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Business
10 Products that Take the Fun Out of Everyday Life
Share Technology tends to make our lives easier and better. What would life be like if we…
Business
10 Reasons Working in an Office is Awful(ly Awesome)
Share There are fewer symbols of crushing defeat more overwhelming than a dimly-lit office with uncomfortable chairs, buzzing…
Economy
10 Wildly Successful Businesses Thriving Despite the Economy
Share While most of us are still trying to move past Ramen noodles and dry cereal, there are…
Economy
10 Ways Having a Baby Changes Your Finances
This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Share Having a child brings about…
Business
5 Most Ridiculously Expensive Funerals
Share The lives of celebrities are marked by the five Fs: fame, fortune and friggin’ fabulous funerals.…
Business
10 Amazing Scientific Advances That Came From Copying Nature
Share It’s not difficult to deduce that airplanes are based on birds — some of the better…
Business
10 Nasty Tricks Car Dealers Try to Pull on You
This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Share Buying a used car is…
Politics
10 Clearest Demands of Occupy Wall Street
Share Now that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests have somewhat died down due to reports of…
Politics
10 Biggest Threats to Internet Freedom Now That SOPA/PIPA is Dead
Share If you missed the blackout of thousands of sites across the Internet on January 18th,…
Business
10 Business Ideas that Immediately Crashed and Burned
Share We all know and accept that failure is a natural part of the business cycle. …
Business
5 Incredibly Valuable Artifacts That Were Destroyed
Share The fabric of our lives, naturally preserved artifacts, can be worth some serious dough —…
Business
5 Worst As Seen on TV Products
Share If you’ve ever been stuck at home during the day, The Price is Right has already…
Business
The 5 Phoniest Entrepreneurs
Share As American children, we are told that people are often wealthy because they are hard workers…
Business
10 Millionaires Who Lived on the Streets
There’s nothing quite as inspirational as a great rags-to-riches story. It makes us realize that human ingenuity and…
Politics
10 Businesses with a Stranglehold on Politics
We all know that “one person, one vote” is a fundamental tenet of democracy. Unfortunately, it seems that…