Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Eric's career includes extensive work in both ...

Rational choice theory (RCT) theorists believe that most human decisions are based on maximizing a person's own benefits, while minimizing that which can hurt the individual, according to Business ...

Kai Ryssdal: It may not be what you want to hear in the middle of the worst recession in 75 years, but the market? It has no idea what it’s doing. Believe it or not that’s a fairly recent discovery.

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion. To many young people, the idea of efficient ...

We don't always behave the way economic models say we will. We don't save enough for retirement. We order dessert when we're supposed to be dieting. We give donations when we could keep our money for ...