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Real-estate agents keep their own homes on the market an average of 10 days longer and get higher prices than comparable client homes.
GoldenKeyFreakonomics Asks: Does your real estate agent have your best interest in mind?
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Monster Beverage rose 211,000% from 1995 to 2016, yet lost more than half its value five separate times.
Morgan HouselThe Psychology of Money
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Hinkley Point C’s environmental assessment spans 31,401 pages and includes a £700 million underwater “fish disco.”
Noah SmithThe UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S.
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A 50% loss requires a subsequent 100% gain merely to break even.
My First MillionRay Dalio: The one thing I do differently before investing a single dollar
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A quarter-mile of Midtown Manhattan holds roughly 50 banks, including five Chase branches. Across New York City, Chase outnumbers Starbucks.
PolyMatterHow America’s 4,488 Banks Work
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Fifteen good, uncorrelated return streams cut about 80% of portfolio risk without reducing returns, multiplying the return-to-risk ratio roughly fivefold.
My First MillionRay Dalio: The one thing I do differently before investing a single dollar
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Entry-level applicants needed 300 applications in 2025, up from 100 in 2022, and over half search six months.
PolyMatterThe Entry-Level Job Crisis
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Xerox’s superior new machine sold poorly because sales commissions favored the inferior machine.
ShaneThe Power of Incentives: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
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A checking account may lose money for 23 years before that customer takes out a profitable mortgage.
PolyMatterHow America’s 4,488 Banks Work
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Buying one pencil trades minutes of your work for seconds of labor from thousands of strangers.
Free To Choose NetworkMilton Friedman - I, Pencil

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