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“Some poor people see playing the lottery as their best opportunity for improving their financial situations, albeit wrongly so,” said the study’s lead author Emily Haisley, a doctoral student in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. “The hope of getting out of poverty encourages people to continue […]

Receipt for a single dinner in Zimbabwe: 1.2 billion something. The wonderful things you can see when your country’s financial system is mostly similar to the brown stuff that emerges out of George Bush’s sphincter each morning.
At least no prostitute there would ever be called a “10-dollar hooker.” Cheers.

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{Mad: Zimbabwe’s official asswipe}

Look around. The world’s tallest building is in Taipei, and will soon be in Dubai. Its largest publicly traded company is in Beijing. Its biggest refinery is being constructed in India. Its largest passenger airplane is built in Europe. The largest investment fund on the planet is in Abu Dhabi; the biggest movie industry is […]

Zimbabwe’s official asswipe: the 10-million-dollar bill.

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{Mad: Dear baby Jesus, please spank all those banks, hard}

Turns out, money can indeed buy happiness.
Research by two Wharton economists suggests that richer countries are happier than poorer ones and that as countries get richer their inhabitants become happier.
Their finding challenges the conventional wisdom of the past three decades, which held that higher national gross domestic product often did not translate into a greater […]

“Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it’s a dead issue. It’s gone. If you have a business model based on copyright, forget it.”
– Gerry Faulhaber, a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of […]

“Moneygami is origami made from currency,” and it’s especially so much fun to do when you have boatloads of the filthy lucre.

More “moneygami” pictures.

The Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device has a 12-button keyboard, a microprocessor and an embedded alphanumeric display, which promises to provide unprecedented security in phone and online banking transactions. How does it work? Let’s check it out:
A user can enter his or her secret PIN into the card’s keypad to receive a numeric passcode for […]