October, 2009

Chase Sapphire Card: Easy $100 Signup Bonus

The Chase Sapphire Card is a new rewards credit card that is offering 10,000 bonus points after your first purchase on the credit card, which can be redeemed for $100 cash. No annual fee. As a rewards card, it offers 1 point for every dollar in purchases (100 points = $1, or the usual ...

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The Origins of the US Dollar

Philosopher Ayn Rand once pointed out that it was Americans who coined the phrase “to make money.” Rather than seeing wealth as something looted or distributed, Rand conceived of it as being earned and produced. In America, the embodiment of financial wealth is the US dollar, also known as ‘the buck’ and ‘the greenback’. It ...

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Econ 223: Latest Developments In Financial World

NPR's Tovia Smith last week introduced us to Anne Witte, an economics professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Witte co-teaches Econ 223, which is a primer on among other things: credit cards, health insurance and 401 (k) plans. Witte talks with Renee Montagne about the importance of the class.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read ...

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Use Google Voice To Enhance Your Cell Phone Voicemail

You can now add the voicemail features of Google Voice to your existing cell phone service for free. Check out the Google Blog post and Engadget. More specifically, if you sign up for Google Voice with your existing number, you’ll get: * Online, searchable voicemail * Free ...

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Coconut Crab | Egad!

I'd give payday loans in League City to keep these things away! Occasionally, if you watch Google Trends, people search for things that are sort of interesting, like zoology - which is a form of knowledge.  (You don't see it often - most of the time Trends searches are about some less than intelligent event concerning ...

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