Airdate: 2007-03-19 A baggage handler checks a boarding pass against a tag on T-Bag’s backpack which is locked inside a security cage. She confirms the names and pulls the bag out. She then hands it to another man who walks into the busy airport. The man stops at a kiosk where T-Bag is waiting. T-Bag […]
Ignore Your Credit Card’s Minimum Payment
Ignore Your Credit Card’s Minimum PaymentDoes this article’s headline sound like heresy? Does it smack of the worst financial advice of all time? That’s exactly what credit card companies hope you think. Consumers have been conditioned to pay attention to one thing when they open their credit card bills: the minimum payment due. But that […]
Foods Inspired by Royal Wedding
Would you be flattered or offended if a company made teabags topped by the torso of you and your betrothed? What about mass-market ice cream cake or doughnuts inspired by your wedding? In the case of some of the royal wedding-inspired foods that follow, it’s hard to tell whether the company is just trying to […]
Tribes Show Best Camels At Beauty Pageant
DUBAI (Reuters) – Ten golden-colored camels adorned with sparkling ornaments line up for the finale of a beauty contest in one of the UAE’s northern emirates, awaiting the selection of two proud winners. Gulf Arabs from across the region gather in a large sandy plot in Ajman to sit in for a four-hour competition, which […]
World gets peek at rare $100,000 bills
Money fair showcases $100,000 bills, rare coins In an economic downturn, it might be tough to get your head around this: rare sheets of $100,000 bills, fabulous gold treasures dating back to the California Gold Rush era, rare coins including those tied to the first stirrings for America’s independence and federal government securities worth more […]
Hollywood’s 10 Highest-Paid Actresses
Hollywood can be a tough town for women, but these 10 actresses manage to bring in the big bucks. To figure out earnings we talked to agents, managers, producers and lawyers to determine what stars earned as upfront and back-end pay from June 2009 to June 2010. We also looked at earnings from things like […]
What’s gone wrong with smartphones
If we are buying so many smartphones these days, why is the phone industry smarting so much? Just after the mid-point of 2010, a year marked by the re-emergence of Motorola (MOT) and design savvy of HTC (2498.TW), we are witnessing notable hardware departures from Microsoft (MSFT) and, gasp, Google (GOOG). Even Apple (AAPL), which […]
Weakest Property & Casualty in the U.S.
Data Date: Second Quarter 2009 Name State Total Assets ($) 1st Auto & Casualty Ins Co WI 29,811,501 1st Choice Auto Ins Co PA 10,497,267 AAA Mid-Atlantic Ins Co PA 24,720,306 AAASouthern New England Ins Co RI 61,618,240 AAATexas County Mutual Ins Co TX 61,308,797 ACA Financial Guaranty Corp MD 418,183,284 Academic Hlth Professionals Ins […]