The FREAKest Links: Rotten Chicken and Personal Debt Edition
Repulsed by that six-inch centipede? Or are you simply being reminded of your own inevitable demise? A study led by Cathy Cox, a graduate student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the...
View ArticleFreakonomics in the Times Magazine: Payback Time
Read the Column » Manipulation of Collateral Values by Borrowers and Intermediaries By Itzhak Ben-David Income and Wealth Effects of Italian Household By Charles Grant and Tuomas Peltonen Appraisal...
View ArticleAnother Look at “Sellers’ Concessions” in Real Estate
Our recent New York Times Magazine article on the use of cash-back transactions in home sales produced a mountain of e-mail responses. Among the most interesting was this one from New York attorney...
View ArticleThe Mole
Money magazine has a new columnist who simply goes by the name “The Mole.” I love the idea behind the column: an industry insider reveals the dirty secrets of financial planner misdeeds to the general...
View ArticleWhat Would Micropayments Do for Journalism? A Freakonomics Quorum
The notion of micropayments — a pay-per-click/download web model — is hardly a new one. But as a business model it hasn’t exactly caught fire, or even generated more than an occasional spark. Lately,...
View ArticleWhy the CFPB’s Qualified Mortgage Rule Misses the Mark
This post grows out of two working papers (downloadable here and here) I’ve written with Joshua Mitts, a former student of mine who is now working at Sullivan & Cromwell. Why the CFPB’s Qualified...
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