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BUSINESS: "Spend 'til the End": Guide to raising your living standard
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"Spend 'til the End": Guide to raising your living standard


(NECN) - When you think about planning for your retirement, you hear a lot of the same advice, set goals, save as much as you can, diversify your portfolio, max out your 401K.

But what if you're saving during the years when you could be spending and enjoying your money? A new book makes the case that almost every piece of conventional financial advice is dead wrong.

Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and co-author of the new book "Spend 'til The End- The Revolutionary Guide to raising your living standard- today and when you retire."

Laurence discuss three commandments in the book:

- Maximize your spending power
- Smooth your living standard
- Price your love

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