Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Comparing Paychecks: Workers and Retirees As far as I can tell, the goal of the AARP--- the American Association of By Scott Burns / October 18, 2009
Better Spending Home Ownership Income & Wealth The Ka-ching Epiphany “So, this must be what an intervention is like.” That’s what I thought as I By Scott Burns / October 11, 2009
Home Ownership Income & Wealth Retirement Return to Texas, part 1: A Moving Experience No, it wasn’t as difficult as the journey to Texas that Woodrow Call took with By Scott Burns / October 4, 2009
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Retirement Variable Annuity Watch, 2009 I feel a twinge when I start to write this particular column because I’m pretty By Scott Burns / September 6, 2009
Taxes My Favorite Tax Everyone smile now! It’s time to name your favorite tax. For extra credit, you can By Scott Burns / August 20, 2009
At Large Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Representation without Taxation “No taxation without representation!” That verbal tinder started the fires of our revolt against British By Scott Burns / August 7, 2009
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Retirement Social Security The Life of Riley Index, Retiree Version It requires gobs of money to be a person of independent means when you are By Scott Burns / July 5, 2009
Couch Potato Investing Life of Riley Index Reaches New Record: $3.1 Million If you want to be rich, you’ll need a lot of money. You didn’t By Scott Burns / June 21, 2009
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Inflation High Debt Means Deflation, Not Inflation AUSTIN, TEXAS. Future inflation is a given. You can’t have a government borrowing $2 trillion By Scott Burns / June 7, 2009
Couch Potato Investing CP portfolio recipes Income & Wealth The Payoff for Low Cost Index Investing Ten years ago Fidelity Magellan fund was riding high. Topping $100 billion in assets under By Scott Burns / May 24, 2009
Couch Potato Investing CP portfolio recipes Income & Wealth How to Build a Low Cost Inflation-Hedged Retirement Portfolio April was a scary month for the big dogs in the financial services industry. After By Scott Burns / May 17, 2009