December 2009
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The 10 Most Expensive Auction Items Of All Time
Auctions are designed to drive up the price of something via competitive, real-time bidding. Some highly desirable items have reached astronomical prices before the hammer fell.
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25 New Year’s Quotes to Ring in 2010
Image: All Proactive Happy New Year! To ring in 2010, we’ve listed 25 new year’s quotes, sayings, and toasts to help you bless the incoming year (and decade): 1. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. -Hal Borland 2. […]
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10 Financial Resolutions For The New Year
As 2009 winds to a close, time has once again come to make your new year’s resolutions. If personal finance is important to you, you undoubtedly wish to set financial goals for yourself in 2010.
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Your Next Business Trip Could Come with a Full Body Scan
One reason Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went through the security line undetected was that nobody saw the bomb in his underwear. As a result, some airports, including all Dutch airports with US-bound flights, and Chicago’s O’Hare airport, will start using full body scan machines as part of their security protocol. Although the machines are expensive and […]
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper to Replace Light Bulbs?
Image: EcoFriendly Tips Energy-saving lightbulbs may reduce carbon output, but there’s something twice as efficient in the works: Wallpaper. A Welsh startup has received more than $500,000 from the UK government-backed Carbon Trust to produce light-emitting wallpaper. The Financial Times reports: The (Carbon) trust has given a £454,000 grant to Lomox, a Welsh start-up company, […]
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The Unquenchable Thirst: Taxing America’s Oil Addiction
In the U.S., our dependence on oil not only makes for wealthy oil companies, it also supports our federal, state and local governments. Gas taxes add up quickly and some areas of the country are taxed more heavily than others. However, one surprising thing holds true: The government profits even more from our oil addiction than the super-rich oil companies do.
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Taco Bell to Advertise “Drive Thru Diet” With Christine Dougherty, Who Lost 54 lbs Eating Taco Bell
Remember Jared Fogle, the man who slimmed down eating only Subway food? Now Taco Bell has its own weight-loss marketing weapon, “Christine,” who lost 54 lbs in 2 years by eating Taco Bell’s Fresco menu items. She is now featured as the star of the company’s Drive Thru Diet. ABC News reports: Along with Christine, […]
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12 Highest Paid People of 2009
From CEOs to athletes to Hollywood actors and actresses, even these recessionary times are brimming with high achievers who left the rest of the earning world in their dust this year. In fact, for some of these individuals, 2009 proved to be their personal income peak.
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Study: Black Markets Protect European Economies
European researchers have concluded that a big enough shadow economy can protect a country from recession. The Financial Times reports: Unofficial, or “shadow”, economies can help shield European countries during a recession – but illicit activity has to be on a sizeable scale, according to report by Germany’s Deutsche Bank. Countries with a high prevalence […]
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Against the Odds: Examining the Lottery Industry
So, what are your chances of winning big in the lottery? It turns out, not as slim as you may have thought.
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Book Review: “ESPN: The Company”
I challenge you to evolve a company. Let’s say you and a group of friends have a killer business idea. You create a startup. After a lot of elbow grease, you scrounge up enough funds to get the startup off the ground. Next, you aggressively market, hire, and expand enough to ensure your little company’s […]
