by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the we-enjoy-taking-your-money dept. Joel Runyon recounts a tale that will be familiar to many people who have bought secondhand smartphones. After his old dumbphone died a few months ago, Runyon picked up a used iPhone. He just needed it for basic phone...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
In a few weeks the MPAA, RIAA and five major U.S. Internet providers will start to warn BitTorrent pirates. The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are told that their behavior is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the go-big-or-go-home dept. An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from an article at Bloomberg giving an inside look at how the Libor scandal happened: “Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
Antigua and Barbuda is a small country in the Caribbean that for years had a flourishing gambling industry. A few years ago 5% of all Antiguans worked at gambling related companies. However, when the U.S. prevented the island from accessing their market the industry...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY
If you received a raise tomorrow, what would you do with the extra money? Most people would celebrate—maybe with a nice dinner out or a great bottle of wine, which you deserve. However, earning more should not always change your current or long-term spending habits....
