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Stock markets do not always act rationally. Emotions like fear, greed, and excitement can cloud our better judgement of a situation and lead to suboptimal decisions. Behavioral economics is the analysis of how factors other than rational economic frameworks drive real-life human decisions. You see this play out all the time in the markets. Just […]

If you believe the headlines, any number of things could trigger the next recession... Morgan Stanley predicts we will enter a recession within the next nine months due to heightened tariffs from the trade war. Capital Economics says there is a one in three chance the U.S. will be in recession in the next year […]

Imagine if apparel maker Hanesbrands still relied on the spinning jenny. Or if software giant IBM hadn't updated its servers since the 1980s. We'd be paying more for scratchy underwear. And an IBM "desktop" computer would be a desk. More likely, of course, Hanesbrands and IBM would simply disappear. Companies can't possibly compete without this […]

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