Dubner and Levitt (authors of Freakonomics) take on the idea that monkeys can be taught to use money as a means of trade. If that's the case it proves my point that personal finance is 90% common sense. I wonder if the monkeys read pfblog?

Here's the full article: Monkey Business

And a brief excerpt:

"The capuchin is a New World monkey, brown and cute, the size of a scrawny year-old human baby plus a long tail. ''The capuchin has a small brain, and it's pretty much focused on food and sex,'' says Keith Chen, a Yale economist who, along with Laurie Santos, a psychologist, is exploiting these natural desires -- well, the desire for food at least -- to teach the capuchins to buy grapes, apples and Jell-O. ''You should really think of a capuchin as a bottomless stomach of want,'' Chen says. ''You can feed them marshmallows all day, they'll throw up and then come back for more.''

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