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Scott Burns

Scott Burns’s personal finance column has been nationally syndicated since 1981. He is Chief Investment Strategist for AssetBuilder, an Internet-based registered investment advisory firm.

Titles by This Author

The Clash of Generations

Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy
By Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns

The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enron blush, America’s insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is a fiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, and others. How did this happen? In The Clash of Generations, experts Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns document our six-decade, off-balance-sheet, unsustainable financing scheme. They explain how we have balanced our longer lives on the backs of our (relatively few) children.

The Coming Generational Storm

What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
By Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns

This paperback edition of The Coming Generational Storm has been revised and updated and includes a new foreword by the authors.