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At the Money: Why Self-Insight Is So Important  

The Big Picture

In work on economic games, he explores how choices commonly presumed to be economic in nature actually hinge more on psychological factors, such as social norms and emotion. To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Professor David Dunning of the University of Michigan.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. RITHOLTZ: — and having the guy — the attendant asked me, do you have an even number or odd number license plate?

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Reader Case Study: Is it Okay to Subsidize my Spendypants Adult Children?

Mr. Money Mustache

And since 2022 is becoming a year of interesting financial changes, it’s time to spark things up again, go back to our roots, and start covering some of the many subjects that are cropping up in this latest incarnation of our economic world. License to Chill – What’s the Worst Case Scenario? So I did the math on that too**.

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31 Passive Income Ideas to Build Real Wealth (Updated for 2023)

Good Financial Cents

Building multiple passive income streams has an additional benefit in the short term: it can make you more resilient and better able to weather economic shocks, such as what was experienced with the past housing crisis and global pandemic. License Your Music 13. This is your nest egg. We’ll come back to this. Start A Blog 9.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

Talk to people who try and get licensed to do insurance things, or if there’s a failure to pay out a policy in the litigation that follows. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds. MORGENSON: And it was, so Steve was a candidate that had economic ideas, okay? Or does that happen? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Cass Sunstein

The Big Picture

CASS SUNSTEIN, FOUNDER, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL’S PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Thank you, a great pleasure to be here. RITHOLTZ: There’s nobody in the world of economics or behavioral finance like Dick Thaler. I thought law and economics was extremely important and kind of on the right track.

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