April 30, 2008
Vulgar Ticker Symbols
CRCAM Alpes Provence, which is a French regional bank (Ticker symbol CRAP). The bank provides financial and insurance products for students, farmers, small businesses, and local communities.
9 other Vulgar Ticker Symbols, including TIT, DIC, HOEN, etc.
Tech support from the 1930s: How to use a telephone
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March 16, 2008
A Bear in the woods
"...You don’t have to get in line to get ahead. If you're really good at what you do, you probably have a lot of choices when it comes to taking the next step in (or starting) your career. But if you can tackle complex challenges with creative solutions, and want to be able to make your mark quickly regardless of title or tenure, we think your only real choice is pretty clear - experience the Bear Stearns difference..."
Trading lesson no. 1 – Only buy stocks when they approach 0
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March 11, 2008
Cash advances
Within two minutes of this AFP photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of Reliant stadium to receive a call from MasterCard asking about cash advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile using her card, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including - ironically - camping gear.
In September 2005, the Agence France Presse (AFP) news agency distributed a series of photographs showing Hurricane Katrina evacuee Latesha Vinnett and her daughter, Mychal Boykins, at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas. Ms. Vinnett had just received one of the many $2000 debit cards issued to Katrina evacuees by the Red Cross, which she happily displayed for the camera — providing a full view of the debit card's number and expiration date. The photos were carried by a number of news outlets (such as Yahoo! News) or published as an accompaniment to news articles about Hurricane Katrina, thereby broadcasting a supposedly valid debit card number to millions of viewers
A very hi-res image of the 100 dollar bill. (Click to biggify. From Dooby Brain)
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March 01, 2008
How Do You Count
Somebody dumped tons of money bills on the field
Hundreds of Bank logos
"There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians. There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?"
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February 05, 2008
Fighting corruption in India
In order to fight corruption in India, some NGO has printed over 200,000 zero rupee currency note that resemble Indian currency and has begun distributing them around the country. It is asking people to give the notes to anyone demanding a bribe
Lend me $10, but give me only half of it…
French Trader Was Forced to Work 30 Hours a Week
Financial Clutter, What To Keep And What To Get Rid Of
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January 21, 2008
Change for the better
Twenty-six years after Ronald Reagan first set his controversial fiscal policies into motion, the deceased president's massive tax cuts for the ultrarich at last trickled all the way down to deliver their bounty, in the form of a $10 bonus, to Hazelwood, MO car-wash attendant Frank Kellener
(From the side bar of the source above, see also: Promoting racial equality in central Florida)
$1,000,000 in change @ Penny Harvest in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The New Bush Coin
Update: Paul Krugman on Reaganomics today at The NYT Blog
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November 23, 2007
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears
If I Ever Got To Be Really Really Rich Here's One Of The Things I'd Want To Do. (Sounds like Jack Handey)
Washington, DC on $85 a Day. The US $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes feature the Lincoln Memorial, US Treasury, White House and Capitol respectively
People in Pakistan give money for Holy War
Now You Can Make The Money Come To YOU -The Money Mantra
Origami made with paper currencies from around the world
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October 25, 2007
I received the following email -
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $268.32. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
(Unfortunately, the link they provide goes overseas to Russia)...
How to make your student credit card 40,000 times cooler. Pimp your card
A model of Scrooge McDuck's money bin, built by me, using blueprints created by the great Don Rosa and Dan Shane
How to turn two $1 dollar bills into one $2 dollar bills. Two Dollar Bill Trick Revealed
Funny Money: Strange currencies of the world
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October 03, 2007
Laundry day
Canadians don't know how to deface their own currency. Mr. Spock on the old Canadian 5
Original stock certificates for companies that don’t exist anymore. Hit refresh on the home page to get a randomized set of six new designs. (From Jonson Blog)
A collection of online paycheck calculators
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September 14, 2007
Legal tenders
"We print the finest fake ATM receipts available, with your custom information on them.
Tired of being used as a drink-dispenser? Maybe if you were rich you’d have more luck.
Ever wanted people to think you’re rich? Just casually let them see your massive bank balance on one of our fake ATM receipts, with your name right on it
Custom Fake ATM Receipts. Available as a One Year Supply or as a One Month Supply..."
A vast stash of American money from raid of drug dealer's house in Mexico
American currency exhibit thru history
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August 22, 2007
“I’m a millionaire and I still pick up pennies off the sidewalk”
“I lost my job 3 weeks ago and I still haven’t told my wife.” Photo Essay - 25 Money Confessions
Would you trust this ATM?
Billionaires usually have their pick of brides and often chose to marry some of the world's most beautiful and glamorous women. In pictures: Wives Of The Billionaires
(Cartoon above from Mister Boffo, August 15, 2007. Click to enlarge)
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July 24, 2007
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted
The Power of Money
Why did the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid? On 23 August 1994, the K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burnt one million pounds sterling in cash on the Scottish island of Jura. This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s. The duo have never fully explained their motivations for the burning….
More Money Origami by an artist named orudorumagi11 at Deviant Art. (From Geekologie)
The Wealthiest Americans Ever (A Flash-based map at the NYT)
The World’s Worst Currencies. For example, the Somali shilling which was 1,387.77 SOS per US$1 in June 2007
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June 17, 2007
Gangster Bankroll
The money programme. (And other wall-to-wall Monty Python videos)
How to Create a Gangster Bankroll
How to make a wallet made out of cash
U.S. Mint Gears Up To Issue Commemorative County Pennies
Though my husband is rich, he’s so cheap!
He’s so chintzy with money, I weep.
Tried to get him to spend
But he simply won’t bend—
Arms too short? Or his pockets too deep?
Limerick Writing Contest With Money Prizes at Mad Kane… and the Topic Is…Money!
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May 06, 2007
Investment advice
New Instant Lottery Game Features Three Ways To Win, 19,839,947 Ways To Lose
Investment advice from Will Rogers: “Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it”
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March 24, 2007
The gift of money
Cruel but true chart: Homelessness by income
Whenever I want a new toy my wife asks me, “how are you going to pay for this?” To which I respond, “With my jug of coins of course.” This trick has worked many times but this time she’s really making me cash them in: Cashing out the jug
In Hong Kong, the first plastic banknotes will be issued on a trial basis this year
Euro Bill Tracker, like the old Where’s George
One two three four five six seven
All good children go to heaven-
Songfacts about The Beatles’ You Never Give Me Your Money:
Seen everywhere: Marc Sky, the Dollar artist
How one lucky winner spent his new-found fortune: Taking home the jackpot
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February 22, 2007
Dream Big
Magic! How to Turn $1 Into $100
Dream bigger - The jackpot this week is $125MM
Digital I-Piggy and I-Panda banks
The Money Maker - A conversation with a Dutch designer of bank notes
Original Income Tax Form from 1913
Zimbabwe on the brink of total collapse with 1,600% inflation
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January 14, 2007
American Bull
Raping the Wall Street Bull. Apparently, few are taking pictures of the bull’s head, but there’s a long line of tourists near the bull’s balls
Hyperinflation banknotes from countries around the world
Noted Individuals Who Have Experienced Homelessness
Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation - Coin and Conscience
Dream dollars and play money collecting. (From an interview with play money collector Jack Phillips)
How I slipped from the middle class into near poverty
By the way, it's National DeLurking Week 2007, so leave a comment, dammit
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December 22, 2006
Manga biography of Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett: An Illustrated Biography of the World’s Most Successful Investor. (From Journalista)
…During WW2 the federal government stamped Hawaiian dollars in case the Japanese ever occupied the state
Naked shorts: The possible loss is theoretically UNLIMITED
Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One. (From Field Guide to the U.S. Economy)
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November 24, 2006
In God We Trust
From a television coin with a moving image to odd-shaped Zambian coins and more at Unusual coins. (From Pennylicious)
Home of the world's largest collection of 1968 pennies
An online gallery of Colonial American Currency
$8 billion in Chinese Hell money
Stuff that people write on money
Spending Godless Money. Use a red pen or stamp to "de-God" all of your paper money. It's fun. It's easy
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October 26, 2006
Global Century Investments
* We're entering the fourth year of a down stock market. Is it time to sell yet?
* Have we hit bottom yet?
* What can you tell small investors who are really starting to worry?
Straight Talk About Today's Markets
The Johnny Cash Prepaid Card is among the first celebrity-branded debit card programs to be launched. "We are excited to bring the legend of Johnny Cash to our card product line and believe that this marks another milestone in the prepaid card industry"
If you're interested in getting rich, I'm going to give you the simplest formula for doing so. In fact, if you follow it you're virtually guaranteed to build enough wealth to get you into the top 5% of society. The easiest way to get rich
Kazakh Bank Gets Its Own Name Wrong
(Pix above from ViceLand)
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September 17, 2006
How to Get Rich
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Josh Spear’s Money Clip Credit Card. (From A Whole Lotta Nothing)
Chart of the Dow Jones industrial average since the Great Depression
A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars." Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely
(Piggy bank above from Everything And Nothing)
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August 27, 2006
Fontos képek!
This clear lucite case about the size of a refrigerator holds one million pennies and is currently stored at the Jewish Community Center as part of a Holocaust memorial project. (More by Kim Moser: Test your knowledge of Russian and East German culture as seen through their postage stamps, and The Largest Collection of Chopstick Wrappers on the Internet)
My local ATM has become aggressively informal. At first it was just small things, like saying "Sure" and "No, thanks" instead of "yes" and "no" when asking if I want a receipt. But now it's completely out of control. Now it's all, "Howdie-ho, neighbor! Hot enough for ya? Well golly gee willikers, what can I do you for?"
Fontos képek! Photos of faces matched to folded currency
The golden Throne! See a gallery of ordinary household items made of the finest gold
Spam Stock Tracker - Tracking penny stocks, hot stock tips and other stock scams coming from SPAM can be fun! Just how much can you lose? (Close to 100%)
Autopsy Photos of a Dot-Com: The mp3.com Liquidation Photos
My friends are wealthy. I am not. Why do I feel ashamed and inadequate?
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August 12, 2006
Being so Po you can’t effort the letters Or
"Ordeal by Cheque" by Walter Crue [PDF], a short story that's written entirely in the form of personal checks. (From Metafilter)
Money Keloid. Warning: Body Modification!
Most of us do not know how expensive it is to be poor. If you’re rich, you might want to stay that way. It’s a whole lot cheaper than being poor. Could You Afford to be Poor? By the author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened. Fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. An article by publishing tycoon Felix Dennis
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July 17, 2006
"Will you drill?"
Got Gas Money? Gerard Van der Leun explains why the very rich will not allow drilling for oil next to their property
One way to check a counterfeit and Egg Money, 50 Yuan note, built in eggs
The nut tree. A poem about money by David Boyle
Photographer Sues After his Picture Appears On Burundi Currency
Are local currencies like ‘Bay Bucks’ legal?
An old beggar
Another Ask MeFi thread: I'm Inheriting $100,000.00 - Now What??
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June 11, 2006
Conspicuous consumption
Curious about what you can expect at the millionaire fair? Find out more by taking a look at the photo gallery. (What a great venue to sell Bugatis & hair transplants to the Nouveau Riche …)
50 ways to show that you have too much money. From Bono Flying his hat first class ($1,700) to Elton John’s $419,000 flower bill
How to leave a 5 dollar tip that looks like a spider. (From Bike riding donut guy)
My 1st Million At 33 (and my $2M at 28 I didn’t cash)
In case you get a suitcase, How much does a dollar bill weigh? or how much does a million...
Be Sure to Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die
Zimbabwe introduces $100,000 note. Other countries that suffered from hyperinflation
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May 25, 2006
It’s your dough
“I’m still sore from last night” and other Things to write on check memos. When writing a check for an unpleasant bill, there are subtle things you can do to amuse yourself, while confusing those on the receiving end
One Dollar by Jean-Luc Cornec. More Graffiti Currency at “Bad Example”
Beautiful Currency Collages by C. K. Wilde
Similarly, Money art by Justine Smith. (From Neatorama)
Nick Jackson shows how to double your money in 2 minutes
“A personal finance blog of my journey to reach my goal of $2 million + the value of my primary residence”
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April 10, 2006
How To Cheat On Your Taxes
Give Us All Your Money - Simple – Direct – Effective
How To Cheat On Your Taxes by Avery Ant. For those Doing their taxes
The secret history of the credit card. Eight things a credit card user should know...and much more you probably don't. (From Caught in between)
The five kinds of rich people. Larry Samuel has thus classified American millionaires into five archetypes, each with its own Passion Points, consuming habits, and style
How to get rich. A Talk by Jared Diamond. Why, within Eurasia, was it Europeans who conquered the world and colonized other people, rather than the Chinese or the people of India or the Middle East?
Can I have change for that? Man busted with billion dollar bills
What Could America Do With $500 Billion? Each month, the best alternative option to Iraq war spending will receive $50 US. At the end of the Iraq war, by vote, the best entry will receive $500 US
Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time. Yes, Most billionaires are Virgo
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Stories about Money Here
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March 08, 2006
Get out of debt now!
A unique program for managing your debt: Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
Debt Visualizer with a credit card calculator
"Money is difficult. We are barely making it each month, which is a source of embarassment and shame, given our gross income..." A painful question asked on Metafilter
A little Gift Box is made from two dollar bills
Berkshire Hathaway’s Shareholder Letters (1977-2005)
Print Your Own Monopoly Money. The more money you have, the easier it is to own it all - so print your own
Invest in your breasts: Credit card company offers free boob job with every sign-up
Where to find the de-commisioned 50 franc note with Antoine Saint-Exupery on it?
The Futures Of Money by Bruce Sterling. “Money is a form of computation: As money is transferred from one eager owner to another, it computes the value of goods and services”
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January 29, 2006
Fake bank database
Fake Banks are the infrastructure of advance fee fraud scams. By posing as a legitimate financial institution, a bank site can adds credibility to the story of a scammer. For example, Mariam Abacha might have deposited her millions of dollars with this "bank", and puts you in touch with the "banker" there to help transfer the money. Then, he is the one who will charge fees for various procedures, licenses, certificates, and so on
The Rich Jerk: “Lets get something straight. I am a jerk. I am obnoxious. I am lazy. And I don’t care, because I am FILTHY RICH. I am much too important to even be sitting here writing this right now. So I'll keep it short. I make several million dollars every year on the internet, doing almost nothing. Heard that before? Well you can see proof of my earnings here. Have you seen proof like that anywhere else? Didn't think so. Do you make that much money? Didn't think so…”
CircleLending, a loan administration company that provides services for managing financial transactions between private parties. (From a question on Metafilter about lending money to a friend or a relative)
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr., as living example that Sitting on the board of directors for a Fortune 500 company must be an easy job
Wolfowitz under fire at the helm of The World Bank
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December 25, 2005
Growing on trees
Money doesn’t grow on trees - Yes, it does
50 Smartest things to do with your money: How to earn more, save more, invest better, spend wisely & protect your family
Uber Premium. luxury is about status (consuming the best or the most is one of the few surefire ways to establish one's status in a mature consumer society), and it's about fat margins (as consumers are willing to pay just about anything for two things: sex and status)
Don Lepre’s Ultimate Road to Riches
Questions for Matthew Lesko, the question-mark-man:
Q: Who is your target demographic?
A: People who have $40
“I'd rather be rich than stupid.” How many people in the US earn over $25 million a year in pre-tax income?
Can money buy happiness?
SE Asia Expenses. Dealing with new currencies is fun and frustrating, but I love the magical moment when I think to myself: "Well, then, how many Ringgits or Zlotych (currency converter) is this US$20." After about 2 or 2.5 weeks of mugging around, local currency becomes second nature. Even though they seem like strange and king-sized bills, reverting back to the good ole' USD happens pretty fast, though. (From Maya’s Micronomicon)
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November 07, 2005
Building wealth
Get Rich Slowly, an excellent piece by J.D. Roth, about achieving financial independence. “To prepare to build wealth, one must first eliminate debt, reduce spending, and increase earnings... There are many ways to approach debt elimination; the key is to use the one that actually works for you. All the books agree on this: cut up your credit cards. Get rid of them... Next, pay off your debts. All of them… The final phase is to increase your income… How do you (do that)? Become better educated so that your job skills are more marketable. Work harder, and smarter, at your current job so that you qualify for raises and promotions. Change careers. Find a way to make a hobby profitable…” (Good comments too)
During World War 2 the German army issued specific money for their prisoners of war camps and in some of the Ghettos and concentration camps. (From the historic German Paper Money site)
Fire your bank - “Do I know you?” and Avery Ant’s rant