Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring
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Submitted by streetcapitalist on Thu, 2008-02-07 11:03.
(via www.nytimes.com)
Scientists and psychologists, say they are starting to discover what many Wall Street pros have suspected — people are hard-wired for money. The brain, they say, responds to high-stakes trading just as it does to the lure of sex. The riskier the trades get, the more the brain craves them.
