Laurence Kotlikoff

Should I rent or own? | Investing

If you’re going to invest in real estate, it surely makes more sense to invest in REITS — real estate investment trusts.

Social Security report buries crucial statistic

Fortunately, conventional banking is not the only game in town. One-hundred-percent equity-financed mutual-fund banking with full disclosure of the mutual fund’s assets provides an alternative...

An example of a scam by Social Security

The SSA isn’t, in the cases I’ve directly heard about, telling people that the values of their own and their family members’ lifetime benefits will...

America’s fiscal sword of Damocles

The fiscal gap is the present value difference between all projected future government spending obligations (including official debt service) and all projected future tax revenues.