"As mentioned in my previous post, everyone at Lincoln Loop sets their own salary. It’s another radical divergance from the business norm that we borrowed from the book of Ricardo Semler."

"So clearly at least one of the sellers was setting their price algorithmically in response to changes in the other’s price. I continued to watch carefully and the full pattern emerged."

"The criminals probably didn't realize that they were installing their ATM in a hotel that was soon going to be flooded with more than 8,000 security professionals, he added."

A history of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation in pictures.

"A e-mail from the Kluger Agency, which performs such product placements, mistakenly sent to Jeff Crouse of the Anti-Advertising Agency and Double Happiness Jeans, provides a rare glimpse into the secretive market for song lyric product placement."

"When you have the choice that either surplus food is put to good use like this or goes to landfill, then it's a bit of a no-brainer really ...It's just about putting the mechanisms in place to make it happen."

"unprecedented in raising more than $96,000 from nearly 6,000 people, many of whom do not live in Kansas. ... "There's no way I want to compete with that," says his opponent Republican State Rep. Arlen Siegfried.

"The internet and other new forms of gambling have not led to an increase in people having a flutter since 1999, a Gambling Commission study has found. In fact, due to a drop in the National Lottery sales, the numbers of people gambling fell from 72% in 1

"£5000 in £10 and £20 notes were individually dropped around the streets of London with a removable sticker that read, Carlsberg don’t do litter. But if they did it would probably be the best litter in the world’."

(And other real-life adventures in the neglected art of negotiation.) Everything is open to negotiation. Everything. For three months, the author treated the world that way. This is what ensued.

"Most countries seem to have finally whipped inflation—at least for now. But not everyone is celebrating the world’s impressive economic stability. In today’s List, FP takes a hard look at the soft currencies of some of the most unstable economies o

A comparison of console prices over the years, both absolute and also taking inflation into account.

A dynamic stock exchange like system for pricing drinks in a bar or club.