-
Wealth School: A Blessing of Wealth and Well-Being
The Huffington Post: Wealth is a difficult word these days because it seems we have been witnessing an abuse of our financial resources. Nevertheless, our experience of wealth goes way beyond money alone. What does
-
Most people want more income equality
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: Earlier this fall, the Journal Sentinel reported that 46% of Milwaukee’s children live in poverty. More recently, the paper compared similarly sized educational systems in Wisconsin and Finland. Those Finnish kids seem
-
Behavior experts: Some tricks can make it easier to go Christmas shopping when money is tight
The Washington Post: Trying to apply will power “should be your last resort,” he said. Much better is to stay away from the mall in the first place, “and it will be much easier to
-
Impatient People Have Lower Credit Scores, Research Finds
LiveScience: While patience may be a virtue, a new study is showing that it can also help your credit score. According to research by two economists at Boston’s Federal Reserve Center for Behavioral Economics and
-
Impatient People Have Lower Credit Scores
Is there a psychological reason why people default on their mortgages? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that
-
Wealth inequality: also going up
The Washington Post: Of late, James Pethokoukis, the American Enterprise Institute’s resident economics blogger, has been attempting to “close the case on the inequality myth.” Wednesday’s edition argues that it doesn’t really matter if income
