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The Card Game - How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card, Dominates a Market - Series - NYTimes.com
Every day, millions of Americans stand at store checkout counters and make a seemingly random decision: after swiping their debit card, they choose whether to punch in a code, or to sign their name. It is a pointless distinction to most consumers, since the price is the same either way. But behind the scenes, billions of dollars are at stake.
article  nytimes  money 
january 2010 by jtth
2D Boy: I love you, 2D Boy! » Blog Archive » Pay-What-You-Want Birthday Sale Results
“Huge success” is a pretty vague term, and we’re not going to leave you hanging.  The purpose of this post is to share the data we’ve collected during the experiment, not do draw conclusions.  This is just one data point about how this kind of pricing methodology can work, and we would need other developers to try it with different games and under different circumstances in order to be able to draw any real conclusions.  One thing we can say for sure, is that a large reason this experiment generated so many sales, is the huge amount of press and blog coverage it got.  We want to thank everyone who bought the game in the last week, and everyone who helped spread the word!
money  game  games  donation 
october 2009 by jtth
Billings 3 | Professional Time Billing for Anyone.
You've probably made sure that your website, business cards and letterhead reflect you and your professionalism. Now it's time to extend that professional look to your invoices. In fact, your image should be at its strongest, when you ask your client for payment. Billings generates the most professional looking invoices anywhere and we've included 30 templates to choose from. Simply add your logo and contact details and you are ready to invoice out of the box. You can get your first invoice out in 5 minutes.
mac  software  design  apple  tools  osx  macosx  business  productivity  money  inspiration  program  application  management  time  finance  tracking  project  apps  freelance  billing  invoice  app  timetracking  invoicing  projectmanagement  accounting  billings  invoices 
july 2009 by jtth
The Learjet repo man | Salon News
jobs  cool  business  economics  funny  money  people  history  planes  repo  article  salon 
june 2009 by jtth
Lifehacker - Know What Salary to Ask For in Your New Job - Job search
Questions about salary requirements are one of the very few questions guaranteed to come up during a job interview or screening process, as well as almost always cause some severe awkwardness on both sides. Once you've found a great job, how do you demand what you're worth without sounding arrogant? What if you toss out a low number and lock yourself in at a loss, or shoot too high and scale yourself out of the running? The web's chock-full of tools to help you gauge a reasonable asking rate, and we've received some pretty sound advice over the years on how to pull off the salary tightrope walk. Follow along for a guide to finding and asking after just the right pay rate.
reference  finance  financial  howto  tips  career  advice  jobsearch  interview  business  salary  search  lifehacker  employment  lifehacks  jobs  work  lifehack  pay  money  job  salaries  careers  hr  finances  negotiation  wages  wage  resume 
may 2009 by jtth
Edict of Prices
interesting  articles  history  games  money  statistics  economics  bible  rome  ancient  roman  prices  price 
february 2009 by jtth
WSJ.com
Your parents might have worried when you chose Philosophy or International Relations as a major. But a year-long survey of 1.2 million people with only a bachelor's degree by PayScale Inc. shows that graduates in these subjects earned 103.5% and 97.8% more, respectively, about 10 years post-commencement. Majors that didn't show as much salary growth include Nursing and Information Technology.
education  work  money  statistics  School  career  college  usa  jobs  salary  salaries 
december 2008 by jtth
Maxing out your Triangle — jackcheng.com
These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs—they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow. If you’re with me so far, then allow me to present exhibit A, the love-growth-cash triangle:
reference  design  cool  tips  interesting  fun  articles  visualization  lifehacks  productivity  work  philosophy  gtd  money  life  project  inspiration  career  reading  graphs  jobs  happiness  lifehack  love  job  charts  triangle  infographics  growth  love-growth-cash 
november 2008 by jtth
Barack's Brilliant Economic Plan Would Be A True Game Changer, In A Good Way
Obamanomics sounds pretty nice, and refreshing. It's different than standard Democrat or Republican rhetoric. Other than the lending institution for governments at the state and local level, allowing you to withdrawal from your retirement savings (just a little) sounds kind of like a pragmatic libertarian. And it might work.
article  politics  money  economics  policy  economy  2008  plan  obama  election 
october 2008 by jtth
Ten Thousand Cents
"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.
design  art  interesting  web  technology  development  web2.0  money  project  collaborative  amazon  distributed  community  visualization  mechanicalturk  crowdsourcing  experimental 
september 2008 by jtth
All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation. It’s among the statistics that the Federa
infographic  nytimes  consumer  money 
may 2008 by jtth
How to Make a Million at 25 - Kiplinger.com
Finances  money  saving 
february 2008 by jtth
Unqualified Reservations: A straightforward explanation of the present financial crisis (part 1)
finance  metaphor  economics  money  economy  article  education  business  computerscience  blog  banking  howto  print  reading  reserve  Story  tech  todo  virtual  windows 
january 2008 by jtth
What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think. - washingtonpost.com
Set aside the question of what we could have accomplished at home with the energy and resources we've devoted to Iraq and concentrate just on national security. Here, the hidden cost of the war, above all, is that the United States has lost much of its ab
iraq  politics  war  economics  bush  money  analysis  read  society  business  cost  culture  government  military  policy 
november 2007 by jtth
Windfalls of War II - The Center for Public Integrity
military  war  contractor  corruption  profit  money 
november 2007 by jtth
Raid on Ron Paul Dollar Maker - Markets - Market Features - EBAY - EBAY
Secret Service and FBI agents raided the makers of Ron Paul silver dollars, Liberty Dollar of Evansville, Ind., early Thursday in a move likely aimed at stamping out an illegal currency.
ron  paul  ronpaul  money  liberty  libertydollar  dollar 
november 2007 by jtth
The Position - Forbes.com
"He's not actually completely naked. If you look closely, you'll see he's wearing a penis sheath, fashioned from a gourd indigenous to the La Chorrera region. He’s been dealing with stress by ‘discovering’ himself in the South American rain forest."
business  fiction  forbes  funny  future  money  stories  scifi  Story  warrenellis  writing 
october 2007 by jtth
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful con
Iraq  politics  corruption  war  bush  government  money  fuck  future  evil  economy  economics  disaster  administration  america  army  article  articles  blogs  business  crazy  crime  wtf  world  usa  taxes  sad  research  reference  read  profiteering  planning  international  idea  history  journalism 
september 2007 by jtth
20 Investments: Introduction
A list of twenty different investments and what they are.
forbes  investments  investment  stock  bond  insrance  market  money  fund  funds  stocks  list  guide  investopedia 
august 2007 by jtth
H.R. 2755: To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve... (GovTrack.us)
H.R. 2755: To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve...
legislation  congress  law  track  federal  reserve  bank  money  government 
june 2007 by jtth
Surviving (and thriving) on $12,000 a year - MSN Money
How one woman survived on $12,000 a year.
survive  money  finance  12000  year  income  guide 
february 2007 by jtth
John Tierney: The Voices in My Head Say ‘Buy It!’ Why Argue? - Science Times Columnist - The New York Times - New York Times
A little article that scratches the surface of the part of the brain associated with spending and saving.
cogsci  neuroscience  nyt  article  nytimes  shopping  money  science  mri  fmri  imaging  carnegie  mellon  university 
january 2007 by jtth
Pot is called biggest cash crop - Los Angeles Times
The $35-billion market value of U.S.-grown cannabis tops that of such heartland staples as corn and hay, a marijuana activist says.
pot  marijuana  drugs  drug  crop  policy  us  cannabis  weed  dope  money  finance  market  markets 
december 2006 by jtth
How funding works: So startups are abandoning venture capital. Why? - Valleywag
How startup funding works, and alternatives to VC funding.
business  entrepreneurship  finance  money  read  startup  startups  vc  funding  venturecapital 
november 2006 by jtth
102 Personal Finance Tips Your Professor Never Taught You
Excellent finance tips.
advice  college  finance  Finances  investing  lifehacker  lifehacks  money  productivity  tip  tips  read  organization  personal  credit 
november 2006 by jtth
Mind Matters: The Science of the Brain - Newsweek Mind Matters - MSNBC.com
An article about the counter-intuitive properties of the Ultimatum game.
mind  neuroscience  cogsci  article  news  study  media  msnbc  money  ultimatum  game  interesting 
october 2006 by jtth
Wheaties for Your Wallet » Blog Archive » What Holds You Back?
An excellent post detailing 9 steps to handling your money. Good advice.
money  finance  blog  article  advice 
october 2006 by jtth
CheckBook for Mac OS X
Your old-fashioned paper check register can't provide the sorting and balancing features you so desperately need, but on the other hand, monster applications like Quicken make you sift through tons of features and distract you with their financial service
mac  osx  apple  finance  money  Finances 
october 2006 by jtth
10 Adsense tips for maximum click-through
Tips to get more money out of your adsense ads.
ads  money  advice  article  blog  search  tips  web  webdev  misc  hacks  google  entrepreneurship  development 
october 2006 by jtth
The Hidden Fortune Inside Your Paycheck [Fool.com: Commentary] October 6, 2006
What's the harm in putting off a few of those niggling financial "to dos"? What's the big deal about occasionally letting a few things slide? No big whoop if you don't mind taking a pass on thousands of your dollars.
finance  money  paycheck  fortune  saving  frugal 
october 2006 by jtth
MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition) - Valleywag
How MySpace is used for making money and spam.
myspace  business  money  corruption  fox  spam 
september 2006 by jtth
Personal Finance Advice » Blog Archive » Creative Job - Commute Helper
A man is paid to sit in a car so commuters can go in carpool lanes. He earns $100-$300 daily. Wow.
business  money  finance  cool  jobs  humour  interesting  cars  crazy  funny  fun  humor  social  work  tips 
july 2006 by jtth
Monopoly ditches cash, goes plastic
So aparently Visa struck a deal with Parker Bros. and they're using FAKE CREDIT CARDS AND POS TERMINALS in new versions of monopoly. Why?
game  games  money  tech  technology  mobile 
july 2006 by jtth
The Spider
How to make a spider out of five one dollar bills.
animals  art  diy  fun  cool  funny  hack  hacks  howto  humor  interesting  lifehacks  make  money  photos  read  reference  tips  tricks  origami  folding  spider 
may 2006 by jtth
Treehugger: Top Three Gadgets That Can Actually Save You Money
An interesting list of gadgets that are made for efficiency. On my list of "shit to buy at some point."
gadgets  green  money  nerd  technology 
april 2006 by jtth

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