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Mon, Oct 6th, 2008 | 7:59pm | Submitted by niraj
60 Minutes did a story on the "Shadow Market" that caused the financial meltdown we're in now, and a lot of it is really interesting and more detailed than the usual stories that have been circulating. I especially love how the CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association acts like a...
Mon, Oct 6th, 2008 | 3:30pm | Submitted by niraj
At a time where the media in the US has been going crazy about the credit crisis and stock market, it's interesting to note that the EU looks like it may face even more difficulty as it's become more obvious that the financial situation is a global problem.
In the case of the EU, there's a...
Wed, May 21st, 2008 | 1:40pm | Submitted by niraj
Yes, the US banknotes have gradually gone through a redesign that's added some color and changed some features on the notes, but a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that the U.S. Treasury is discriminating against visually impaired people by not offering any significant features that could help...
Wed, Feb 20th, 2008 | 12:08pm | Submitted by niraj
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What is going on with the new $5 bills? Like the redesigned $50, $20, and $10, it's got a bunch of colors on it, and several changes with new security features. However, unlike the previous redesigns, this one has a giant purple 5 on the back of it that makes the whole thing look counterfeit...
Mon, Mar 12th, 2007 | 10:28am | Submitted by niraj
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Looks like online betting site PicksPal is beating Vegas odds on sports bets. The site lets users bet against each other for fun on a variety of things like the spread, individual player points, number of fouls/penalties in a game, etc...all for fun - no money changes hands.
It's all for fun,...
Tue, Jul 25th, 2006 | 1:06pm | Submitted by niraj
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There's an article about how grocery stores are losing potential revenue through self-checkouts. It's because without having to stand around waiting for someone to scan all your crap, you're not as tempted to buy impulse items like magazines and candy.
That's the upshot of research being...
Sat, Nov 26th, 2005 | 7:24pm | Submitted by niraj
According to impactlab.com, two cleaning ladies used an industrial vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of slot machines. They managed to get "hundreds of thousands of pounds" from a Slovenian casino. Managers noticed money started disappearing after the casino closed. Since they are having...
Tue, Aug 9th, 2005 | 2:56pm | Submitted by niraj
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A bank was robbed in Brazil in much the same manner as a movie like The Ladykillers or, to a lesser extent, The Italian Job. (And those were both remakes, so the idea's been publicized for a while now) $67.8 million was stolen from a bank using an underground tunnel leading from a house across the...
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