1. Lately, the stock market has experienced unprecedented volatility - wild ups and downs.
Discuss how stock trading has created a lot of this volatility and the decisions for stock traders to buy and sell wildly in terms of hyperbolic discounting.
2. The news has been full of stories lately about the stock market problems, sub-prime mortgages, and ponzi schemes.
All of these required people to make decisions. Research one of the stories and discuss how motivation influenced people to make such terrible decisions.
Had exponential discounting played a part in the decision(s) that you had researched. If so, how?
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