Your Brain on Money

Your Brain on Money

The K-shaped economy has a holiday spending problem (and BNPL is making it invisible)

Money news for your Monday

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Hanna Horvath
Dec 01, 2025
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Your inbox is a wasteland of “FINAL HOURS” and “LAST CHANCE” subject lines. Your Instagram feed is people unboxing things they just bought, which makes you think about things you should buy, which leads you down a rabbit hole of comparison shopping for products you didn’t know existed 47 minutes ago.

Ah, holiday spending season — where retailers have spe…

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