Making Cents

Take the 50k or Flip for a Million?

Making Cents

Show Notes

Frances Cook joins the Seven Sharp team to unpack a coin flip experiment that reveals how Kiwis think about risk and money, and why we will happily put it all on red but get nervous about the kinds of risk that actually build wealth.

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