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Charles Duhigg Quotes
Charles Duhigg
American
Journalist
Born:
1974
Because
Drinking
Nation
People
Water
You
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In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.
Charles Duhigg
Past
Flash
Orders
In The Past
Defended
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.
Charles Duhigg
History
Struck
Exchange
Most
Until
Fairly
Deal
Trading
Sellers
Stock
Wall
Straightforward
Floors
Street
Buyers
Gathered
Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
Charles Duhigg
Game
People
Top
Claims
System
Out
Fraudulent
Had
Said
Reduced
Dollars
Trying
Hands
Officials
Agency
Paid
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Keeping
Medicare
Number
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans.
Charles Duhigg
Buy
Financial
Other
Mac
Those
Mortgages
New
Institutions
Make
Providing
Banks
Capital
Loans
If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.
Charles Duhigg
Financial
Political
Mac
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Unable
Could
Capital
Spark
Raise
Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers.
Charles Duhigg
Once
Dessert
Through
Tied
Commercials
Candy
Bar
Transforming
Products
Companies
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
Charles Duhigg
Depression
Confidence
Cause
Enough
Would
Consumer
Consumer Confidence
Bottom
Most
Likely
Rock
Itself
Hit
Even
As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.
Charles Duhigg
Become
Nation
Older
Increase
States
Out
Percent
More
Taking
Mortgages
Industry
Reverse
Years
Than
Elderly
Grown
United
United States
Earlier
Two
Loans
Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charges are added to the debt every day, and the total amount owed grows over time.
Charles Duhigg
Time
Day
Every Day
Every
Added
Immediate
Charges
Total
Borrowers
Mortgages
Over
Make
Because
Reverse
Debt
Owed
Interest
Require
Grows
Amount
Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowers who expect to live in their home for a number of years.
Charles Duhigg
Home
Sense
Live
High
Borrowers
Only
Mortgage
Fees
Make
Because
Reverse
Years
Expect
Who
Number
Associated
Loans
Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.
Charles Duhigg
Financial
Seven
Say
Out
Some
Take
Mortgage
Adviser
Reverse
Years
Than
May
Move
Anyone
Should
Less
Who
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
Charles Duhigg
Political
Goals
Nation
Older
Harness
Corporate
Tried
Industries
American
Elderly
Might
Population
Grows
Dozens
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
Charles Duhigg
Financial
Prohibited
Rules
Some
Similar
Like
Massachusetts
Most
Adviser
Senior
Titles
Certified
Using
Including
Largest
Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.
Charles Duhigg
Home
Lonely
Older
Analyst
Telephone
Say
Rely
Perfect
Delivery
Because
Provide
American
Often
Customers
Companionship
Services
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
Charles Duhigg
States
System
General
Federal
Federal Reserve
Check
Attorneys
End
Urged
Reserve
In general, insurers say criticisms of claims-handling are unfair because most policyholders are paid promptly, and some denials are necessary to root out fraud.
Charles Duhigg
Unfair
Say
Out
Fraud
Criticisms
Promptly
Some
General
Most
Because
Root
Paid
Necessary
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.
Charles Duhigg
Experience
People
Sense
Enjoy
Our
Pleasure
Distress
Rush
Eating
Give
Almost
Because
Go
Subconsciously
Brain
Essentially
Diets
Us
Fullness
Carbohydrates
Start
Programmed
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.
Charles Duhigg
Food
Nation
National
Research
Easier
Obesity
Economic
Argue
Cheaper
Economists
Chicago
Bureau
Current
Biggest
Epidemic
Much
Reasons
Prepare
Now
University
Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'
Charles Duhigg
School
Students
Cheat
Get
Avoid
The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
Charles Duhigg
Win
Opportunity
Other
Everyone
System
Out
Only
He
NASCAR
Persists
Any
Turns
Cooperation
Believes
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