(MoneyWatch) Have you heard the parable of the broken window? It's a wonderful example of unintended consequences that applies not only to businesses activity and government regulations, but to ...

Learn what the sunk cost fallacy is, why people stick with bad decisions, and how to recognize this bias in money, work, ...

Columnist Raymond Atkins explains eight common logical fallacies, urging readers to spot faulty reasoning in politics and daily life.

Editor's Note: For 31 years now, Paul Solman's reports on the NewsHour have aimed to make sense of economic news and research for a general audience. Since 2007, our ...

The fallacy is that we are surprised when things that are supposed to vary a lot, come down one way a number of times. We feel the next case must break the pattern. In reality, there is no pattern.

Dividends give equity investors a less risky way to make money. Dividends received from a stock don't count toward the gains or losses that were made by buying that stock. When bond yields rise, ...

The gambler’s fallacy is an important example of betting jargon and one that describes a common and problematic mindset that may impact your decision-making when gambling online. This is also known as ...

The timeless ideal of true, unshakable happiness is that it is not found "out there," but is an inherent quality of our own soul. This isn't a modern self-help slogan; it is a truth that wise souls ...

Before we talk about the quality of education or the importance of freed, when it comes to charter schools, there's a much more fundamental fallacy that we must address first, a fallacy that addresses ...

This instinct reflects what might be called the Body Count Fallacy: the belief that moral responsibility in war can be determined by comparing death tolls. Yet wars are not measured in numbers alone.