Financial Bubbles: Why Do Fools Fall in Love? at SmartMoney.comBefore we get to finance, consider these two common occurrences:1. Imagine it is Friday Night. You do not have to work until Monday. In fact you have no commitments. You just finished all of your tests, papers, etc. You are home alone. A ... Read more

Soros Launches Effort to Battle Free-Market Zeal | Newsweek Voices - Michael Hirsh | Newsweek.com: "...financier George Soros is announcing a $50 million effort to speed things along. This week Soros is gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized ... Read more

Nightly Business Report . Your Mind and Your Money | PBS: "Behavioral finance teaches us few people always make logical investment decisions. Psychological and emotional biases get in the way. NBR's year-long 'Your Mind and Your Money' series aims to help investors understand those biases and make m ... Read more

WGBH American Experience - The Crash of 1929Good video of the crash from PBS. I can not figure out how to embed it ... Read the full post ... Read more

Seeds of adult dishonesty are sown in youth, study finds -- latimes.com: "A new study claims there is truth to the adage: People who cheated on exams in high school are considerably more likely to be dishonest later in life, according to a report to be released today by the Josephson Institute of Et ... Read more

Remember what I mentioned last week? Holding leveraged ETF's log term is generally a losing game.An Experiment in Hedging With ETFs - WSJ.com: "ProShares warns investors that it aims to have the funds' movements correspond to the inverse of the relevant market indicator on a daily basis. Over more t ... Read more

Nightly Business Report . Your Mind and Your Money | PBS: "Behavioral finance teaches us few people always make logical investment decisions. Psychological and emotional biases get in the way. NBR's year-long 'Your Mind and Your Money' series aims to help investors understand those biases and make m ... Read more

YouTube - Shlomo Benartzi - Leading Authority on Behavioural Finance: "Professor Shlomo Benartzi is a leading authority on behavioural finance with special interests in retirement planning, investor behaviour and behavioural wealth management."His discussion is just an introduction but he definitely ... Read more

GMAC seeking third round of bailout funds - WSJ - Oct. 28, 2009: "GMAC Financial Services is seeking a third round of bailout funds from the U.S. Treasury Department, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal....the U.S. government could provide an additional $2.8 billion to $5.6 billion to t ... Read more

WOW. This one has some major ramifications.The short version is that the authors found that sometimes we really do think too much and when we do, out biases interfere with our knowledge and ability and our decision making actually gets worse. On the other hand sleeping (and I would venture yoga, med ... Read more