‘Tis the season for turning otherwise normal people into up-at-dawn, deal-seeking lunatics. What better time than the holidays to look at how consumers — in the U.S. and around the world — spend their discretionary dollars (as opposed to outlays on necessities like food and housing). For a U.S. snapshot, Forbes turned to SpendingPulse, the […]
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Whoops! The new bills’ high-tech anti-counterfeiting features were too much for government printers. Now about a billion bills are in quarantine, and many will need to be burned. Printer errors–we’ve all been the victims at one point or another. But what if a printer error set you back $100 billion? That’s the situation the Federal
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According to Neatorama, this is a one-of-a-kind penny, resulting from a production error at the U.S. mint in Denver. It was struck in bronze rather than the zinc-coated steel normally used during the WWII era. About 20 such errors are known from the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints, but this is the only one known
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Entrepreneurs looking for start-up funding from friends and family may have a tough time doing it these days, according to a new study out of Pepperdine University. According to The Wall Street Journal, just 35 percent of entrepreneurs polled said they had “informal investors” funding their businesses, down from 56 percent last spring. The most
According to CNNMoney, when hunting for cash, desperate small business owners may find themselves sucked into buying books and software packages promising “Billions in Free Grants!” from Web sites with names like NeverPayItBack.com, or hiring consultants who promise to find them gads of money. All they’re likely to get, though, are empty promises. Grants are
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According to Xin Lu over at Wisebread, side income is something everyone needs. Here are a few reasons why you should start building an income stream outside of your main job. 1. It’s a Personal Safety Net Your side income can be your personal safety net against unemployment. Job security is really a thing of
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According to The Week, in an attempt to discover and deploy new technologies more quickly, a growing number of organizations are offering hefty cash prizes to inventors with breakthrough ideas. Here are five $1 million-plus innovation prizes currently up for grabs: $1 Million For Growing Chicken In A Test Tube In an attempt to put
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Amy Rosenthal hung 100 dollar bills from a tree in Chicago just to see what would happen. Via: The Daily What
According to the Art Marcovici website, Cashvertise is the answer. The average 100 USD Note is circulating for 7.4 years, it changes hands on average 3x per week, so each ad on a 100 USD note is seen by more then 1000 persons. I would say, this can easily be sold at 5 USD/note.The other
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n {democracy:57} The correct answer is $1.6 billion dollars. And those are REAL dollars. Now there is a growing trend to pay people in virtual dollars. Check out the following story. Photo by jvangalen/funphotobox.
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