Tag: psychology

Social connections

  “No one will ever pay you what you’re worth,” Casey Brown says in the Ted video above. An employee’s value is also highest when unemployment is as low as it is now – 4.4 percent in April – and employers are scrambling to fill jobs. Why would an employer pay more than it has to?…

Goblin

No longer simply a convenience for shoppers, the internet has come into its own: it is now an ingenious tool for squeezing money out of our wallets. This realization first struck me last year while helping my brother and his wife in Chicago with a flight to visit our mom in Orlando. The reason I…