Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits.
Ask Larry: Is My Mom’s Widow’s Benefit Rate Correct?
read more
John C. Goodman
An example of a scam by Social Security
Jim Cornfeld, a certified financial planner in St. Louis who manages a wealth-adviser network that uses my company’s Social Security software, sent me the following email. Let me share my answer.
Should Everyone Be Able To Join Medicaid? Why Not?
From the earliest days of Obamacare, a great many Democrats and others on the left have wanted a “public option.”
How Republicans Think About Health Care: Three Parallel Universes
Here is the one public policy question I am asked more than all others put together: What’s wrong with the Republicans? Today I will give the answer.
How you can calculate the impact of retirement
We all have to decide when to call it quits. But it’s a very tricky decision. So let me give you a way to make it easy, via the following illustration.
Will ‘Boycott America’ Follow Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal?
President Trump’s decision to withdrawal from the Paris Accord is not just a terrible decision for the planet and our children. It could quickly lead to a worldwide boycott of Americans goods and services as well as travel to the U.S.
Gorman: We can cover those with pre-existing conditions without Obamacare
There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing conditions. Real world experience shows that some work better than others. Properly structured stand-alone high risk pools and medically underwritten individual health policies guaranteed coverage for more than a decade before ObamaCare.
Are Robots Eating Our Lunch?
I was leaving my dry cleaner’s when I saw her — our local meter maid writing a parking ticket. She smiled. I grimaced. Had she hit my car too? I instinctively drew my cellphone and checked my Park Boston app. Relief. My car was good for another half-hour.
Kotlikoff: The Robots are Coming
How long will it be before a robot takes your job? And after that happens, who will be around to buy the goods and services the robots produce? Here’s a scary thought; the robot revolution may not make us better off.
America’s Fiscal Sword of Damocles
“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.”