Where it may have started with the bigger things, one day, you may realize you’ve been standing in the breakfast cereal aisle ...

Here are some tidbits collected from here and there across the web: - You may have heard of FOMO, or “fear of missing out,” but have you heard of “FOBO”? FOBO stands for “fear of a better option.” ...

McGinnis coined the term FOBO, as well as FOMO, back in 2004 when he was a student at Harvard Business School and wrote an article titled “Social Theory at HBS: McGinnis’ Two FOs.” ...

“FOBO is a serious problem that can inflict far more damage than FOMO,” McGinnis noted. “Unlike FOMO, which is largely an internal struggle that mostly hurts you, the costs of FOBO aren’t just borne ...

Markets always look their very best at the top - that's increasingly the case with gold as it nears $3,000 a troy ounce. It's behaving like a Veblen good, an item for which, contrary to the laws ...