{"id":114,"date":"2009-05-03T01:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=114"},"modified":"2013-10-27T04:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:12:31","slug":"spend-til-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2009\/05\/03\/spend-til-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend &#8217;til The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been reading Scott Burns posts on financial investing and came across a reference to his book. \u00a0This book just wowed me with the concept of <em>income leveling<\/em>. \u00a0The idea is to have a constant standard of living throughout your lifetime. \u00a0That is, spend to the end. \u00a0Our biggest obstacle to this goal? \u00a0We cannot borrow enough while we are young.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite chapter &#8211; Scott analyzes the fortunes of a woman and her jobless surfer boyfriend. \u00a0(A sexist turnabout.) \u00a0Also interesting is the analysis that there is a U in the plot of standard of living vs. income. \u00a0How? \u00a0Government subsidies phase out faster than income rises. \u00a0What&#8217;s the worst income to be at you ask? \u00a0You will have to read the book!<\/p>\n<p>A must read, even if you don&#8217;t buy into the whole income leveling concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been reading Scott Burns posts on financial investing and came across a reference to his book. \u00a0This book just wowed me with the concept of income leveling. \u00a0The idea is to have a constant standard of living throughout your lifetime. \u00a0That is, spend to the end. \u00a0Our biggest obstacle to this goal? \u00a0We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2009\/05\/03\/spend-til-the-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spend &#8217;til The End<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[71,50],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-mustread","tag-laurence-kotlikoff","tag-scott-burns"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}