Health Mar 14 This insurance company wants to analyze your saliva to predict when you’ll die By Rebecca Robbins, STAT
Health Jun 10 Here’s how smoking marijuana might affect your life insurance If you smoke marijuana and you’re shopping for life insurance, chances are you can find a company that won’t penalize you for your habit, but you may have to weed out several insurers to find the best policy. By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News
Nation Dec 29 Are more FICA taxes worth it? Social Security as longevity insurance Social Security benefits are inflation indexed and continue until you die. There is nothing like them that you can buy on the insurance market, says Larry Kotlikoff. That's why paying more FICA taxes, often by working longer, may pay off… By Laurence Kotlikoff
Nation Oct 06 You have your Social Security strategy all wrong Larry Kotlikoff explains that remarried retirees cannot collect spousal benefits from an ex-wife or ex-husband, and steers a couple away from a Social Security strategy that wouldn't have worked for them. By Laurence Kotlikoff
Jun 12 Watch Betting on Death: Creepy or Not? Paul Solman talks to Michael Sandel about the morality of betting on when people will die.
May 22 Watch Experts Calculate Billions in Long-term Costs of War Congress has approved about $450 billion to date for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but economists also have been tabulating the long-term costs such as veterans' care. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores the broader costs of the war. Continue watching