With Coronavirus cases back on a major upswing here in the U.S. and Arizona in particular, some lessons from behavioral economics swirled back into my memory. Specifically, I’m thinking of the marshmallow test. For those not familiar, this is a test invented by Walter Mischel, a psychology researc...
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Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst. When my husband Craig and I moved from Vermont to Arizona nearly three decades ago, we counted ourselves lucky that we were moving from a state with very little exposure to natural disasters (if you don’t count the brutal winters) to another that was also ...
In all my years of following financial media (by the way, that task ranks right near “wearing a tie” on my least favorite part of the job), I’ve noticed that the fast pace and endless amount of available data pushes us towards asking all the wrong questions. Especially now, the “squawk box w...
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly uprooted our lives over the last three months. For the vast majority of us, it’s likely the largest disruption to our daily routines that we’ve ever experienced. My children’s school was moved online, we abruptly sent 90% of our workforce home to work, gyms an...
Phrases that are all too common: “I just can’t seem to get ahead.” “I’m tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck.” “It always feels like one step forward and two steps back.” These are all associated with the cyclical consequences of routine. Despite telling ourselves that we are going t...
I wrote this article back at the beginning of 2020. Before social distancing, when we could still buy tickets for Spring Training games, and before many of us were actually tapping into our emergency fund. Now is a great time to really prioritize your Emergency fund as part of your Financial Plan to...
We left last week continuing to explore our investment strategy acknowledging the reality that the value premium has been negative across all markets for the ten-year period ending in 2019. Conversely, the profitability premium and the market premium have been strongly positive over that same period...
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