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From the World-Renowned Economist Behind MaxiFi
Learn more about personal finance, retirement, Social Security, and the economic systems that your long-term goals rely on with these best-sellers from economist and MaxiFi founder, Laurence Kotlikoff.
Featured Book
Money Magic:
An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk,and a Better Life
In Money Magic, Laurence Kotlikoff — economist, finance expert, MaxiFi founder, and New York Times bestselling author of Get What’s Yours: The Secret to Maxing Out Your Social Security — breaks down the secret tricks you need to transform your financial future.
By ditching the usual Wall Street jargon and one-size-fits-all approach, Kotlikoff offers readers a clear path to a richer, happier, and safer financial life. Investing in your education, career, marriage, lifestyle, or home? Planning for your retirement? Making Social Security decisions?
Whatever your priority, Kotlikoff’s approach uses economics and advanced computational modelling to help you reach your goals.
You’ll learn:
- How to choose a career that maximizes your lifetime earnings.
- How to get a superior education without the debt.
- Why cashing out your IRA to pay off your mortgage could deliver long-term gains.
- Why delaying retirement can reduce your tax and increase your savings.
Most importantly, Money Magic doesn’t just tell you what to do. Instead, it gives you the tools and knowledge you need to transform your financial thinking. Get ready to harness the economics-based approach to financial planning and manage your lifetime finances with care, confidence, and control.
With Kotlikoff’s characteristic heart, wit, and insight, this book combines the best of economic thought with the care and humanity that your financial future deserves.
Praise for Money Magic
Robert C Merton
Armstrong Financial Strategies, Cheshire, CT
George Akerlof
Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001 and co-author of Phishing for Phools
Scott Burns
Personal finance columnist
Jane Bryant Quinn
Author of How to Make Your Money Last
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Forbes
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The Washington Post
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Featured Book
The New York Times Bestseller: Get What’s Yours!
Get the new updated version today, with revisions reflecting new Social Security law changes as of 2016.
Get What’s Yours is the definitive book on how to navigate the maze of Social Security and emerge with the best possible outcome for your financial future. At once an engaging manual of tactics and strategies and a comprehensive financial commentary, this is an unmatched resource for readers at every stage of their lifetime financial planning.
Yes, you could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of books and articles trying to explain them), or you can turn to the experience of world-renowned economist Laurence Kotlikoff, bestselling writer Philip Moeller, and economics broadcaster Paul Solman. In Get What’s Yours, the trio explain the Social Security system comprehensively and comprehensibly, showing how you avoid missing out on tens of thousands of dollars with a few simple steps.
In the new, updated version, you’ll also find your guide to the changes to Social Security that take effect in 2016, including:
- Why it’s more important than ever to wait longer (until age 70, if possible) to claim.
- The implications for divorced spousal benefits that most don’t even know about.
- How Medicare rules should shape your Social Security decisions.
Through strategies to get started and stirring stories, Get What’s Yours includes specific advice that can benefit you if you are:
- A married or retired couple
- Divorced
- A widow or widower
- A retired parent of dependent children
- Disabled
- An eligible beneficiary who continues to work
By addressing the tax consequences of your choices, as well as the financial implications for other investments, this book leaves no stone unturned. Many personal-finance books briefly address Social Security, but none offers the full, authoritative, yet conversational analysis of Get What’s Yours.
If you or a family member are one of the more than 52 million Americans aged 54 to 69, ten thousand of whom reach Social Security’s full retirement age of 66 every day, Get What’s Yours is an invaluable, and indispensable, tool.
What Readers Are Saying about ‘Get What Yours’
“Getting smart about Social Security can put tens of thousands of extra dollars in your pocket. With that in mind, start by reading, Get What’s Yours. . . . The book translates—into often-entertaining English—the many convoluted rules that make up the Social Security program. . . . [Does] a great job of helping you make sense of, and get the most from, Social Security. . . . Invaluable.”
Glenn Ruffenach
The Wall Street Journal
“This practical guide to navigating the Social Security system cuts through the fat (there are more than 2,500 rules associated with the benefit) and covers everything from how to file for social security to the strategies for claiming the highest possible income. . . . Useful for anyone approaching retirement.”
Concepción de León
The New York Times
“An indispensable and surprisingly entertaining guide for anyone who is retiring or thinking of retiring with all of the Social Security benefits they’ve earned.”
Jane Pauley
“I love this book! Seriously! Who could ever guess that reading about Social Security could be this entertaining? And if you think you know enough about the subject, you would be wise to think again. Smartly written by an all-star, financial expert dream team, the engaging, down-to-earth prose makes Get What’s Yours the definitive guide to maximizing what is, for many, the most important retirement asset by far. From determining the best age to claim (hint: it’s not what you’ve been told) to figuring out the intricacies of spousal benefits to avoiding the ‘gotchas’ that can reduce your checks, this must-read guide is truly that. And don’t be surprised if you actually enjoy it!"
Beth Kobliner
Author of Get a Financial Life
“Choosing when to take Social Security is one of the biggest decisions of your life. By doing it right, you can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to your lifetime income and leave more money for your spouse as well. This great book tells you how . . . and it’s funny, too!”
Jane Bryant Quinn
Author of Making the Most of your Money NOW
Other Titles by Laurence Kotlikoff
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Generational Accounting: Knowing Who Pays, and When, for What We Spend
Analysis of how the government’s budget deficit is the cornerstone of conventional economic policy and argues that it is a number devoid of economic content.
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Spend 'Til the End
Revolutionary guide to financial planning that focuses on maintaining a smooth living standard throughout your life.
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The Clash of Generations
Examines how current economic policies are creating a generational conflict and offers solutions to ensure fiscal sustainability.
About the Author
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, president of Economic Security Planning, Inc., and director of the Fiscal Analysis Center.
A New York Times bestselling author, he has written nineteen books and hundreds of professional articles and op-eds. He is a frequent television and radio guest. His columns have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Forbes, Yahoo.com, Fortune, and other major publications. In 2014, The Economist named him one of the world's 25 most influential economists.