Scott Burns
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Mortgages, retirees make poor combinationJul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. My parents are looking for a house in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. They are retired. They are trying to decide if they should pay cash for the house. They have close t...
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Is it time to junk the SUV?Jul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - I have a confession to make. Do you remember the parsimonious Prius I've written about, the one that gets 45 mpg? Well, it isn't the only car in the Burns family. Our o...
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Steps for getting a guaranteed lifetime incomeJul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am 73 and have investigated buying back the Social Security benefits I took at age 62. The buyback number is $158,529. My current monthly benefit is $1,231. A total...
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Invest for your future, not for the financial services industryJul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Securities attorney and investment adviser Daniel R. Solin has saved our bacon once again, just as he did at this time last year. That's when he offered a short book on ...
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In struggling economy, reinvention continually trumps lossJul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Maine - It's hard to believe, sitting here at a cottage window, that the world is having its daily crisis, that billions are being lost, that oil prices are yet...
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Reinvention trumps loss in picturesque Maine townJul 02, 2008 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Maine -It's hard to believe, sitting here at a cottage window, that the world is having its daily crisis, that billions are being lost, that oil prices are yet ...
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Three easy levers on retirement spendingJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Allow me to introduce the Power of Non-Financial Thinking. This is the kind of thinking that actual people can do. It involves none of the magical thinking preferred by ...
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Couple decide downsizing is their best betJun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Downsizing may be the best retirement decision millions of boomers can make. It's relatively easy to do. And, as you'll soon see, the lifetime benefits can be enormous. ...
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Fixed income an essential part of retirement portfolioJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I have around $1.2 million, mostly in equities. My house is paid for. There will be around $300,000 in company profit-sharing when I retire, and that has been my ace ...
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Medicare premiums and your retirement standard of livingJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Medicare premiums may soon start crushing retiree spending power. I estimate that many a long-lived couple may need to reduce their retirement spending on non-medical c...