Professor Kotlikoff is joined by good friend and renown economis, Ed Leamer. Ed's written five outstanding professional books and has published a slew of articles in economics' leading journals. He's also the brother of the famous author, Larry Leamer, whose podcast will follow soon! Together they discuss: The dire state of the U.S. Economy The mounting debt for Americans The displacement of jobs overseas and that effect on the American Economy. The inflated stock market much more --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠laurencekotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Books: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kotlikoff.net/books/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Company: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Author, international thought leader, and life-planning pioneer, George Kinder. George has been at the forefront of the financial services industry for more than 35 years, spearheading a movement to put the lives that clients desire to live at the center of their financial plans. Together they discuss: The philosophy of client-centered and values-driven money-management How to challenge many unexamined assumptions in economics, our approaches to democracy, and our knowledge of our own hearts. Putting purpose at the forefront of finance. Life planning vs financial planning Self awareness before personal financial decisions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠  Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠laurencekotlikoff⁠⁠⁠⁠  Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠  Books: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kotlikoff.net/books/⁠⁠⁠⁠  Company: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Best Selling Author and nationally recognized expert on personal finance, the economy, and the markets, Terry Savage. She's also co-author of their latest book, Social Security Horror Stories — Protect Yourself from the System and Avoid Clawbacks⁠. They discuss their book in which they expose how Social Security is clawing back a million Americans annually for benefits it alleges it overpaid. Plus, how it's also running a host of scams, and how you can avoid becoming its latest victim. You'll hear: How the system we all cherish has an extremely dark and dangerous side. It's been paying us benefits only to claw them back years or decades later. The clawbacks are almost all due to Social Security's mistakes. They can equal $89 or $301,000. All 77 million Social Security recipients are at risk of receiving a massive bill in the mail. So are people that are years from retirement. Both Terry and Professor Kotlikoff were recently featured on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper to expose Social Security's truly horrific financial abuse. Avoid being a victim of Social Security's Clawback by using maximizemysocialsecurity.com. It's the only means to check that the benefits you are now receiving or are told you will collect are, indeed, correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠  Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@kotlikoff⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠laurencekotlikoff⁠⁠⁠  Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠  Books: ⁠⁠⁠https://kotlikoff.net/books/⁠⁠⁠  Company: ⁠⁠⁠https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Vitor Gaspar, one of the world's most important economists. As Director of Fiscal Affairs for the IMF Vitor has enormous influence on IMF policy and, thereby, global economic progress. Listen as Professor Kotlikoff and Vitor cover lots of economic ground: U.S. deficit policy Global economic outlook Resolving the near depression in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession Getting the IMF to do proper long-term fiscal gap accounting.  Much more! Vitor's is a remarkable success story. Before joining the IMF almost a decade back, Vitor served as Portugal's Minister of State and Finance, Director General of Research at the European Central Bank, Director of Economic Studies and Statistics at Portugal's Central Bank, and Director of Economic Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook: ⁠⁠kotlikoff⁠⁠  Twitter: ⁠⁠@kotlikoff⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠laurencekotlikoff⁠⁠  Substack: ⁠⁠https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/⁠⁠  Books: ⁠⁠https://kotlikoff.net/books/⁠⁠  Company: ⁠⁠https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by long-time friend, Eugene Steuerle, one of the U.S.'s top economists and one of the nation's most respected tax experts, for an insightful conversation about our countries dire fiscal situation. His accolades and background experience are extensive: Institute Fellow and the Richard B. Fisher chair at the Urban Institute. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987-1989), the U.S. government's highest fiscal position.  President of the National Tax Association (2001–2002) Co-Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Chair of Social Security's 1999 Technical Chaired a 2015–16 National Academy of Sciences Committee study on investing in children. One of the key architects of the historic 1986 Tax Reform Act.  Author, coauthor, or co-editor of 18 books, including Dead Men Ruling, Nonprofits and Government (3rd edition), Contemporary US Tax Policy (2nd edition), and Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families. Topics Discussed: The dire fiscal situation facing the American economy. The problem of unfunded liabilities. The growing insurmountable debt held by the U.S. The short sighted solutions being implemented by government. Generational accounting and methodology. Solutions on how to fix the fiscal problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook: kotlikoff Twitter: @kotlikoff LinkedIn: laurencekotlikoff Substack: https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/ Books: https://kotlikoff.net/books/ Company: https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by one of the world's premier economists. Amy Finkelstein, PhD is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT, co-director and research associate of the Public Economics Program at the NBER, and the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America. Amy has won countless awards for her truly outstanding contributions to economics and is one of the brightest minds in the field. Together with another superb economist, Stanford's Liran Einav, Amy co-wrote a terrific book on fixing our broken healthcare system called, We've Got You Covered. Professors Kotilkoff and Finkelstein discuss her book and go deep with shocking real life cases of bad the US healthcare system is and the people that suffer. Plus, practical answers on how to fix it, and the advantages of a two level universal healthcare system. Also, a comparison to foreign healthcare systems, the best of which produce dramatically better healthcare outcomes at half the cost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook   / kotlikoff   Twitter   / kotlikoff   LinkedIn   / laurencekotlikoff   Substack https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/ Books https://kotlikoff.net/books/ Company https://maxifiplanner.com/

This episode of Economics Matters is a checkup on our staggering banking system, which is scarily similar to the run ups to the S&L crisis and the Great Financial Crisis. Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Boston University Law Professor Cornelius Hurley. He has a wealth of private and government banking regulatory experience including serving as Assistant General Counsel of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. With over 30 years of diversified legal and entrepreneurial management experience in financial services, there are few people more qualified to cry wolf about the U.S. financial situation than him. Together Professors Kotlikoff and Hurley go into detail about the multiple bank failures the U.S. has experienced in the past half year. The downgrading of U.S. debt and rising Treasury rates. Plus, the fact that on a marked-to-market basis over half of FDIC insured banks are insolvent. Unless a miracle raises their asset values above their liabilities, they are heading down the tubes. The only question is whether they will go out of business slowly or overnight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook ⁠https://www.facebook.com/Kotlikoff/⁠ Twitter ⁠https://twitter.com/kotlikoff⁠ LinkedIn ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencek...⁠ Substack ⁠https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/⁠ Books ⁠https://kotlikoff.net/books/⁠ Company ⁠https://maxifiplanner.com/

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Rabbi Bogot, Author, Educator and Scholar. He is Director of Education for the Union of Reform Judaism. He has an extraordinary career and through his teachings and writings, he is responsible for having guided the Jewish education of tens of millions of children, past and present. He is a brilliant educator, full of wit, humor, kindness, knowledge, and wisdom. In this episode you'll hear how education and economics go hand in hand and the retirement lessons from Judaism. Rabbi Bogot has written numerous books about the Jewish perspective on managing our lives humanely. This includes our economic lives. In addition to all else, he is the consummate scholar. His pedagogy combines insights from many disciplines and schools of thought, including philosophy, social work, mindfullness, psychology, comparative religion, Jewish studies, and much more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff and moderated by Alex Kotlikoff. Laurence Kotlikoff is a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Kotlikoff/ Twitter https://twitter.com/kotlikoff LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencek... Substack https://larrykotlikoff.substack.com/ Books https://kotlikoff.net/books/ Company https://maxifiplanner.com/

Wade Pfau and Prof. Kotlikoff discuss retirement planning strategies, dangers of Monte Carlo, and achieving a financially successful retirement. Wade's expertise in retirement income planning shines through, emphasizing the importance of annual plan adjustments and exploring innovative approaches to financial planning for a secure retirement.

Apollo's Chief Economist, Torsten Slok, shares insights on the current banking crisis, stubborn 5% inflation, rising recession prospects, potential real estate subprime crisis, the Fed's role in inflation, and Danish optimism vs economic pessimism.