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Sep 08

Medicare, the Biggest Threat to Our Retirement Standard of Living

By Scott Burns and Laurence J. Kotlikoff A recent column predicted that seniors would get the largest Social Security benefit increase in 25 years next January--- about 6 percent. It quickly drew fire from older readers. The 6 percent increase, they pointed out, was before the deduction of the hefty...

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Aug 08

Meet the Diabolical Tax, the Alternative Minimum Tax for the Retired

By Scott Burns Q. What triggers taxation of Social Security benefits and what does not? Can the tax be avoided? ---L.M, by email A. The only proven way to avoid the tax is to have little or no income beyond Social Security benefits. I call this the Diabolical Tax. It affected very few people in 1983...

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Jul 08

The Rush for Safety Has Reduced Yields

By Scott Burns Q. Would you give us retirees your view as to the safest place for our hard-earned savings while we are having bank failures? ---H.V., by email (one of many asking the same question) A. For most people, the $100,000 FDIC insurance limit essentially eliminates any risk of loss. Those who...

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Jun 08

Death, Taxes and Required Minimum Distributions

By Scott Burns Q. When I started taking required minimum distributions from my IRAs, I used a withdrawal formula based on dividing the value of my IRA by 27.4. I understood that this value would have to be withdrawn annually until the IRA was depleted. Of course the RMD is taxed at my current tax rate...

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May 08

Another Reason Oil Prices Are Soaring

By Scott Burns Lots of explanations are offered for the soaring prices of oil and commodities. You can choose from: (a) the terrorism premium, (b) speculators, (c) peak oil theory, (d) shrinking net exports from oil-producing nations; (e) rising demand from emerging market economies or (f) any combination...

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May 08

The Truth about Income Taxes

By Scott Burns Taxes are unpleasant and unfair. We all know this. And our friends in government work hard to keep it that way. The only thing about taxes that all Americans can agree on is that someone else should pay them. Perhaps we can learn something by examining how much we pay in taxes, who pays...

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Mar 08

Ending Insider Rating and the Credit Crisis

By Scott Burns and Laurence J. Kotlikoff "... let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural...

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Nov 07

Magic in Finance, Part 4: Government, The Big Magician

by Scott Burns When it comes to financial magic, the government of the United States takes the prize. Sleights of hand and clever distractions by purveyors of line-of-credit mortgages, living-benefit variable annuities and equity-indexed life insurance that I have illustrated in recent weeks are clumsy...

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Jun 07

The Darkest Horse

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The road to Saint Anselm College is marked with long Burma Shave strands of political placards. The name I see most is Biden. But all the Democratic Party candidates for president will be there. A two-hour debate between candidates starts within an hour. As I approach the campus I...

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May 07

Who Will Get Your Employer's 401(K) Contributions?

Today's Rude Opinion Poll: Which description best characterizes our elected representatives in Washington, regardless of party affiliation? They are hapless boobs, constantly passing laws that contradict each other. They are scheming miscreants, relentlessly seeking new ways to increase taxes and spend...

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