The Great Wealth Transfer sounds like a heist film or a game show. It’s neither.

Doom spending is “spending money despite concerns about the economy and foreign affairs to cope with stress,” says the credit-tracking company, and about 27% of Americans say they’re doing it.

The end of one year and the start of another is always a good time to admit one’s mistakes. And I got something wrong — really wrong — about remote work.

For an ambitious, career-ladder climber, what sort of person makes the best mate? The human heart is not known for being coldly calculating, but pretend, for a moment, that it could be. What personality traits should be preferred?

The yearly paying out of lump sums to reward top talent is such a standard, established practice, questioning it may seem a little quaint. More than three-quarters of U.S. companies use performance incentives of some kind. Yet the fact remains, we don’t really know how well they work. Do they encourage people to work harder and smarter?

To what extent is parenting something that we can do Hermione Granger-style, where you go to the library and read all the books? And to what extent do you just need to improvise?