Branded cards offer the best of both worlds — cash back for spending on specific brands and the credit card company’s conventional bonus categories. Capital One’s co-branded store cards are more attractive because of easy terms and lower fees than other issuers. So, what stores use Capital One for their branded credit cards? Keep reading […]
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The companion ticket is an elite perk for travel rewards members. But is it worth it? Find out what goes into redeeming your companion tickets with American Express.
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The cost of good health is well into the thousands of dollars per year once you consider factors like healthy food, supplement spending, fitness spending, health insurance costs, and the costs of healthcare.
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Professional sports teams are enormously profitable, but do they help the local economies where they play? Well, sometimes but when it comes to publicly subsidized stadiums, taxpayers usually lose.
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Book Review: Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, by Vivek Ramaswamy. New York: Center Street/Hachette Book Group, 2022. 275 pp. $29.00. Nation of Victims is a strange book. By turns heartwarming anecdote, personal confession, history lesson, economics treatise, policy position paper, potted history of the highlights […]
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Once you've narrowed down your list of business schools, it's time to start preparing applications. Before you dive into this challenging process, make sure you avoid these common application mistakes.
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Thinking about going to business school but not sure the MBA is the right move for you? Consider these 10 benefits of earning an accredited MBA as you make this important decision.
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Could the supplement industry do better? The biggest issues in the supplement industry include contamination, potential health risks, and regulation concerns.
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Have you ever wondered about the size and growth of the different markets that make up the fitness industry? Let's dig into today's fitness industry and sports nutritional supplements industry.
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To truly grasp the size and growth of the pharmaceutical market, we need to dig deep into sales revenue amounts and changes over time and projections based on years of past market data, as well as the major growth factors and challenges facing the industry today.
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Which professional sport offers the most lucrative contracts to top contenders? If the first names that come to mind are Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks, baseball players with unbeatable batting accuracy, or top-scoring basketball stars, you’re in for a surprise. In fact, we’re talking about soccer, the sport that is known in most of the world as […]
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Editor’s Preface: With the breakout success of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ FIXER UPPER program, flipped homes look more appealing than ever. Today’s homebuyers are likely to let their guard down when purchasing flipped houses, and people investing in house flipping may not appreciate the importance of using contractors that know what they’re doing and have […]
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What does it mean to think globally and act locally? This oft-quoted concept calls on us to consider the health of the planet and all of its inhabitants even in the smallest and most immediate actions. In other words, when you act to support your local economy, community, and culture, you are making important contributions to improvements in living standards, sustainability, and economic fairness the world over.
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The chances of striking it rich with the purchase of a lottery ticket are quite low indeed. But that doesn't mean it’s impossible. Perhaps even more encouraging—there are actually a few ways that you can improve your chances of winning. While we wouldn’t necessarily advise basing your future financial plans on buying the proverbial golden ticket, we recognize that playing the lottery can be fun. And there are steps you can take to improve your odds of winning the lottery. For most people, this will generally mean improving from terrible odds to merely bad odds. But hey, at least it’s something.
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There are many possible gifts that are generous expressions of love: for instance, twelve drummers drumming (kind of noisy), or a partridge in a pear tree (does that make a good meal?). But those with little to no budgetary limits might be inclined to think (though lesser mortals know they’re wrong) that nothing says “I […]
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The “side hustle” is one of the great phenomena of the Internet age. Now that we all have access to this wide world of engagement, communication, and commerce, we also have access to a certain type of economic and professional freedom that never previously existed. That doesn’t mean we can all just turn around and quit our day jobs in a blaze of digitally-liberated glory. But it does mean each of us has the chance to explore a side hustle—a personal pursuit that earns you a few extra dollars while fulfilling something within you that can’t be met by the responsibilities of your day job.
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Does salary correlate with IQ? And if so, what conclusions can we draw about this correlation? The first question is pretty straightforward. In the simplest terms, yes, there is a connection between IQ and salary. But...
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