Income & Wealth Huzzah! Living the Life of Riley Costs $1 Million Less. The cost of retiring to the good life has fallen. In the Burns household, we By Scott Burns / July 22, 2018
Couch Potato Investing Living (Well) with the Basic Couch Potato Millions of retirees were scared out of the stock market over the last 20 years. By Scott Burns / July 15, 2018
Better Spending Still At Large Finding the Top of Up-Scale It was just an item on the “honey do” list. Would I go to the By Scott Burns / July 8, 2018
Couch Potato Investing The Couch Potato Investing Report: 2017 Yes, reporting on 2017 isn’t what you’d call timely news. Last year has been over By Scott Burns / July 1, 2018
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Taxes Social Security: A Tale of Two Menus Recent columns brought lots of reader mail. The columns criticized proposed legislation from Rep. Sam By Scott Burns / February 28, 2017
At Large Farewell and Thanks! This is (almost) my last column. It marks forty years of deadlines, thirty-six in national By Scott Burns / January 29, 2017
Better Spending Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Be-Careful-What-You-Wish-For-Economy In an ideal world, everyone would save money so they could take care of their By Scott Burns / January 15, 2017
Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security Lower Wage Workers Also Likely To Lose in Social Security Reform I have some advice for our new Republican leadership: Remember Dan Rostenkowski. He was the By Scott Burns / January 8, 2017
At Large Social Security Social Security Reform: If You’re Under 50, Watch Out You’re eager to buy your favorite candy bar. You go in the store. You pay By Scott Burns / January 1, 2017
At Large Income & Wealth Enlarging the Cup of Life What would we do if we truly loved and cared for others? That seems a By Scott Burns / December 25, 2016
Couch Potato Investing The Lessons of Couch Potato Investing Please give a nod of thanks to Aye M. Soe and Ryan Poirier. These two, both By Scott Burns / November 27, 2016