Does the Language You Speak Determine How Much Money You Save?

A controversial new study out of Yale concludes that people who speak languages without future verb tenses like Chinese are better at preparing for the future than people who use a future tense like in English, French, and Spanish for example.

Entire program – August 6, 2009

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