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This is the ninth article in the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series, exploring the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole and how advisors who understand this relationship ...

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: Recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...

Every macro crisis in travel produces the same confident obituary, and almost every obituary turns out to be wrong. I have been thinking about recency bias a lot lately — March 2026 feels a lot like ...

"Shark Week" is an annual block of TV programming on Discovery. It runs July 23 to July 29 this year. Perhaps the most famous shark — the fictional great white from the 1975 Steven Spielberg summer ...

"Recency bias" states that more recent memories come to mind more quickly. But specific ideas and objects that have “stood the test of time” can overcome recency bias. How do we take longevity into ...

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...