Sexing Up Government Bonds
Japan’s Ministry of Finance is exploring a new avenue for selling government bonds: sexing them up. The new ad features five women and reads: “Men who hold JGBs are popular…
Japan’s Ministry of Finance is exploring a new avenue for selling government bonds: sexing them up. The new ad features five women and reads: “Men who hold JGBs are popular…
…doomed by our biology to make the same predictable mistakes over and over. Take finance: we tend to play it safe in situations where we stand to make gains. But…
…am making things up as I go. He clearly knows the vast literature in banking and finance that makes some of these points about the costs of low rates. But…
…risk-free rate, modern finance essentially falls apart, since it is the building block of most financial models. People use it for determining everything from the value of a company, to…
…taken a loan in the previous year, with the majority of those loans (44%) coming from a bank or finance institution, and the rest coming from other sources, like moneylenders,…
…allocated loans to a subset of applicants considered too risky and “unreliable” to be offered loans as regular borrowers of a well established MFI [micro-finance institution] in Bosnia. Our group…
We blogged a while back about the sad state of financial literacy in this country. This has been diligently investigated by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell, who insert a…
…a partnership between Barry Diller’s IAC and Dow Jones for a new personal finance web site. Given his past accomplishments, Kansas is one guy you don’t want to bet against,…
…likely to have your ashes abandoned at a crematorium than to see a new book on personal finance be published in a given year. The Book of Odds is a…
How do you turn an empty house into a buyer’s dream home? Zachary Crockett pulls back the curtain….
More than two decades ago, Adam Riess’s Nobel Prize-winning work fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe. His new work is reshaping cosmology for a second time….
…that list customers’ personal information, rather than simply tear them in half. In a televised press conference, Abbott blasted stores like the EZ Pawn chain, charging that its practice of…
It used to be that making documentary films meant taking a vow of poverty (and obscurity). The streaming revolution changed that. Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler talks to Stephen Dubner about…
…from the Gallup World Poll,” that analyzes the results of a 2006 poll in which participants from 132 countries were asked identical questions on topics including standard of living, personal…
She used to run a behavioral unit in the Obama administration, and now has a similar role at Google. Maya and Steve talk about the power (and limits) of behavioral…
…works. Q: As a freelance Web designer/developer, I’m curious what role personal Web sites play in the careers of upcoming models and actors. Would you say such sites are necessary…
Also: is obsessing over your mental health bad for your mental health?…
After a dramatic election, Donald Trump has returned from exile. We hear what to expect at home and abroad — and what to do if you didn’t vote for Trump….
Would you steal Halloween candy? Should people be required to identify themselves online? And why did Angela go trick-or-treating in a trash bag?
How do you come back from being “canceled”? Are we more likely to forgive someone if they cry? And what makes a successful public apology?…
I’ve been enjoying Arthur Brooks‘s musings on the relationship between personal politics and personal happiness. And so I was interested to read an interesting piece in The Times (of London),…
Doctors, chefs and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t?
We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of?…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals founder Ingrid Newkirk has been badgering meat-eaters, fur-wearers, and circus-goers for more than 40 years. For a woman who’s leaving her liver to…
Do you see yourself the same way others see you? What’s the difference between self-perception and self-awareness? And why do Mike and Angela both hate fishing?…
Thomas Hildebrandt is trying to bring the northern white rhinoceros back from the brink of extinction. The wildlife veterinarian tells Steve about the far-out techniques he employs, why we might…
She is one of the best basketball players ever. She’s won multiple championships, including five Olympic gold medals and four W.N.B.A. titles. She also helped negotiate a landmark contract for…
…withholding at source for the collection of personal income tax on dividends, interest, independent personal services, or rents. However, the United States maintains one of the most substantial programs of…
To feed 7 billion people while protecting the environment, it would seem that going local is a no-brainer — until you start looking at the numbers.
