Apr 19 Just 10 days left to meet Social Security’s April 29 deadline By Laurence Kotlikoff If your optimal Social Security lifetime benefit maximization strategy requires you to file for retirement benefits and immediately suspend them, make sure you do so by April 29. Continue reading
Apr 14 Column: What’s the real deadline for the file and suspend strategy? By Laurence Kotlikoff Is the April 29 deadline hard and true?… Continue reading
Apr 12 How the new upper class perpetuates its status into the next generation By Charles Murray Charles Murray continues his exploration of the data from the bubble quiz. Continue reading
Apr 08 How have Chicken Little’s investments fared in this rough year for stocks? By Terry Burnham Terry Burnham is the “Chicken Little” of finance because of his repeated calls that the Dow will plummet. So how does Burnham invest his own money?… Continue reading
Apr 07 Did you grow up in a bubble? These ZIP codes suggest you did By Charles Murray If you want your child to grow up clueless about mainstream white America, what are the ZIP codes that have the best track record?… Continue reading
Apr 04 What does your bubble quiz score say about you? By Charles Murray What is the relationship between scores on the bubble quiz and the socioeconomic status of the ZIP codes where people live?… Continue reading
Mar 18 We’re talking about inequality all wrong By Laurence Kotlikoff, Alan Auerbach The right measure is not how much wealth or income people have or receive, but their spending power after the government has levied taxes on those resources and supplemented those resources with welfare and other benefits. Continue reading
Mar 17 Column: What Ayn Rand got wrong about human nature By Denise Cummins The annals of history show that even if one is talented enough to create enormous wealth, monopolizing that wealth for oneself is a dangerous course of action. Continue reading
Mar 15 Social Security’s divorced widow abuse — an isolated case? By Laurence Kotlikoff It's important for anyone dealing with Social Security to know exactly what they are due and to tell, not ask Social Security to give them what's theirs, writes economist Larry Kotlikoff. Continue reading
Mar 08 Column: Trump’s outrage over outsourcing doesn’t apply to his own merchandise By Robert Lawrence How do you explain the utter contempt Trump has expressed on the campaign trail about others who outsource, while he is doing the exact same thing?… Continue reading