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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.024
EAN: 9781416548904
ISBN: 1416548904
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Sales Rank: 42806
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Rich or poor, young or old, high school or college grad, this book, written by economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff and syndicated financial columnist Scott Burns, can change your life for the better! If you follow the advice in this book, it will raise your living standard (possibly by a lot), improve your lifestyle, and help you spend 'til the end. And it will completely transform your financial thinking, turning every bit of conventional financial wisdom on its head.
If this sounds like a revolution in financial planning, you got it. So do The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Consumer Reports, and other top publications that have been featuring the authors' economics-based 'consumption smoothing' approach to financial planning.
Spend 'Til the End substitutes economic wisdom for the 'rules of dumb' that currently pass for financial advice. In the process it indicts the investment and financial-planning industry for giving most people saving and insurance targets that are much too high and then convincing them to invest in risky mutual funds and expensive insurance policies. The result is that most people are scrimping and saving during the years when they could be spending and enjoying their money -- and with no sure payoff.
Easy to read, this book is packed with practical and often shocking advice on whether to work, how to pick a career, which job to take, where to live, what sort of house to buy, how much to save, when to retire, which kind of retirement account to use, whether to have kids, whether to divorce, when to take Social Security, how fast to spend down your assets in retirement, and how to invest.
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating: - Future Shock
Our lives, including our financial lives, are a complex, ever changing dynamic.This book, along with the authors ESPlanner computer program, will allow everyone to look at the long term effects of their current financial decisions.Most financial planning advice is based a generalities and simplistic rules of thumb and don't handle the long term, variable needs of our changing families.Spend to the End deals with these needs and how to maximize living standards throughout our complex lives.
Rating:  - Important, stimulating, regrettably flawed
The greatest value of this book is that it got me to "think outside the box" that has been built for me by decades of financial writers, employer 401(k) seminars, and retirement guides. It is a popular introduction to a new way of thinking about financial planning called "consumption smoothing," advocated in particular by BU professor Laurence Kotlikoff. I think almost everyone should read it. We are all sick from an overdose of the conventional wisdom and this book is therapeutic.
But ... Read More
Rating: - Income Smoothing 101
A little background on myself before I start the review:I have read over 200 books on investing, so I count myself lucky if I learn 1 new thing for each new book I read.I have read quite a few columns by Scott Burns and generally agree with him on his ideas.I have read several papers and articles by Kotlikoff.I have not read any prior books written by either of these gentlemen.I have been a fan of index fund investing since 1990.
Before I read this book, I was also aware that ... Read More
Rating: - Spend till the End
This is a good no-nonsense book for those planning retirement.It offers solid advice, good relevant examples and gives alternates in planning how to survive in comfort through retirement.
While the book reads well and holds your attention it is also a great handbook to hold onto.It gives websites, addresses for agencies and resources to monitor your progress as you prepare for retirement income.
The book is written in laymans language and has a friendly "folksy" approach, ... Read More
Rating:  - Good points overcome by many issues.
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Overall a decent primer on how to think about personal finances from an economics point of view - with a caveat - much is controversial. I agree with the concept that your standard of living is the starting point to base financial decisions. It always has been, however the loss of pension programs for people to sustain their standard of living has changed how people need to ... Read More
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