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Why maximizing your Social Security won’t bankrupt the system
If you’re a reader of my PBS NewsHour Social Security columns, you’ll know I’ve written a book with Paul Solman and Phil Moeller (a long-time personal finance columnist) called “Get What’s Yours — the Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security.” Leaving out children’s coloring books, the book has been Amazon’s #1 best-seller for over a week. It had a tough, month-long fight getting to the top. Its cover is green, not gray, features neither a whip nor handcuffs, and it had to squeeze past not one but three shady books of grey, as well as a magic book whose big trick is keeping your room clean, two toddlers’ books and a book about some girl on some train. It even passed (pre-orders of) Harper Lee’s new book and, Lord knows, the three of us are no Harper Lee. Read more…