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3232100758046Why 100 Million Americans Are Financially Stressed
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Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:39:46 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=4358…and Will Likely Stay That Way In January 2016 I founded a tech start-up help Americans make better financial decisions. I’ve since learned that most people are stressed out because they save little, have enormous debt, don’t know where their money goes and feel they’re not on track to meeting their long-term goals. I also found that ... Read more
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4358Time To Choose Your Health Insurance: Don’t Make A $9,000 Mistake
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Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:23:42 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=4271Is there any financial decision that we dread more than the annual chore of choosing a health insurance plan? It’s got everything we hate: choice and information overload, time pressure, ambiguity and confusion, consequences worth thousands, uncomfortable scenarios involving disease and injury, inscrutable jargon coming at a time of the year full of other business, ... Read more
]]>4271‘Hey Boss, Can You Lend Me $4,000?’
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Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:00:23 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=3946How You’ll Know There’s a Problem Sometimes employees’ financial stresses get so intense, they become unavoidable management issues. They can reduce productivity and engagement and increase turnover, healthcare utilization, absenteeism and worse. Employers’ resources for addressing this kind of issue are typically very limited. It’s not unheard of for employees to directly ask their managers ... Read more
]]>39463 Vicious Cycles: Links Among Financial, Physical and Mental Health
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https://www.decisionfish.com/vicious-cycles/#commentsWed, 11 Jul 2018 19:21:08 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=3881Feedback loops are powerful forces of nature. Melting polar ice caps reduce the earth’s reflectivity, causing it to absorb more heat from the sun, which accelerates the melting. The cumulative, accelerating aspects of such loops make it imperative to break the cycle before it gets out of control. Below, I identify three feedback loops among financial ... Read more
]]>https://www.decisionfish.com/vicious-cycles/feed/13881The BSPA Conference: Behavioral Insights for Better Policies
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Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:16:27 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=2796I attended the Behavioral Science and Policy Association conference last month and learned a great deal about the latest thinking in nudges, choice architecture, social norms, persuasion and how these can improve policies and decisions that people make. I went hoping to get some good ideas to apply to my company, Decision Fish, and to ... Read more
]]>2796Help Millennials Make Better Financial Decisions
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Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:53:15 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=1900On January 31st, Decision Fish led a lively session on how to Help Millennials Make Better Financial Decisions as part of Impact Hub NYC’s 100 Days of Impact program. 100 Days of Impact is a community program to find out what we can do as a community to address concerns and make an impact.
]]>1900Health Insurance Enrollment: A Superhuman Decision
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https://www.decisionfish.com/health-insurance/#commentsTue, 06 Dec 2016 00:58:58 +0000http://www.decisionfish.com/?p=1337Open enrollment for health insurance began November 16 and the decision isn’t any easier than last year. On the contrary, not only are premiums higher and benefits lower, there’s greater uncertainty about the future of the Obama health care act. On a cold, cloudy Sunday afternoon, I analyzed my health insurance choices. Our choices and ... Read more
]]>https://www.decisionfish.com/health-insurance/feed/21337Solar Power in New York: A Foggy View?
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https://www.decisionfish.com/solar-power-in-new-york/#commentsTue, 24 Nov 2015 16:46:33 +0000http://decisionfish.com/?p=291I have always been an ardent fan of solar power, ever since that balsa wood solar powered toy boat I built in elementary school. Free, unlimited and clean power would change the world if and when it can made practical. As I was preparing for a series of lectures on Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the ... Read more