In October, Blake Werner, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Arkansas, saw a highly speculative trade he made in the market go his way. Werner had put up $26,500 on a call option on a ...

A recent study explored the decisions that people typically make in everyday life and the kinds of decisions that are considered the most risky. The study was conducted with over 4,000 adults in ...

Quitting a job. Buying a house. Everyone at some point in their lives will make a risky choice that may have a cascading effect on their life path. However, with increasing globalization and ...

Infostealer malware keeps popping up in the news these days. Those headlines about millions of compromised passwords, some linked to major services like Gmail? Just a year or so ago, such big info ...

As of this year, only one China-based scientist has won a Nobel in natural science — Tu Youyou, in 2015, for work developing the anti-malaria drug artemisinin. Yet China invests more in research and ...

WSJ’s Veronica Dagher breaks down the three big goals that homeowners should consider before refinancing their mortgages. Photo Illustration: Noah Higgins-Dunn The unaffordable housing market is ...

When Oklo Inc., a nuclear power startup, applied in 2020 to operate its first reactor, the company rested largely on outsize ambition. Its MIT-educated co-founders, a married couple named Jacob and ...

Frequent headlines about stock indexes hitting record highs don’t mean very much when we are in a bull market, as steady economic growth can fuel overall stock-market growth. But the S&P 500’s ...

Ron Dean, an actor known for his roles in “Risky Business” and “The Breakfast Club,” died on Oct 5. He was 87. The cause of death is unknown. Dean’s partner, Maggie Neff, announced the news. “He ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Sometimes a captain makes a weird call. A gut decision. Something that doesn’t really make sense on paper, but maybe makes sense in vibes. Jimmy Walker knows it well. Yes, that ...

Recently I was invited to participate in a podcast on risky decisions. The specific incident was the death of a hiker who had deliberately chosen a route that was known to be really dangerous. Why ...