How to Avoid the Lottery Curse
Many people dream of winning the lottery, but most of those dreams will never become a reality. Even the winners who do win will often find their jackpots are gone in a blink of an eye due to bad choices or ill-fated investments. Here are some tips from real-life lottery winners to help you avoid becoming a victim of the lottery curse.Lottery organizers have gradually made their games harder to win for decades, says Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross. This has incentivizing players to keep buying tickets and keeps the jackpots rising. But "it’s not in their financial interest to make it too hard to win," he says. That would push ticket prices up or require larger jackpots that most consumers aren’t willing…