Better Spending Social Security Introducing the 94 Percent This an early bulletin from the huge volume of email I received after asking readers By Scott Burns / February 13, 2004
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Social Security The Bigger Scoreboard: Implied Wealth “Scott, that column really depressed me,” a doctor friend told me shortly after the first By Scott Burns / September 9, 2003
Retirement Social Security Taxes The $43 Trillion Surprise On Friday May 16 the word was out. A $350 billion tax cut was a By Scott Burns / June 1, 2003
Retirement Social Security Taxes Home Ownership Tax Deductions, Examined Make a list of the ten things Americans hold most dear. There is a good By Scott Burns / May 6, 2003
Retirement Social Security Taxes The Monster In The Social Security Report The Devil, they say, is “in the details.” So it is with our government. It By Scott Burns / May 4, 2003
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