Why does bad news get more attention than good news? Not just that, it also triggers us into action.
I realised it yet again when my friend Vijay told me anxiously about a news he just heard.
“Did you read that the government is planning to reduce interest rates on small saving schemes?”
Small savings schemes include National Savings Certificates, Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, Post Office Monthly Income Scheme, PPF, etc.
“Yes, I heard that. But why are you bothered?” I said with my tongue-in-cheek.
“You know everything, yet you ask me that. Almost all my money is in these schemes, in fact most of it in Bank Fixed Deposits. Aren’t my returns going to suffer because of the reduction in interest rates?”