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Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, March 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015

Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, March 26, 2015

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Airing on Thursday, March 26, 2015: With the Saudi-led coalition bombing targets in Yemen to stop advances by Houthi rebels, the price of oil right now is up 4 percent. That's a dramatic spike, given that Yemen accounts for a tiny percentage of the world's oil. More on that. Plus, did you know that nearsightedness causes people to make bad decisions about money? I'm talking about a kind of myopia that can't be fixed by the optometrist. It's the human tendency to see the future as hazy and the present sharply in focus. Behavioral economists have a fancy name for it: "hyperbolic discounting". Joseph Kable, a neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to talk about it.

 

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Airing on Thursday, March 26, 2015: With the Saudi-led coalition bombing targets in Yemen to stop advances by Houthi rebels, the price of oil right now is up 4 percent. That’s a dramatic spike, given that Yemen accounts for a tiny percentage of the world’s oil. More on that. Plus, did you know that nearsightedness causes people to make bad decisions about money? I’m talking about a kind of myopia that can’t be fixed by the optometrist. It’s the human tendency to see the future as hazy and the present sharply in focus. Behavioral economists have a fancy name for it: “hyperbolic discounting”. Joseph Kable, a neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to talk about it.