Sitemap - 2024 - Economics Matters by Laurence Kotlikoff

Liz Weston, the Internet's Most Read Personal Finance Columnist Joins Economics Matters -- the Podcast to Share Her Career-Long Trove of Critical Financial Secrets and Advice

The Financial Riddler 10-19-24

Commissioner O'Malley -- You Can Rescue the Retirements of Tens of Millions. Just Rewrite Social Security's Dec COLA Letter, Truthfully, as Described Here.

Larry and Jay Abolofia Demo MaxiFi's Roth Conversion Optimizer with Its Remarkable Ability to Lower Your Lifetime Taxes and Its Surprising Go Big or Go Home Message

Optimal Roth Conversions -- Go Big or Go Home!

Larry Talks National and Personal Economics Post Election

Pick Your Money Manager Carefully!

"Factories Aren't the Future" -- Economics Matters Presents the Superb Macroeconomist, Northwestern's Martin Eichenbaum, to Discuss American's Current and Prospective Dangerous Tariff Policy

How to Postpone Social Security's Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions

It's Scary Open Enrollment Season! Beware these Ten Medicare Traps and Gotchas

George Kinder Is Back to Discuss His Marvelous New Book, The Three Domains of Freedom

Drowning In Student Loans? Consider Refinancing with Uncle Steve, Not Uncle Sam

The Financial Riddler -- 10/20/24

"On the Economy, the Presidential Candidates Need to Go Big or Go Home"

Medicare Open Enrollment Is Here, and Phil Moeller is Back to Discuss his New Book: Get What's Yours for Medicare: Revised and Updated

Today's Nobel Prize in Economics

I Asked Google's AI Five Key Social Security Questions. It Returned Five Horribly Wrong Answers.

Famed Washington Post Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Eduardo Porter, Joins Economics Matters - the Podcast!

The Financial Riddler 10-6-24

Anne Krueger, One of the World's Most Accomplished Development and Macro Economists, Discusses Her Pathbreaking and Breathtaking Career and Opines On the Course of Global Economic Power

Am Yisrael Chai

2024 Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Daron Acemoglu, Discusses Automation, the Secret to Development, AI, the Origins of Conflict, Networks, and the Sustainability of Democracy

Tariff is a Stupid, Not "a Beautiful Word"

Do We Really Need an Economist in the White House?

Israel's Extraordinary Economist and Public Intellectual, Eytan Sheshinski, Provides a Must-Hear/See Update on the Gaza-Plus Conflict and Far More

The Financial Riddler 9/18/24

Kevin Esler is Back with an Improved Version of TIPSLADDER.com

The Financial Riddler -- 9/09/24

Dave Ramsey. I Love Your 7 Steps, but Not Your Social Security Advice.

Live from Ukraine! An Update on the War with Andrew Fesiak

It's Time for American Troops on the Ground in Gaza

How Much Life Insurance Do I Really Need? Easy Answers to this Critical Question

Ten Novel Policy "Commandments" from Adam Garfinkle

107 Shades of Crazy

Joe Klein and John Ellis Handicap the Election, the Middle East, China, and Ukraine in a Penetrating and Riveting Economics Matters -- the Podcast

Locking Low-Wage Americans Into Poverty

The Financial Riddler -- 8-16-24

Steve Brown, John Hancock's Legendary CEO, Reveals the Secrets of his Amazing Success

Fidelity's Retirement Planner Versus MaxiFi Planner

Harris Needs New Ideas -- Here Are Ten

The Country's Looking for New Solutions, Not Racism, Sexism, or Meaningless Platitudes

Measuring and Managing Climate Risk from the World's Premier Catastrophe Modeler -- Karen Clark

The Financial Riddler -- 7/22/24

Learn to Build a TIPS Ladder with Kevin Esler -- the Creator of the Outstanding, Free Tool -- TIPSLADDER.COM

Biden Must Step Aside -- This Week!

The Financial Riddler 7-14-24

Assassination is the Antithesis of Democracy

Joe Biden for Secretary of State

The Devils Will Get No Rest -- James Conroy Talks About His New Book on the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca Conference that Produced the Short- and Long-Term Blueprints for Allied Victory Over Hitler

David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States, Talks Financial Insolvency, Policy Solutions, and Politics

Biden Channels Trump

Jeff Friedman, Dartmouth's Brilliant Political Scientist, Tell Us Why Presidential Machismo Wins Elections

The Financial Riddler 6/30/24

Does the Supreme Court's Chevron Decision Open Social Security Up to Millions of Lawsuits?

MaxiFi's Full Risk Investing Lets You See the Good, Bad, and Ugly from Risky Investing

When You're Ripe, It's Time for You to Go.

Paul Solman -- The Beginning of the End of Tribalism?

The Financial Riddler 6-20-24

Finding the Holy Grail for Investors -- MaxiFi Planner's Upside Investing

Let Greed, Not Fear Motivate Your Financial Planning

Can AI-Driven Economic Models Help Improve Financial Decisions -- Insights from Jonathan Parker, Head of the Finance Department at MIT's Sloan School of Management

Rescuing Your Retirement with Larry

The Financial Riddler 6-15-24

What Biden Must Do To Win

Do People Act Like Human Beings? Insights from the Brilliant Career of Behavioral Economist, Ernst Fehr

Inflation, Interest Rates, Fed Policy, and the Evolution of Economics Science: Insights from Harvard's Fabulous Economist, Benjamin Friedman

Here's the Crime!

The Financial Riddler 6-2-24

Navigating Investment Strategies in a Volatile World with Fred Lane

Are Economists Smarter? An Update

Financial Literacy for All Ages: Nancy Lloyd's Advice on Budgeting and Retirement Planning

America’s Big Economic Picture(s)

Inside the Innovation of Mask Zero with Entrepreneur Adam Pener

The Financial Riddler 5-15-24

Do Financial Planners Plan with the Tools they Use on their Clients?

Glenn Loury Discusses his Sensational and Shockingly Frank Autobiography - Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Retirement Readiness: Mary Beth Franklin on Social Security Benefits & Planning

Peace in Our Time

Social Security on the Brink: Debating Solutions with Arun Muralidhar and Kathleen Townsend

The Financial Riddler 5-1-24

Can AI Improve Your Finances?

Serving Up Success: Economic Strategies for Restaurateurs with Sophie Cranin

Jerry Bergosh on the real Gold Rush: Investments Beyond Bitcoin

When House Rich Is House Poor

Why Today's Housing Market Is Crazy

The Financial Riddler 4-18-24

Legacy Admissions and Upward Mobility: Insights with John Friedman

Social Security Sues Down Syndrome Child for $85K, Cuts Off Healthcare & Benefits

Kerry Pechter Talks Annuities and New DOL Regulations Concerning their Marketing

The Economics of Filmmaking with Screen Writer, Director, and Producer -- Harris Goldberg

The Financial Riddler 3-26-24

Dear Social Security Commissioner, Martin O'Malley

Larry's Economic Commentary --- How Economists Started and Can Stop their Climate War

Social Security's Martin O'Malley to the Rescue! He's Promising to End the Agency's "Cruel-Hearted and Mindless" Clawbacks!

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, David Cay Johnston, Returns to Economics Matters to Discuss Trump's Destiny -- Next President or Jailbird?

The Financial Riddler 3-14-24

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Famed Elder Care Attorney, Harry Margolis, Discusses Elder Care and Extended Family Finances

Social Security Claws Backs $34K from a Disabled Blind Worker for Undocumented "Overpayments" Going Back 23 Years!

Making a Million Dollars for My Friend in an Hour

Two Top Experts -- Frank Napolitano and Katie Von Kohorn -- Talk Estate Planning, Gift Planning, Trusts, and Federal and State Estate Tax Avoidance

A Vote for Trump is a Vote for Putin

Peter Coy -- the NY Times Top Economics Analyst Talks Economics Matters

Sociology Meets Economics -- Join Economics Matters for a Fascinating Conversation with Economist Robert Akerlof

The Financial Riddler 2-18-24

Former Chilean President Piñera

Economist Jonathan Treussard Examines the Investment Risk/Return Frontier in 2024

Robert Pinsky talks About Words, Language, Money, Poetry, Antisemitism, and Friendship in a fascinating episode of Economics Matters -- the Podcast

Nominating Myself for President

Catching Up on Infrastructure with Our Country's Top Expert -- Brookings Economist Clifford Winston

Howard Tullman, One of our Nation's Leading Entrepreneurs, Political/Economic Commentators, Art Collectors, and Actual Effective Altruists

The Financial Riddler 1-16-24

Bill Ackman Endorses Dean Phillips

Nikki Haley -- Three Sentences to Beat Trump

Talking Chile and Argentina with Felipe Larraín -- Two-Time Former Finance Minister of Chile

A Conversation with Stanford University's Brilliant Michael Boskin -- One of Our Most Influential Economists Ever --About His Scary New Book on U.S. Defense Policy

Dumb Struck

The Financial Riddler 1-1-24