Many people make the mistake of treating house inheritance like a lottery win, selling the property to move further away and ...

InStyle / Jhett Thompson The lipstick effect is when consumers still spend money on small indulgences during recessions, economic downturns, or when they personally have little cash. They do not ...

However, he also advises that in the search for independence, marketers might get a tad self indulgent. "Self indulgence could be a weakness," he says.

Aiding Ukraine is no indulgence, on the contrary. Nor is financing the welfare state, to which many Europeans are attached. But to focus on what really matters requires understanding that a ...