Mackey’s Listening To: NPR’s Hidden Brain

Mackey’s Listening To: NPR’s Hidden Brain

A couple months ago, an incredibly engaging episode of NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast featuring Brad Klontz, a financial psychologist. On the episode, he mentions money worries as a major source of anxiety for Americans. He says that while external economic forces often shape our financial well-being, our unconscious beliefs about money also contribute to how well we manage our money.

2022 Q2 Economic Update

2022 Q2 Economic Update

The anxiety among investors is understandable, given sky-high inflation, stock market losses, the war in the Ukraine, and looking mid-term elections.  However, now is not the time to panic.  One of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain is “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”.  And what is happening today, certainly rhymes with what we have seen in the recent past.