Income & Wealth Social Security Fine-Tuning the Social Security Benefits Decision Married women should take Social Security benefits early. Married men and single women should take By Scott Burns / January 29, 2006
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security How To Play Catch-Up On Retirement Over the last 40 years my wife and I raised seven children. Consequently, we find By Scott Burns / November 23, 2004
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Understanding Social Security, the Trust Fund, and Future Benefits For most people it’s TMI--- Too Much Information. In recent weeks, one reader confidently informed By Scott Burns / July 20, 2004
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Hey, Kid! Got $8.6 Trillion? "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native By Scott Burns / July 4, 2004
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