{"id":26241,"date":"2016-05-31T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/can-tracking-our-hormones-make-us-smarter-with-money"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:41:52","slug":"can-tracking-our-hormones-make-us-smarter-with-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/can-tracking-our-hormones-make-us-smarter-with-money","title":{"rendered":"Can Tracking Our Hormones Make Us Smarter With Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-tracking-our-hormones-make-us-smarter-with-money.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad with money? Blame it on your hormones according to Richard Thaler.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: most of us suck at managing money.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w22066\">National Bureau of Economics working paper<\/a> published this March, roughly three quarters of all American households carry some form of debt. 40% haven\u2019t paid off their credit cards. Nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/retirement-in-america\/#charts\">half<\/a> have no savings at all. And the US isn\u2019t alone: Canada, the UK and Australia are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/03\/americans-shortsighted-in-debt-and-bad-at-investing\/472680\/\">roughly<\/a> the same debt-ridden neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that we\u2019re bad with money. But according to Richard Thaler, an economist at the University Chicago, we\u2019re not (entirely) to blame.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/29\/can-tracking-our-hormones-make-us-smarter-with-money\/\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/29\/can-tracking-our-hormon...ith-money\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad with money? Blame it on your hormones according to Richard Thaler. Let\u2019s face it: most of us suck at managing money. According to a National Bureau of Economics working paper published this March, roughly three quarters of all American households carry some form of debt. 40% haven\u2019t paid off their credit cards. Nearly half [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50350,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions\/50350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}