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Put Your Money in an Immediate Annuity Instead of a Lump Sum

Don McNay | Posted 02.16.2013 | Home
Read More: Richard Thaler, Insurance Companies, Life Lessons From the Lottery, Powerball, Annuity, Mega Millions, Personal Finance, Immediate Annuities, Lottery Winners, Powerball Jack, Arends, Home News
Don McNay

Taking money over time is a tenet of my faith. I believe in God, the Cincinnati Reds and not taking money in a lump sum.

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Can Crowdsourcing Save the World?

Chris Deary | Posted 10.04.2012 | Business
Read More: Holland, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Richard Thaler, Tieneke Breemhaar, Cass Sunstein, Nudge, Business News
Chris Deary

Can crowdsourcing provide the answers to one of mankind's biggest challenges, namely how to sustain an ever-growing population in a world of ever-diminishing resources?

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Nudge the U.S. Out of Its Obesity

Kevin Hansen | Posted 08.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Richard Thaler, Smoking, Mayor Bloomberg, Beverages, Obesity, New York News, Cass Sunstein, Nyc Soda Ban, Home News
Kevin Hansen

Unlike anti-smoking advocacy, anti-obesity policymaking is a much less mature field, and the public is still unsure when -- or if -- it wants the government meddling in what it eats and drinks.

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Getting Rich Slowly

Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2011 | Business
Read More: Annuities, Get Rich Slowly, JG Wentworth, Pensions, Main Street, Don McNay, William Spitz, Richard Thaler, Wall Street, Vanderbilt University, Wealth Without Wall Street, Eastern Kentucky University, Structured Settlement, New York Times, Million Dollar Round Table, Annuity, American College, Personal Finance, Jerry Springer, Business News
Don McNay

Because the money is harder to access, people who take structured settlements are more likely to "get rich slowly" than my professional clients who can cash in a mutual fund or stock whenever they want.

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Message To Facebook: I'm Taking Back My Happiness

Amy Gutman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Richard Thaler, Sherry Turkle, Behavioral Economics, Facebook, Cass Sunstein, Libby Copeland, Facebook Emotion Analysis, Facebook Depression, Relationships, Facebook Status Updates, Nudge, Facebook-Happiness, Facebook Status, Facebook Status Study, Happiness, Healthy Living News
Amy Gutman

Facebook: Good or bad? Is it nurturing our families and communities by bringing us closer together? Or is it a dangerous threat -- a technology that fosters isolation, anxiety and narcissism?

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Investment Choices Linked To Areas of Brain

newsweek.com | Nikhil Swaminathan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Redit Card Bill of Rights Act, Richard Thaler, Investing, Subprime Mortgages, Neurons, Ventral Striatum, Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, Risk Management, Risk, Business News

A region of the midbrain called the ventral striatum may be partly to blame for the fact that millions of Americans fell prey to risky financial gambl...

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