Better Spending Social Security Life: How Much Will You Leave On the Table? How would you like to double your retirement spending? Well, Michael Finke is working on By Scott Burns / April 8, 2012
At Large Consumption Smoothing Income & Wealth In Retirement, Should You Eat Dessert First? Play now, die later? Most new retirees face that vexing question. They’ve got their bucket By Scott Burns / March 11, 2012
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Taxes Will the Real Tax Rate Please Stand Up? Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney have something in common beyond wealth. Both pay federal income By Scott Burns / February 19, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing CP portfolio recipes Income & Wealth A Sloth’s Slick Progress In November we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Couch Potato investing, the power of sloth By Scott Burns / February 5, 2012
Retirement The Good Life Is also a Long Life Sarasota, Florida. There are, very roughly, three kinds of elderly people in America. There are By Scott Burns / January 27, 2012
At Large Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Fearless Forecasts for 2012 Yet another year of upheaval and uncertainty bites the dust! And not a moment too By Scott Burns / December 31, 2011
Home Ownership Income & Wealth The Prisoners of PMI The father of three eased into a chair. He is in his late-thirties. He works By Scott Burns / December 11, 2011
Couch Potato Investing Couch Potato Investing Turns 20 This is a birthday celebration. Couch Potato investing is 20 years old! I introduced it By Scott Burns / November 20, 2011
At Large Income & Wealth Taxes How Much Can the 99% Squeeze Out of the 1%? Allow me to introduce some real data into a popular sound bite: the bottom 99 By Scott Burns / October 23, 2011
Better Spending Home Ownership Right-Sizing Your Home It was a lovely weekend. Years ago, my wife and I were in a B&B By Scott Burns / October 16, 2011
Couch Potato Investing Retirement Social Security How Much Are Social Security Benefits Worth? OK, look that big gift horse in the mouth. How much are Social Security benefits By Scott Burns / October 2, 2011