Larry's Substack Articles
Substack articles on various topics by Larry Kotlikoff
Last year Americans contributed close to $600 billion to charity. That’s both a lot and a little. It’s more than the GDP of 85 percent of the 195 countries ...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Derek Tharp is an associate professor of finance at the University of Southern Maine, the founder of Conscious Capital and head of innovation at Income Lab....
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tens of millions of American households rely on the financial industry to provide investment and related financial advice that is in their best interest. Th...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Forty-year-old Jerry lives in New Mexico. Jerry’s single. But he’s dating an AI bot named Techninny. He loves her or them. But Jerry knows Techninny’s tende...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:10 AM
As you likely already know, the reason the market’s been booming is that the valuations of the 10 largest AI companies, including Nvidia, have skyrocketed t...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Today’s focus is on an article by Derek Horstmeyer, entitled “Inflation-Protected Bonds Fail a Key Test: They Don’t Help When Inflation Is High.” Professor ...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We all know that starving is far worse than gorging. The former kills you. The latter gives you gas. That’s why few of us choose to go hungry or eat 76 hotd...
Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The 2006 Pension Protection Act (PPA) allowed lifecycle, aka target-date funds, to serve as a “qualified default investment alternative,” permitting employe...
Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 4:25 PM
These are tough times for investors in risky assets. No matter the asset class, there’s a nightmare lurking. As any squirrel will tell you, running out of a...
Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've gambled at casinos twice. Each time I left my credit cards in the hotel room and took $100 in cash. This was the maximum I was prepared to lose doi...
Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 4:23 PM