Why do we buy things we cannot afford? | FT #shorts
‘Doom spending’ is the increasingly common consumer behaviour where people splurge on frivolous or unaffordable items to escape feelings of financial anxiety, and almost half of all Britons do it, the FT’s Marianna Giusti explains.
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