Income & Wealth Taxes If You Want To Rebuild America, Start With the Tax Code Houston. He’s lanky, white-haired and calm. Listen to him for a few minutes and you By Scott Burns / September 23, 2012
Better Spending Will the Real Federal Deficit Please Stand Up? “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” *** The latest estimate of the By Scott Burns / September 16, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth The New Wealth Scoreboard OK, alpha dogs, want to know where you stand in the wealth heap? Welcome to By Scott Burns / August 26, 2012
Retirement Social Security Taxes The Little Middle Class Tax That Keeps On Rising Both parties talk about “helping” the middle class. But will they actually do it? Don’t By Scott Burns / August 19, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Honey, I Hocked the Car! I have a confession to make. I hocked my car. Yes, your stalwart, ever prudent, By Scott Burns / August 5, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth How Much Is A Future Year Worth? There are two kinds of people in this world. Spenders. And Savers. There is no By Scott Burns / July 22, 2012
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Lower Ninety Raw numbers can be striking. While Occupy Wall Street has focused on the 1 percent By Scott Burns / June 17, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth What Las Vegas Can Teach Us About Mutual Fund Investing When you go to Las Vegas one of the important things to know is what By Scott Burns / June 10, 2012
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Forty-Year Train Wreck The cover of the 2011 annual report for Amtrak, our government-owned passenger train service, celebrates By Scott Burns / May 27, 2012
Couch Potato Investing There Is Nothing Quite Like the Assurance of Failure Should any of us own a managed bond mutual fund? Should any of us everown By Scott Burns / May 20, 2012
Retirement Social Security Taxes For the Real Condition of Social Security & Medicare, Turn to Appendix F Can you spell i-c-e-b-e-r-g? Well, we’ve hit one and our ship is taking on water. By Scott Burns / May 6, 2012