When applying for a job, it’s easy to cast HR as your mortal enemy, or at least as an annoying hurdle to overcome. But partnering with HR will benefit you in the hiring process. Next time you are up for a job, consider doing these three things:
The 7 Best Cash-Back Credit Cards
Credit card issuers are still marketing aggressively for new customers, which means consumers — particularly those with good credit scores — have a lot of options if they’re in the market for a new card. Cards with rewards …
Study: Working on Wall Street Is Bad for Your Health
What does working 120 hours a week get you? Hopefully, a pretty good paycheck and bonus. According to a new study, though, there are other, less welcomed side effects that accompany a demanding, high-pressure job on Wall Street, …
The End of the Full-Time Salaried Job
In 1997, author Dan Pink noted in an article in Fast Company magazine that there were approximately 25 million “free agents” in the U.S. A free agent, much like in sports, is a person who does not have any commitments that …
‘Pole’ Tax: A $5-per-Customer Fee Proposed for Strip Clubs
Taxes are widely tacked onto spending related to alcohol, casino gambling, cigarettes and other “sins.” Should customers also have to pay a tax each time they enter a “gentleman’s club”?
Curious CapitalistEconomy & Policy
How Chinese Energy Politics Will Reshape the Middle East
China’s going to import a lot more oil from Iran and the Arab world over the next two decades. America will import far less. Those two facts will profoundly change the geopolitics of the Middle East.
CFPB Focuses on Debt Collection, Credit Reporting Companies
A big part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s potential to help consumers is its ability to supervise nonbank participants in the financial industry. This far-ranging swath of companies includes some that have been the subject of consumer complaints in the past, such as debt collectors and credit reporting agencies. Today, the …
Ohio School Uses Gift Cards to Bribe Kids to Attend Class
If you’re one those people who thinks kids today have it easy — maybe you had to walk uphill to school, both ways, in the snow — well, this is going to sound like another step towards societal decay: Students at one high school in Ohio are rewarded with Visa gift cards just for showing up.
Can a Website Help Reduce Your Property Taxes?
A company called ValueAppeal has been blanketing homeowners in Connecticut, Ohio, and New Jersey, among other places, with claims that it can help them appeal their home revaluations and reduce their property taxes—for a fee of …
Curious CapitalistManagement & Leadership
The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Is the celebrity CEO back? You might think so given the buzz in business schools these days over the leadership lessons to be learned from the late Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson’s best selling biography of the Apple founder gave us a uniquely anthropological view of Jobs, who was both bully and genius. That has a lot of folks in …
Most People Rarely—Or Never—Go to the Movies Nowadays
If you still go to the movies fairly regularly, you’re in the minority, according to a new survey.
Are Your iPhone Apps Taking Your Address Book Without Permission?
What started out as an inside-baseball squabble over the data that third-party applications pull from iPhones has turned into a federal case. Literally. Two lawmakers have sent Apple a letter demanding answers after news emerged …