Marginal Considerations

Today, we want to discuss decision-making in financial and non-financial situations ‘on the margin’. Gaining a perspective on the ultimate impact of a variety of alternatives on the margin can facilitate decision making and ease concerns about what at first might seem to be very different potential outcomes. Considerations of the true impact that differences of outcomes have ‘on the margin’ can be very helpful in making financial and investment decisions in a way that is too often left unexamined by most people. In fact, it might be liberating to some who find themselves paralyzed with indecision. An example will illustrate what I am talking about…