We bring you news of the Hyatt Milestones awards, a great Points to Miles transfer guide, we visit Tibet to learn about hoops, we learn of the suicide rates by profession, register for a Hilton Honors promotion, WSJ warning us that more devaluations are coming, amazing maps about tourism, a Nazi resort comes to life, learn about the life expectancy changes over the years, shake our heads at fading icon Aung San Suu Kyi, get you the only AA Advantage award chart that exists, find some bargain hotels to burn your Marriott Rewards points on, the latest blog buzz and more!
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Register for the new Hilton Honors promotion: Get 2,000 Bonus Points per stay, plus 10,000 Bonus Points every 5 stays or 10 nights (whichever comes first) from January 4 – May 5.
Nice resource page: Which points should you transfer to miles? How much does the transfer cost?
Hyatt had an announcement and pretty much every blog posted about it at the same time, yawn! Introducing some of the benefits earlier and making Globalist requalification tougher. 60 nights for Globalist Elite—>LOL.
Alarming article at the Wall Street Journal’s The Middle Seat Column: Are Your Frequent-Flier Miles About to Lose Value? Fear Delta’s basic economy awards, sad! [$ paywall]
EXCELLENT maps and tables here: Most & Least Touristy Countries [Interactive Maps & Full Data Sets].
Remember this place I posted about years ago? Looks like it is happening! A Nazi era resort town redeveloped and open for business.
Fading Icon. A story about Aung San Suu Kyi. Yeah, wtf happened. Story attempts to answer this.
Your personal finance fix: Investing Ideas That Changed My Life. This excerpt is brilliant:
Keeping money is harder than making money, because you can get rich by luck, but staying rich is almost always due to a series of good, hard decisions. The skills needed for getting rich and staying rich are often opposites—be bold and brave, then diversify and remain paranoid. Then there’s the mental momentum that getting rich creates that staying rich has to step in and try to block. It goes like this: The more successful you are at something, the more convinced you become that you’re doing it right. The more convinced you are that you’re doing it right, the less open you are to change. The less open you are to change, the more likely you are to trip in a world that changes all the time. I’d be more impressed with a Forbes list of billionaires ranked by longevity vs. amount.
What an interesting story, I would have never guessed that Tibet is going crazy for hoops.
These are some charts about suicide: Suicide Rates by Profession.
We have come a long way: Life expectancy in 1800, 1950 and 2015 (HT: ABC).
Now entering BLOG BUZZ territory. If you are not interested in the miles and points blog world this section is probably not for you, you have been warned 🙂
You may want to bookmark this: [The Only?] American Airlines AAdvantage Award Chart.
The Lazy Traveler continues to pound on them Marriott best cheap rewards hotels: In Europe (except Spain) and then some excellent finds in South Africa.
If you care: Total Rewards To Become Caesars Rewards. TBB is against gambling, so there!
Staff changes at the top at The Points Guy. Best of luck to amigo Julian. Anyone know what is going on? Does this journalist realize that what he will be doing is NOT actual journalism?
Point Me to the Plane has 8 writers. Points With a Crew is hiring another one. Live and Let’s Fly Team now has 3 in the team. TBB is Individual 1 lol.
Remember that Korean Air incident with the nuts? That One Mile at a Time made numerous posts about it? Well, amazingly, he made another one…just when you thought we did not have enough. Hey, it is always good to take a little break from boring trip reports and pumping credit cards.
Leave it to sites like PM&M and TPG to sell the 25k Amex Gold cards when I can refer you for 50k, smh. STILL? And here I am trying to get a click come my way, sad!
And I leave you with this…Attack the weekend like this kid!
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Good morning!
So are we great yet?
Bronze from the west coast!
Lets build the phucking wall but only after we get Trump on the other side of it and never let him in!
Thanks for the reader who used my Amazon link and supported the site to the tune of $1.19 yesterday. TPG management is so worried I am eating into their profits LOL.
Guys, starting Monday I will try to post every day and go out with a bang. Blog evolution ahead, the past several years have been so easy blogging away while markets were going up. Time to get serious and help more people instead of whining here. Blog will stay alive but blogging will be reduced from its current unsustainable pace. Having had no conversions in weeks sure has contributed to my latest thinking…
I think yesterday we realized that Trump is just not a phucking moron but a dangerous phucking moron.
Can someone refer me to the JimCramerAlert system so he can tell me where the bottom is so I can trade in and out…and do it again and again and get even more rich woohoo!
Crazy times
Stock market is down >10% in the last weeks/month. We’re facing a gov shut down, departure of “grown-up” from the administration, and most importantly, the US is catching up to the market volatility that the rest of the world has experienced for quite some time. Ok, perhaps MOST importantly Deutsche Bank may go bust.
Let’s say company A switches Its 401(k) plan provider and there’s a blackout period for ~2 months. What would you recommend? Stay the course and hope for the best? Or put everything in money market funds and reset everything in two months?
Buy Gold!
Had to throw this one out…Gold bugs always come out at these times.
You are asking an impossible question to answer. Nobody knows. Everyone has an opinion like everyone has an asshole 🙂 Or they are selling something like…Jim Cramer haha.
2 months blackout is on the longer span meter…it should not likely take this long. Is this a set date or do they hopefylly say…by xx date. Recent client was given 6 weeks blackout period…ended at about 4 weeks, fyi.
I am a buy and hold kind of guy…but there is a plan in place. And I l know clients’ goals AND risk tolerance levels…and what they can tolerate 🙂
2 months market timing….is market timing! Nobody does it well and consistently, there is no Market Timer Hall of Fame you know. It’s a crapshoot really.
My 2 cents
I really hope Ramsey is ok. His leader is determined to take the ship down. Remember the moron boasting about the stock market and 401ks…not a peep since November 12. With Mad Dog saying enoigh with this crazy shit…I think we are all realizing he is not just a phucking moron but a dangerously reckless phucking moron.
I blame Trump for…evolving my blog to a once a week Best Of Web or mega rant post.
Time to get back to work, enough playing around you guys, it’s been fun.
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