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Personal Finance

2 law professors explain who gets to keep the engagement ring after a breakup

By Naomi Cahn, Julia D. Mahoney, and others

Antisemitic speech on Twitter surged 105% after Elon Musk took over, new research finds

By Carl Miller and The Conversation

This photograph taken on January 21, 2022, shows the ceiling painting ‘Aurora on Her Triumphal Chariot’ by Guercino in the Casino dell’Aurora inside the Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome. – A Roman villa housing the only mural by Caravaggio failed to find a bidder in an auction on January 18, 2022 sparked by a dispute between its heirs. The sprawling Casino dell’Aurora will be put up for sale again in April, with the base price of 471 million euros ($534 million) lowered by about 20 percent, according to the notary involved in the sale.<br />
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A rare Caravaggio masterpiece valued at $331 million is locked away in a private Italian villa at the center of a bitter inheritance battle

By Monika Schmitter and The Conversation

Woman at ATM

Ever since the invention of insurance over 300 years ago, it’s encouraged people to take more risk. Welcome to ‘moral hazard.’

By Cassandra Jones Havard and The Conversation

Jerome Powell

The expert who pioneered ‘quantitative easing’ has seen enough: Central banks are too powerful and they’re to blame for inflation

By Richard Werner and The Conversation

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A brutal climate report is raising alarm bells about the future—but there are reasons to be optimistic

By Robert Lempert, Elisabeth Gilmore, and others

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Powell said Tuesday the central bank is likely to lift borrowing costs higher and potentially faster than previously anticipated. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Fed has to choose between generational inflation or the first banking crisis since 2008, finance professor says

By Alexander Kurov and The Conversation

Senior woman doing yoga inside home

Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived—here’s how to measure it

By Aditi Gurkar and The Conversation

Physical movement, good nutrition, healthy sleep, healthy levels of stress and stress management, social connection, finding meaning and purpose and spiritual practices all play important roles in preventing and treating depression.<br />
These are too often wrongly trivialized as less effective than professional treatment.

Depression too often gets deemed ‘hard to treat’ when medication falls short. An overreliance on it can cause harm

By Elissa H. Patterson, University of Michigan and The Conversation

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The ChatGPT choice: Is improving web search worth exposing humans to tech that preys on their compassion?

By Nir Eisikovits and The Conversation

Vinyl collector

I’m a business professor who sold my vinyl collection in the mid-1990s. It was uncool—and unwise.

By Jay L. Zagorsky and The Conversation

Silicon Valley Bank

Why the failures of SVB and Signature were such outliers—and why the banking crisis is far from over, former central banker says

By Vidhura S. Tennekoon and The Conversation

Silicon Valley Bank

Why the banking system is safe despite the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, according to a finance professor

By William Chittenden and The Conversation

Medical examiner

From grave-robbing to unclaimed poor to donating your body after death: Here’s a look at the strange history of medical cadavers

By Susan Lawrence, Susan E. Lederer, and others

Executive

CEOs with ‘integrity’ are less competitive and profitable, says new research with disturbing implications

By Prachi Gala and The Conversation