Will Rogers Quote – Too Many People
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
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Miracle shot worth $75k
■ Michael Drysch last week had the kind of night basketball fans can only dream of. The 50-year-old computer technician had been selected to attempt a half-court shot during the Miami Heat-Detroit Pistons game. When Drysch threw his long hook shot high into the air, the crowd groaned, then screamed in delight as the ball went in. Superstar LeBron James […]
Read moreHidden Cash All Over NY And LA
Hidden Cash was a 2014 multi-city project founded by Jason Buzi and Yan Budman using the Twitter account of the same name. On May 22, 2014, Hidden Cash began hiding money in San Francisco, California and tweeting out clues using the handle. Followers were encouraged to tweet a photo of themselves with the money they found, and Hidden Cash retweeted […]
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Cartoon – Confirmation
Humphrey Bogart Quote – The Only Point In Making Money
“The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot to go to hell.” – Humphrey Bogart
Read morehonest taxi driver to the rescue
■ Brazilian taxi driver Adilson Luiz da Cruz often finds lost phones and forgotten umbrellas in his cab, but last week he hit the jackpot: 40 tickets to the World Cup. Despite his lifelong dream of going to the tournament, plus the thousands of dollars he could have earned by scalping the tickets, the cabbie didn’t hesitate to do the […]
Read moreCartoon – Can I Borrow Ten Bucks?
Why Poor People’s Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense
There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it’s rare to have a poor person actually […]
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