A Bump in Pay Brings Happiness, Regardless of Your Income Level
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, |
| 0:05.0 | offering the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, |
| 0:10.0 | CME Group, where Risk Meets Opportunity. |
| 0:14.0 | Here's your money briefing from Monday, October 7th. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:25.0 | Researchers who study the relationship between money and our behavior found that having more money can mean more happiness, even if you're |
| 0:36.0 | already rich. |
| 0:37.0 | If you look at how incomes are actually distributed in the US, that is to say how much money a bunch of different people make. |
| 0:46.0 | It's actually the case that at the high end of income, income grows so much that it's large enough so that people are actually getting enough additional |
| 0:56.7 | dollars to continue getting happier. |
| 0:59.1 | We'll talk to Wall Street Journal, a personal finance reporter Joe Pinsker, after the break. |
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| 1:44.0 | New research from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School |
| 1:50.0 | shows having more money can buy happiness, even for those who are already well off. |
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