns / November 18, 2007