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Reason October 2008 Will Wilkinson |
Why Opting Out Is No "Third Way" Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, is about the perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism." |
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2011 |
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy? Jim Heskett explores the argument for a more deliberative approach to problem solving offered up in the new Daniel Kahneman book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Let's Stop the Housing Crisis Once and for All It's hard to believe how easily it all could have been prevented. By simply following an old-fashioned standard for taking out a mortgage loan |
U.S. Banker July 2010 |
Mandatory Education To prevent future stress in the housing market at the levels we see now, financial education should be required of anyone who receives a mortgage. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
The Pioneer Richard Thaler, now a professor at the University of Chicago, along with cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky, pioneered and shaped the field of behavioral economics thirty years ago. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 Vitaliy N. Katsenelson |
The Fed's Irresponsible Move The 2001 rate cuts caused the bubble that is now a crisis. Here we go again. |
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Housing's New Risks For The Economy Mortgage rates are up, credit is tighter, and home prices are falling faster. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Are Homeowners Idiots? There's nothing that confuses economists more than people not acting in their own best interest by continuing to pay a large mortgage on a devalued house. |
Financial Advisor February 2008 Milton Ezrati |
Bailout Plan Spells Trouble For Future Mortgages Although the Bush administration's plan to deal with the subprime problem might help relieve some of today's financial strains, it will do so only at the expense of longer-term costs. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Dan Caplinger |
Why This Mortgage Move Is a Bad Idea The rumored proposal to allow refinancing doesn't address the true problem. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Atish R. Ghoshet et al. |
Anticipating the Next Crisis THE current global financial turmoil has rekindled the interest of both policymakers and the general public in early warning systems to anticipate future financial crises. But what alarms can such systems realistically sound? |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Your Smartest Money Move for 2012 If you have a high-interest mortgage, get rid of it. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2006 Mary Dalrymple |
Points for Mortgage Savvy It doesn't always pay to pay discount points. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 24, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis. |
Investment Advisor May 2010 Olivia Mellan |
The Psychology of Advice: Positively Irrational You can often make people's irrationalities work for them. |
CRM October 25, 2010 Alan Adler |
CRM: More Relevant Than Ever When used effectively, CRM can consume, organize, and help make sense of data. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Richard Gibbons |
Profit From the Housing Bust Smart investors recognize opportunity when everyone else is panicking. If you are prepared to consider a very risky short strategy, then homebuilders and lenders might seem like obvious targets. |
U.S. Banker October 2002 John Adams |
Of Housing and Helium Is the housing market a bubble waiting to pop? |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2011 Brad Hessel |
Can Behavioral Economics Boost Your Retirement Savings? Shaped by 190,000 years of pre-civilization experience, humans make bad long-term value choices -- but there's hope yet. |
IDB America February 2003 |
How to awaken dormant capital Several recent studies have demonstrated the success of microlending programs focused on housing in several developing countries, including some in Latin America. |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Kathleen Madigan |
After The Housing Boom What the real estate slowdown means for the economy. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
A New Kind of Refi Maybe homeowners are smarter than some people think. The share of the refinancing market attributable to adjustable-rate mortgages is at its lowest level since mid-2003. |
Searcher February 2009 Stephen Fadel |
A Searcher's Journey Through a Morass: Researching the Financial Crisis The economy during the past few months has been changing fast. Those maintaining information guides on the crisis will need to monitor changes in the crisis and add and remove resources when appropriate. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Fogging the Mirror in Mortgage Lending The housing industry is getting bogged down in the aftermath of subprime loans. Investors, take note. |