There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.