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Ryan Sager
Money and Your Mind
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No Way to Tiptoe Around It: This Drink Can Be Hard to Swallow; In the Yukon, Home of a New Gold Rush, 'Sourtoe' Cocktail Endures; The Lip Test
WSJ.comDAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory—"You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow. But the lips have gotta touch the toe."So goes the regular incantation here in the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon, in the heart of Dawson City—itself the heart ...
Financial Advisers Flunk Undercover Sting; Sager: A new study finds advisers often put client interests second to their own.
SmartMoney.comBy now, you may have realized that you aren't always the most rational manager of your money. Chasing returns. Buying into bubbles. Selling into troughs. Keeping too much in cash or company stock. Heck, even if you keep a textbook, ...
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How Big Cities Can Lead to Small Thoughts
WSJ.comCities are famous for being incubators of creativity and ideas, fueled by diversity and constant exposure to people unlike ourselves. But two new studies on friendship and people's cellphone habits complicate that picture by offering ...
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Frog Hair to Woolies: Dust Bunnies by 173 Other Names; Regional Dictionary Travels America; New England's Willywags
WSJ.comWhat do you call those soft rolls of dust that collect on the floor under your bed? Many people know them as dust bunnies. But in parts of the Northeast, you'd call them dust kitties; in the South, house moss; in Pennsylvania, you ...
Watch the Debates. Mute the Ads; How you watch this fall's GOP debates -- and other political events -- could change your spending patterns, research suggests.
SmartMoney.comAs the 2012 presidential race heats up, candidates will be on the air trying to win your vote. But inadvertently, they may just convince you to buy a new car or change your brand of toothpaste.
Does Sex Really Sell? Yes. But not always -- and not for the reasons you'd think.
SmartMoney.comSex sells. That's the conventional wisdom, anyway. It's why Andie MacDowell is in so many shampoo ads. It's why George Clooney could sell tequila shots to pregnant women. And it's why beer commercials are, well, beer ...
Why We're Lousy Predictors; Two new studies offer insight into our terrible forecasting skills.
SmartMoney.comHumans love predictions. We speculate for years about who will win the next presidential election. We fill out Final Four tournament brackets. We check the seven-day forecast — even though the morning newscast is often wrong about the ...
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Ryan Sager
Ryan Sager is the deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's Saturday Review section and writes the Money & Your Mind column for SmartMoney magazine.
Previously, he wrote the blog Neuroworld for True/Slant and was a member of the editorial board of the New York Post and editorial features editor of the New York Sun.
He is the author of "The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians and the Battle to Control the Republican Party" (2006) and has written for Reason and the Atlantic.
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