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Economics-Based Versus Conventional Financial Planning
Seeking Alpha
2018-04-16
Money Magic - Finding Alpha On The Sidewalk
Seeking Alpha
2018-04-12
Social Security Is Shortchanging Widows and Widowers
Next Avenue
2018-03-06
Is Unilaterally Declaring International Economic War an Impeachable Offense?
Forbes
2018-03-04
How a Centrist Billionaire Can Win the Presidency in 2020
Forbes
2018-02-19
The U.S. Is Dead Broke and the Tax Bill Makes Matters Worse
The Hill
2017-12-22
Sen. Johnson's Trying to Save GOP from 'Winner's Curse' on Tax Reform
The Hill
2017-11-30
Let's Fix Taxes Based On Senator Johnson's Far Better Plan
Forbes
2017-11-16
The GOP Is Turning Its Tax Bill Into An Abomination By Eliminating The Individual Mandate
Forbes
2017-11-15
House, Senate Bills Beat Current Tax Policy, But Are Far From Perfect
The Hill
2017-11-10
Tax Reform Passes the Fairness Test
The Wall Street Journal
2017-11-09
Where Critics of the Tax Reform Go Wrong
The Wall Street Journal
2017-10-17
Lawrence Summers' Hatchet Jobs On Tax Reform And Kevin Hassett
Forbes
2017-10-12-23
The Surprisingly Good "Republican" Tax Plan
Forbes
2017-09-27
Has Equifax Jeopardized Your and 143 Million Other Americans' Social Security Benefits?
Forbes
2017-09-10
Trump’s Secret Service Spending Spree Might Be Illegal
Fortune
2017-08-24
Using Game Theory To Handle North Korea
Forbes
2017-08-11
Should I Rent Or Own?
The Seattle Times
2017-08-05
On Health Care, Let's Ask Germany
The Seattle Times
2017-07-30
Social Security Report Buries Crucial Statistic
The Seattle Times
2017-07-22
Let's Limit the Banks
Uexpress
2017-07-16
Economic Malaise and His Impotency
Forbes
2017-07-04
Money Magic Tricks To Help Retirees
The Seattle Times
2017-07-01
Senator Johnson's Excellent Improvement To The Republican Tax Plan
Forbes
2017-06-29
A Reverse Mortgage Sounds Great, But There Are Risks
The Seattle Times
2017-06-17
An Example of a Scam By Social Security
The Seattle Times
2017-06-10
How Can You Calculate The Impact Of Retirement?
The Seattle Times
2017-06-03
Will "Boycott America" Follow Trump's Paris Accord Withdrawal?
Forbes
2017-06-01
How To Keep Divorce From Wrecking Your Finances?
Next Avenue
2017-05-31
Are Robots Eating Our Lunch?
The Austin American Statesman
2017-05-27
America's Fiscal Sword of Damocles
The Austin American Statesman
2017-05-20
The Risks And Rewards of Annuities
The Austin American Statesman
2017-05-12
On Tax Reform, Ryan Knows Better
The Wall Street Journal
2017-05-11
Which Should You Take First, Social Security Or Your 401(k)?
The Dallas Morning News
2017-05-07
House GOP Tax Plan Really Is A 'Better Way'
Seattle Times
2017-04-30
How the NY Times #FakeEconomics Helped Destroy an Excellent Tax Reform
Forbes
2017-04-26
A Tough Look at Fidelity’s Social Security IQ Quiz
Next Avenue
2017-04-25
From Health Care to Divorce, It’s Down to Economics
Seattle Times
2017-04-23
Take Advantage of These Tax Tips
The Seattle Times
2017-04-16
Medicare Part C For All -- A Proposed Hatch-Warren Bill
Forbes
2017-04-12
Want To Play The Stock Market? Do What The Smart Casino Players Do!
The Dallas Morning News
2017-04-07
Could Medicare Part C Be the Answer to Our Health Insurance Mess?
The Dallas Morning News
2017-04-01
Save the Planet — Boycott America! Leonardo, Robert, Elton, Paul, Angelina, ... - Make This Happen!
The Huffington Post
2017-03-29
Use Economic Research to Call A Truce In Divorce Wars
Austin American Statesman
2017-03-29
Is a Loved One Uninsured? So Are You
The Dallas Morning News
2017-03-19
Magical Tool Helps Manage Your Finances
Seattle Times
2017-03-12
With Social Security, Time and Patience Are Worth It
The Dallas News
2017-02-24
When Obamacare Costs $19,000 Before You Get the First Penny Back
The Dallas Morning News
2017-02-17
Trump's Red Line Was Just Crossed and He Blinked. The Geopolitical and Economic Fallout
Forbes
2017-02-14
Now Might Be the Time to Sell Your Stocks
The Seattle Times
2017-02-12
How the Fed Can Save the House Tax Bill
Forbes
2017-02-10
Trump's Mental Deficit On Trade Deficits
Forbes
2017-02-04
Picking Up the Torch from Scott Burns
Austin American Statesman
2017-02-04
The Latest #stupideconomics -- Peter Navarro Calls Germany a "Currency Manipulator"
Forbes
2017-02-01
Will Trump's Stupid Economics Crash Stock and Bond Markets?
Forbes
2017-01-30
Stupid Economics
Forbes
2017-01-26
With Some Tweaks, Democrats Can Love the House Tax Plan
Forbes
2017-01-11
Rethinking portfolio analysis to reduce living-standard risk
Pensions & Investments
2017-01-09
Cutting Your Social Security Benefits, Republican Style
Forbes
2016-12-15
Memo to Trump — Our Country Is Totally Broke. We Need Comprehensive/Radical, Not Half-Baked Reform.
Forbes
2016-11-25
Is Amazon’s Shipping Policy A Form Of Consumer Fraud?
Forbes
2016-11-23
‘Currency Manipulation:’ An Econ 101 Lesson For Donald Trump
Forbes
2016-11-15
My Social Security Nightmare -- Someone Hacks Our Online Social Security Work and Benefit Records
Forbes
2016-10-23
JP Morgan Chase -- the True Story of America's Most Corrupt Bank
Forbes
2016-03-18
We've Been Measuring Inequality Wrong, Here's the Real Story
The Conversation
2016-03-15
How a Sanders Medicare-For-All Plan Can Be Affordable and Appeal to Republicans
Forbes
2016-02-17
Cutting a Deal with Russia
Forbes
2016-02-17
The New York Times' Jonathan Martin Is Disguising Opinion as News
Forbes
2016-01-13
Congress is pulling the rug out from people’s retirement decisions
PBS Newshour
2015-10-31
Quit AARP For Endorsing Bipartisan Bill Cutting Millions Of Baby Boomers' Social Security Benefits
Forbes
2015-10-30
Proposed budget bill would have devastating effects
PBS Newshour
2015-10-27
Let's Make the Vatican a Bank
American Interest
2015-10-15
The Truth About Social Security's Long Term Finances
Forbes
2015-08-26
Let Older Americans Keep Working
New York Times
2015-08-17
Social Security is 80 -- Here's How to Retire It
Washington Examiner
2015-08-17
Listen Up, Candidates: Social Security is Broken
CNBC
2015-08-06
Social Security Whistleblower Claims Widows Losing Thousands Due to Agency Mistakes
PBS Newshour
2015-07-29
The Truth about Greek Debt and German Generosity
PBS Newshour
2015-07-22
Greece Is Far Less Indebted and Germany Is Far More Generous Than You Think
Forbes
2015-07-21
How Greece Can Reopen Its Banks and Retain the Euro
Forbes
2015-07-07
For the Record, I'm Happy/Eager to Help Presidential Candidates from Both Parties
Forbes
2015-06-19
Greece's and the Eurozone's Best Move
Forbes
2015-06-10
20 Reasons Why I Think Social Security is Sexist
Forbes
2015-05-22
When Will Our Justice Department Jail the Criminal Bankers?
Forbes
2015-05-20
17 Nobel Laureates and the Fiscal Gap
Forbes
2015-05-14
What's the Most Fiscally Responsible Country in the Developed World?
PBS NEWSHOUR
2015-01-15
When Banksters Buy Regulators and Prosecutors -- Read Chapter 3 at JPMadoff.com
Forbes
2014-10-21
Is Capitalism Working? -- A Discussion with Jeff Madrick and Ralph Nader
Radio Open Source
2014-10-16
Debating Thomas Piketty
The 15th World Knowledge Forum
2014-10-01
Radio Interview: SIPC
2014-09-27
Will SIPC's Brokerage Insurance Scam Help Allen Stanford Walk?
Forbes
2014-09-05
SIPC's Brokerage Insurance Scam of Allen Stanford's Victims -- Another Reason to Close Your Brokerage Account Now!
Forbes
2014-08-19
Check Out JPMadoff.com: The True Horror Series Starring Fraud Street and You!
Forbes
2014-08-13
Social Security and Viagra: A Case of Accidental Death and Widows Benefits
PBS NEWSHOUR
2014-08-11
Reply to Brad Delong: On the Fiscal Gap and Civil Discourse
Forbes
2014-08-05
Reply to Krugman on the Fiscal Gap and Respectful Discourse
Forbes
2014-08-03
Paul Krugman: Stop Calling People Names
Forbes
2014-08-01
America’s Hidden Credit Card Bill
New York Times
2014-07-31
The Huge SIPC Risk Your Broker Isn't Disclosing
Forbes
2014-07-16
Why SIPC Brokerage Account Insurance is a Bigger Scam than Madoff
PBS Newshour
2014-06-26
Why No One Should Use Brokerage Accounts
PBS Newshour
2014-06-20
Close Your Brokerage Account!
Forbes
2014-06-18
Will The Rich Always Get Richer?
Forbes
2014-05-14
America’s Ponzi scheme: Why Social Security needs to retire
PBS Newshour
2014-04-17
Why MyRA Won’t Save Our Failing Retirement System
The Fiscal times
2014-02-23
It’s Time to Eliminate the US Corporate Income Tax
Vox
2014-01-14
Abolish the Corporate Income Tax
New York Times
2014-01-05
It’s No Bubble: Why We Should All Give Bitcoin a Chance
PBS Newshour
2013-12-04
A Tax Reform Plan that Both Parties Can Like
The Fiscal times
2013-10-20
Ending the Health Care Standoff the Right Way?
PBS Newshour
2013-10-07
Oh, and By the Way, Our Government Is Totally Broke!
Yahoo Finance
2013-10-07
Is Hyperinflation Just Around the Corner?
Yahoo Finance
2013-0927
Financial Integrity, the First Requirement for the Fed
Huffington Post
2013-08-12
Janet Yellen Has What It Takes to Lead the Fed
The Boston Globe
2013-07-28
Gay Couples Can Now Cash In On Social Security By Getting Married
Forbes
2013-06-26
Medicare By the Scary Numbers
The Wall Street Journal
2013-06-25
Why the Government Needs to Budget Over the Infinite Horizon
Yahoo
2013-06-14
The Real Problem with Reinhart-Rogoff
Yahoo
2013-05-30
Cyprus -- The Nightmare Scenario and How to Avoid It in America
PBS NEWSHOUR
2013-03-21
Krugman's Four Dangerous Fiscal Fables
Yahoo
2013-03-12
Why the Sequester Won't Solve America's Debt Problems
PBS NEWSHOUR
2013-02-28
Inside Social Security’s Obscure Incentive to Keep Americans Working
Yahoo
2013-02-04
The Treasury Has Already Minted Two Trillion Dollar Coins
Yahoo
2013-01-17
Fiscal Compromise Ignores Depth of Nation’s Economic Woes
Boston Globe
2013-01-06
Another Victory in the War on Our Children
PBS NEWSHOUR
2013-01-04
When To Take Social Security -- There's No Easy Answer
Yahoo
2013-01-02
Is The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Overshadowing The Real Economic Crisis?
WBUR Boston Public Radio
2012-12-21
Fixing Banking For Real
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
2012-12-19
The Hysterical Economy
PBS NEWSHOUR
2012-12-10
Presentation at U.S. Treasury Office of Financial Research
U.S. Treasury Office of Financial Research
2012-12-06
Financial Advice for the Challenges Facing Obama
The Boston Globe
2012-11-11
Mr. Draghi's Dangerous Confidence Game
Forbes
2012-11-10
Fiscal Child Abuse American Style
The World Financial Review
2012-10-01
Ten Nasty Social Security Gotchas to Avoid
Forbes
2012-09-20
Economists Risk Labeling as Political Hacks
Bloomberg
2012-08-21
Obama, Romney and the Fiscal Gap
The Exchange, Yahoo! Finance
2012-08-13
Thomas Jefferson Is Rolling in His Grave -- A Rant on Social Security's Complexity
Forbes
2012-08-12
Paul Ryan Pick Shows Romney Is Serious About Protecting Our Children
Forbes
2012-08-11
U.S. Is “Totally Broke”: Federal Govt.’s Fiscal Gap Is $222 Trillion: Economist
Yahoo
2012-07-31
Is Joe Paterno Burning in Hell or Coaching in Heaven?
2012-07-22
'Somebody Gave You Some Help' - Echo of JFK
Forbes
2012-07-21
When Should I Take Social Security?-- A 'Simple' Formula
Forbes
2012-07-17
What Neither Candidate Will Admit -- Social Security Is Desperately Broke
Huffington Post
2012-07-16
I'd Run Barclays For $1 Million!
Forbes
2012-07-11
Social Security Hole Overwhelms Taxes, Cuts
Bloomberg
2012-07-11
Vickers is not enough to stop another Libor Scandal (need to register to access FT Op Ed)
Financial Times
2012-07-09
Putting an End to Faith-Based Banking
Forbes
2012-07-07
42 Social Security "Secrets" All Baby Boomers and Millions of Current Recipients Need to Know
Forbes
2012-07-02
Did Justice Roberts Read My Blog?
Huffington Post
2012-06-29
We Are Our Children's Keepers
Huffington Post
2012-06-28
Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit Is a Grand Gift
Huffington Post
2012-06-19
A Proposal to End Europe’s Debt Crisis
Financial Times
2012-06-13
Krugman's Macroeconomic Rants
Huffington Post
2012-05-14
Saving Face or Saving Lives? When Will Obama Lead?
Huffington Post
2012-05-10
Making More Jobs in Our Economy -- The Secret Sauce
Huffington Post
2012-05-05
Shattering the American Dream: The US Government’s Ponzi Scheme
VoxEU
2012-05-04
President Obama's 'Peace With Honor?'
Huffington Post
2012-05-03
Under-Thirty Eyes Only
Huffington Post
2012-04-30
Tom Friedman Should Run for President
Huffington Post
2012-04-12
Time for a Serious Third Party Candidate
Huffington Post
2012-04-10
Pro Golfers Should Boycott Augusta 'National' Golf Club
Huffington Post
2012-04-09
Gail Collins' Worst Column
Huffington Post
2012-04-01
Justice Kennedy Asks Key Question Re: Obamacare(s) Mandate
Huffington Post
2012-03-29
When Billionaires Say Stupid, Dangerous Things
Huffington Post
2012-03-23
Women's Rights, Fetuses' Rights, and States' Rights
Huffington Post
2012-03-22
The Fed's No Stress Stress Test
Huffington Post
2012-03-14
Time for Congress to Authorize Use of Force Against Iran
Huffington Post
2012-02-10
The Purple Tax Plan
Huffington Post
2012-02-07
Start Saving or Get Ready for U.S. Decline
Bloomberg
2011-12-29
Save Europe by Saying No to Bank Borrowing
Bloomberg
2011-12-13
The Cure for an Uncoordinated Economy
Bloomberg
2011-11-29
Deficit Accounting Is a Generational Ponzi Scheme
The Fiscal Times
2011-11-08
Governor Rick Perry’s Generational Rip-Off
Bloomberg
2011-11-02
Nancy Pelosi and Charles Rangel Should Love 9-9-9's Huge Wealth Tax
Forbes
2011-10-27
Economists Can’t Be Trusted on Tax Plan
Bloomberg
2011-10-25
The 15-15-15 Purple Tax Plan Is Fairer Than 9-9-9
Forbes
2011-10-21
A Fair Accounting of Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan
Bloomberg
2011-10-19
A Fair Accounting of Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan
Bloomberg
2011-10-19
Euro’s Affordable Salvation, in Five Steps
Bloomberg
2011-10-11
Five Prescriptions to Heal Economy
Bloomberg
2011-09-27
A Purple Memo for the Red and Blue Super Committee
The Fiscal Times
2011-09-23
America's debt woe is worse than Greece's
CNN Opinion
2011-09-20
To Save Euro, Turn Banks Into Mutual Funds
Bloomberg
2011-09-13
U.S. Government Merits a Junk Credit Rating
Bloomberg
2011-08-16
Generational Balance, Not Budget Balance
Bloomberg
2011-08-02
A Third Party Candidate Is Coming
Bloomberg
2011-07-19
Stop the Fiscal War Against Our Children
Bloomberg
2011-06-29
Vouchercare Is the Right Name for Medicare
Bloomberg
2011-06-15
Mutual Funds Can Replace Fannie and Freddie
Bloomberg
2011-06-01
Obama, Ryan, Gingrich Muddle Health Debate
Bloomberg
2011-05-19
Make Drug Use Pay Its Own Way (with Glenn Loury)
Bloomberg
2011-05-10
Left, Right Can Love Tax Plan (with Andrew Weiss)
Bloomberg
2011-04-27
Nuclear Power Runs Amok
Bloomberg
2011-03-21
Study This To See Whether Harvard Pays Off
Bloomberg
2011-03-08
A Tax Reform to Kick-Start the Economy
Bloomberg
2010-08-30
Laurence Kotlikoff replies to Lord Turner: Part 2
Financial Times
2010-07-20
Laurence Kotlikoff replies to Lord Turner: Part 1
The Financial Times
2010-07-19
A Fair Accounting of Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan
Bloomberg
201-10-19
Does Moving For A Job Make Sense?
Forbes
2009-12-09
Should You Move In With Your Mom?
Forbes
2009-05-11
Raising Retiree Clients' Living Standards
Registered Rep Magazine
2009-05-01
Run on Banks Persistent Risk Without Limited Purpose Banking
Bloomberg
2009-04-16
Resurrect Your Retirement
Forbes
2009-04-07
Recapitalising the Banks is Not Enough
The Financial Times
2008-10-26
Economics' Approach to Financial Planning
Journal of Financial Planning
2008-09-28
Double Dipping on Social Security
Private Wealth Management Newsletter
2008-06-01
Why Target Practice Equals Financial Malpractice
Investment News
2007-06-09
The Great Pension Swindle
The Boston Globe
2006-10-22
The Time to Plan is Now
Time
2006-07-02
Are Economists Smarter?
Economists' Voice
2006-06-01
Is Conventional Financial Planning Good for Your Financial Health?
BU Working Paper
2006-01-01