"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
David Perelltwitter.com"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
Yet we still have the urge to acquire more to get good feelings and to signal our success to others, and to avoid less to avoid bad feelings like fear and shame.
Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
consumer sentiment is everything because it drives consumer spending, the central driver of GDP growth.