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We hear a lot of bad stories about cheap tippers and even cruel tippers, but it’s a lot rarer to hear about excessive and genuinely kind tippers. Fortunately, such people are out there.

Jill Harness






President Obama recently suggested the retirement of the penny as a way of reducing the federal budget, since it costs nearly two and a half times its face value to mint. While that may not happen any time soon, it’s still interesting to look at some othe

M Asher Cantrell


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If you ever find yourself in a Brewster’s Millions situation and have to burn through a fortune in a hurry, then all you need are this article, a few plane tickets and an empty stomach. (It never hurts to plan for the unexpected.)

Jill Harness




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Nothing like a train heist to grab out attention. There's a reason they called it the Wild West.

David K. Israel
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A lot of people assume that it's just the way that coins smell, and the odor is rubbing off on their hands, but you're not smelling the metal so much as you're smelling yourself.

Matt Soniak