How Dollars and Sex intertwine
As Groucho said, " love flies out the door when money comes innuendo". And actually, you don't even need the innuendo to crash a relationship.
Gail Vaz-Oxlade was our host last Friday with a special Project Money edition of The Current. She had a lot to say about personal finance with lots of tips many of our listeners' found useful. But when Toronto City Hall had another of its increasingly frequent convulsions and we had to cut Gail's program short. She'd prepared one more interview which we had to postpone -- until today.
Smart people can make very dumb decisions with their money - and their relationships often suffer the consequences. Gail Vaz-Oxlade has seen people risk their relationships and futures because of out of control spending. The new reality is that many women earn just about as much as, or sometimes even more, than their significant other.
And that leads to a much different world than 50 years ago when it comes to decisions about what to do with the money and who makes the decisions.
It's far from romantic, but Marina Adshade says economics can explain a lot of what happens in romantic relationships. She's an economist at the University of British Columbia and the author of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love, and she keeps a blog by that same name.
Marina Adshade was in Vancouver.
If any of that rang a bell for you, let us know.... How have tensions over money affected your relationships?
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This segment was produced by The Current's Pacinthe Mattar.
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Last Word - The Story of Rudolf Hoss on Friday
Coming up tomorrow on The Current, Friday host Rick MacInnes-Rae speaks with Thomas Harding who's written a book about the hunt for a notorious Nazi war criminal. And not just any war criminal.
It's the story of the search for Rudolf Hoss, the man in charge of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Rudolf Hoss would eventually meet his end at the gallows, but not before detailing the terrible extent of the Nazi crimes at his trial. If it weren't for the efforts of the man who found him -- that testimony might have been lost.
Author Thomas Harding explains in today's Last Word.