Your Brain on Money

2. Being below the highest possible level or standard; less than the best.
4. A deeply held false belief that is resistant to reason or contradictory evidence.
5. Having a harmful effect that is gradual, subtle, and often goes unnoticed until it's too late.
9. A person or thing that precipitates an event or a significant, rapid change.
13. Describing a process or force that is relentless, unstoppable, and impossible to prevent.
15. Protective barriers designed to prevent something from going into a dangerous area.
16. Causing or leading to complete destruction, disaster, or devastation.
17. Deliberately undermining or destroying something from within.
18. Treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just.
19. No longer existing or functioning, often used to describe a company or a fund.

1. Describing an action that is pointless, producing no useful result.
3. To express or measure the amount or number of something.
6. Periods of ten years.
7. Behaving in a daring, adventurous, and flamboyantly courageous manner.
8. Restricted or tied down, either literally with a rope or metaphorically by a strong influence.
10. Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason, system, or logic.
11. Spreading uncontrollably and flourishing, used to describe something undesirable like disease or corruption.
12. To be filled to the point of overflowing or swarming with living things.
13. A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged; the resistance to motion or action.
14. Describing a price or amount charged that is unreasonably and shockingly high.