Advertisers want your preferences (they're paying for them,) friends are commanding us on Facebook to choose between pasta and rice (as if....) and now behavioral scientists are getting in the game: a group from New York University wanted to know whether us bargain hunters are more likely buy from retailers advertising "deep discounts" or "everyday low [...]

We're supposed to be cooking for - or even better yet, cooking with - our kids. Why? Home cooked meals were associated with diets lower in calories, sugar and fat, but not with higher monthly expenses for food, according to the University of Washington School of Public Health."By cooking more often at home, you have a better [...]

If thoughts of your aging are making you anxious, researchers have found a cure. Not for the falling faces and sagging knees (you'll need a doctor for that) but  new household economics study from Hiroshima University has found that financially literate people are less worried about growing old, mostly because they're better at accumulating wealth. Let's face [...]

We walk into grocery stores worried about shopping lists and coupons, but confident that the same corporations who fill produce bakery smells purely so we spend more money have also designed a cart safe enough to keep our kids from splattering to the floor. Big mistake. Unlike cribs and car seats, which are all mandated by [...]

Venmo is the magical app that makes it possible for us to instantly pay for wine at a friend's members-only club without being a member - two clicks on your phone and you've bought the next bottle. It is, you could say, a But, the Federal Trade Commission has received a number of complaints about how [...]

Finally, parenting we can all achieve! News from one of the country's most esteemed academic institutions tells us to mess up. Yes, this is good parenting that will help our kids succeed! Researchers from MIT found that babies who watched an adult struggle at two different tasks before succeeding tried harder at their own difficult task, [...]

No more disparaging the idea of your kid flipping burgers or fetching coffee, doing these jobs today will get a young person ahead later in life. Teenagers who work summer or evening jobs - yes, after school - will develop knowledge of the working world and become more likely to make more money in the future. [...]

If there's a retail enticement I cannot resist, it's a store's dangling of impossibly stylish clothing for seemingly reasonable prices. You spend $39  (that's about the common offering) and in return get a pair of shoes or a set of lingerie or an awesome workout outfit. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out, as [...]