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7 Mistakes to avoid with Money

02.18.2024 · Posted in Writing and Speaking

7 Mistakes to avoid with Money “There are way ways to learn, the hard way, when you learn from your own mistakes, the easy way, when you learn from the mistakes of others, or the tragic way, you never learn and keep making the same mistakes over and over again.”-Brian Houston, Australian televangelist. Making mistakes ...

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Financial Windfalls

09.28.2023 · Posted in Writing and Speaking

Financial Windfalls What it is Written by R. A. Stewart A windfall is a large amount of money you didn’t expect to receive. It could be $200, $1000, and more. It is an amount of money which was not budgeted for because it arrived unexpectedly. Unless you have mastered the art of financial discipline there ...

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Dow jumps over 11% in largest one-day gain since 1933

Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its largest gain in a single day since 1933.

From the Wall Street Journal:

U.S. stocks rallied sharply Tuesday, with the Dow surging to its biggest one-day gain in more than 85 years on signs that lawmakers and the Trump administration were nearing a deal on a giant stimulus ...

Coronavirus and oil shocks sink world financial markets

Another grim Monday in the financial markets, as the outbreak of deadly coronavirus around the world spreads fear, disruption, and economic hardship.

The number of people around the world who are infected with coronavirus is now over 110,000, and over 3,800 have died, according to a Reuters tally of government announcements.

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Billionaire Bloomberg won’t have to disclose finances until late March

“What does this guy worth $60 billion own, who wants to be president?”

Memelord and presidential hopeful Michael “throw them up against the wall” Bloomberg will not be required to publicly disclose his finances until late March, “well after voters in more than a dozen states take to the polls on Super Tuesday,” reports ...

Solved: mystery of random cash rolls appearing on sidewalks in UK village

In November, we posted that mysterious rolls of cash were showing up on sidewalks in the small English village of Blackhall Colliery, on the North Sea coast of County Durham. In the last 5 years, around US$30,000 had been found in twelve rolls. Now, the mystery has been solved. Two anonymous individuals have been ...

Frustrated game devs automated the production of 1,500 terrible slot machine apps and actually made money

Last March, game devs Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott gave a presentation at the Game Developers Conference called "1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality in which they described how their own dissatisfaction with falling revenues from mobile app stores led them to muse about bulk-creating ****** apps and ...

PayPal pauses payouts to PornHub **** models

PayPal on Thursday says it has halted payment support for models with PornHub, the online adult site, after Paypal says it found that Pornhub made certain payments without PayPal's permission.

“Following a review, we have discovered that PornHub has made certain business payments through PayPal without seeking our permission. We have taken action to stop ...

Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society

Technically, it's illegal for Chinese merchants to refuse payment in cash, but this rule is hardly ever enforced, and China has been sprinting to a cashless society that requires mobile devices -- not credit-cards -- to effect payments, even to street hawkers.

This has lots of implications for privacy, surveillance, taxation, and fairness, but in the ...