The Bank of America, my small company’s bank of 27 years, is now being sued by small businesses for shutting us out of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loan and serving large businesses first, on...

Most independents are looking for more than someone on the left with a running mate who is even further to the left.

Guessers of the unguessable are right half the time. Larry Summers was lucky to predict inflation based on an argument about stimulus raising prices that's unsupported by the facts. Now he's using...

Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life

With easy-to-use tests, everyone can check themselves every day.

The United States is broke and an intergenerational Ponzi scheme has taken the place of rational economic planning, a leading American economist says.

Diagnosing those who have the disease can help the infected and protect healthcare workers, but it’s a strategy for treating the sick, not saving the healthy. Real-time detection is the product of...

Drs. Fauci and Birx, you are working tirelessly and heroically to fight Coronavirus. I and hundreds of millions of other Americans thank you for your efforts. If the President drags his feet on this...

Far worse, neither the president nor the FDA appear to understand the fundamental purpose of Covid testing. The fundamental purpose of Covid testing is to isolate the infected and thereby contain and...

Harvard-trained economist Laurence Kotlikoff, disturbed by Donald Trump’s rise and frustrated by U.S. economic policy, is running for president himself.

Sanders and Warren should abandon their “My way or the highway” approach to enacting MFA and signal that they’re open to considering Medicare Advantage for All.

The bottom line is we need a lot more revenue, especially from the filthy, irresponsible rich.

The officials, many of them from the George W. Bush administration, signed a letter declaring that Mr. Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history.”

Kotlikoff tells ThinkAdvisor about six ways the SSA has misled people, intentionally or not, into costly mistakes.

To prevent that we need to test the “healthy” as well as those with symptoms.

As House Democrats prepare their agenda for the next two years, dealing with America’s massive fiscal gap should be at the top of their list.

I was hoping the Republicans would cure our ailing health care system. But Trumpcare, as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office made clear,...

Over the years, economics has entertained many schools of thought, including mercantilism, Schumpeterian, Marxism, Keynesian economics, monetarism, and rational economics. None was perfect. But none...

An economist says that retirees should tilt toward stocks as they age.

Trump is attacking our allies, appeasing our enemies and threatening our democracy. But the area where he's wrecking the surest damage is our economy. His self declared trade war is going big time....

We need a governmental body that can mobilize university research institutions to address health crises.

If we keep using the wrong inequality and progressivity measures, we’ll never choose a tax system that’s actually fair.

COVID-19 may someday be called The Red Death if blue states toughen up on masking while red states pretend it’s unnecessary.

It's not bad enough that Comcast and other cable companies are monopolies, jack up their prices without notice, and charge different people differently, and have co-opted the FCC. They also disconn...

Dear President-elect Trump, Your economic advisors apparently haven't told you this, but the U.S. has a fiscal gap of $206 trillion. This is the true measure of the country's indebtedness. It is the...

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A new analysis finds that more than 90% of people should wait until age 70 to start drawing benefits.

Basic health insurance coverage for all what the country wants and what the politicians have yet to deliver. Medicare Part C For All is the bipartisan answer. It entails enrolling the entire popula...

The bill will reduce the lifetime benefits of millions of Americans by tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In Germany, you aren’t forced to choose between plan A, which covers your liver, but not your kidney, and plan B, which does the opposite. Every plan has to cover everything.

Social Security may not be able to pay full benefits after a certain date if Congress doesn't act sooner. Here's how to gauge how much in benefits you may lose.

A Social Security staffer mistakenly entered that Delores' husband died a year earlier than he did. She got a notice from Social Security that her husband was overpaid by $22,533 and that she now...

Not only do COLAs have little muscle but retirees find more of their benefits subject to tax, the economist tells ThinkAdvisor.

Professor of economics at Boston University Laurence Kotlikoff shares an economics approach to financial planning. Laurence Kotlikoff explains why economics matter, and how they can be applied to...

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 model.

Home testing and ‘digital passports’ could stop outbreaks.

Democrats and Republicans spin Trump’s tax overhaul 01:03Why does Paul Krugman think the bill is regressive? 08:54Larry gives the bill a final grade of B- ...

Game theory can help us handle North Korea. The situation is extremely dangerous, but we are playing a losing game -- appeasement. Setting a no further missile development or testing red line for Kim...

The current version of the Republican tax bill is worth passing. That said, it's good, but not great. But if it's amended to include eliminating the Individual mandate, which will leave perhaps 10...

Dear President-elect Trump, Your economic advisors apparently haven't told you this, but the U.S. has a fiscal gap of $206 trillion. This is the true measure of the country's indebtedness. It is the...

The size of the overall U.S. fiscal gap is unknown to Americans because neither political party wants to officially calculate it.

‎Show Simplify Your Retirement, Ep S4: Episode 1 – Money Magic With Laurence Kotlikoff – Part 1 - Jan 3, 2022

An economics professor from Boston University says that a new report on Social Security and Medicare is hiding the truth.

Dear President-Elect Trump, This morning's press indicated you are going to proceed with labeling China a currency manipulator. I think this would be a huge mistake based on the facts. Let me address...