We bring you the news of Citibank savings accounts earning AA miles, Coronavirus cruising, Huey Lewis tragedy, possibly break the news of TPG staff layoffs, rant about bloggers blogging about the credit cards in their wallets, how to visit Oslo and Svalbard, an awesome two pager handout with all the tax and other numbers you want, how nations decide to kill, hacking Google Maps, turtles having sex with robot sex doll turtles, review Ryanair flights, social mobility and GDP by country, a first hand account from a doctor in Wuhan fighting the new virus and more for freeeeeee!
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MILES & POINTS
You may be seeing blog posts with bloggers listing all of their travel rewards credit cards in their wallets. And you possibly go WTF is wrong with you paying thousands of dollars in annual fees! You must realize something. All the blogs you read are a business and since they blog about travel rewards credit cards they get to take all the annual fees as a business expense. And for each credit card their blogs sell to readers…well, it sure pays for all the annual fees lol. You do NOT have to be like them. Actually, you should NOT be like them. Do what makes sense for you, keep it sane and focus on more important things in life. And you should probably NOT have more than one premium travel rewards credit card (those are the ones with a $450 or now $550 annual fee).
I am really looking forward to this…assuming the interest rate and AA miles materialize as advertised! Citibank to Launch High Interest Online Savings Account for American Airlines Cardholders; 50,000 Miles Bonus, 25% Spend Bonus (Pilot Program Now Live). I think this is a terrific development to make AA credit cards more popular…assuming the interest rate is worth it as most accounts offering miles surely do not meet this condition #developing.
This has nothing to do with miles. If you wanted to find out what it is like to fly Ryanair, checkout part One and part Two of the thorough review by Head for Points. I have never flown Ryanair…does not look that bad actually.
TRAVEL
The cruises from hell! Coronavirus cruise ship hell devolves into total nightmare from New Jersey to Japan Every new case found resets the 14 day quarantine clock wow. I doubt these people will ever cruise again. And I think the whole travel industry is going to take a huge hit…
If you are going to Oslo in Norway, here are some tours you should consider. Well, lets stay in Norway and here are 30 Useful Things to Know Before You Visit Svalbard (Spitsbergen).
Best looking fire station found in Northern Italy, change my mind!
PERSONAL FINANCE
A great two page handout with tax and retirement related numbers, must click!
Amazing animation: Top Countries by GDP and Economic Components (1970-2017).
ODDZ & ENDZ
You remember Huey Lewis and the News band back in the 80s? Or was it 90s? This is a profile of Huey Lewis who is having some serious issues with his hearing. I found this read of great interest as I am currently having some issues with my right ear. I learned of Ménière’s disease, something I had never even heard of. To make things even more bizarre, my wife also has had some weird things going on in her right ear too and recent tests revealed she also has hearing loss. We communicate just great as long as we are speaking to each other’s left ear LOL. I am starting to think it may be the water or something. Enjoy this one: The Story of Huey Lewis Is Not a Tragedy.
Your deep foreign policy read of the week, I guarantee it: Qassem Suleimani and How Nations Decide to Kill.
This guy hacked Google Maps with his 99 cell phones, WOW! Taking street art to the next level I guess #respect.
Ranked: The Social Mobility of 82 Countries. I think Greece is much higher than I ever imagined!
This is an article about turtles having sex with 3D printed sex dolls and it will shock you! I could be doing daily pump posts like this but I don’t! Most interesting thing they found was that the males preferred the larger females, hmmmm.
This is a heartbreaking account what is like fighting the virus in the front lines in a Wuhan hospital: Life and death in a Wuhan coronavirus ICU.
BLOG BUZZ
We are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veterans of this fast imploding hobby and also a section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life because it helps me feel better about myself.
A tutorial on how to get into Flyertalk and some other online sources for Passive Ways to Find Cheap Business Class Flights.
There is a job opening at The Points Guy. Which of course is nothing new as the hiring spree there has been rivaling the rise in Tesla stock! But is this the reverse starting? An expert who got into the miles and points game after discovering TPG, phuck me!
If you have any more info about this please contact me. Friend tweeted at me “Is this the beginning of the end?” I guess time will tell…
Pointchaser was finally shut down by Wal Mart, lets rejoice not having to see play by play posts of her interactions in the establishment, hooray!
I have never watched the Oscars and I intend for this streak to continue.
And I leave you with this…Lol TBB style!
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Terrific links this morning.
Thank you.
If you say they are terrific who am I to argue? 🙂
Thanks and enjoy.
I just love my funny pic at the end woohoo!
Ill miss Pointchaser whining constantly about MS stuff and giving us blow by blow on netting $129 a week MSing. GTFOH with that smoke.
Bronze! For the Pacific North West! Dammit, George! I will never EVER look at the GIF/Photo at the bottom of your posts while drinking liquids again! Man, that hurts, even while I was still laughing.
Good reading here as usual. Thanks!
OMAAT tried to do a hotel & destination review on Penang this week and was ripped to shreds in the comments. 🙂
I like the comments and how defensive he was almost as much as I like the post on the Four Seasons George V yesterday that still has 0 comments.
It looks like comments were locked for that Four Seasons post since it’s just an ad for his husband’s commissions.
Good point. I skimmed it knowing I’m not paying for a luxury hotel in Paris and didn’t notice how many times the article suggested too contact Ford…
A little thing like a shutdown isn’t going to stop me from MS’ing or whining about it. Thanks for following, guys. It’s admirable how you can do that with a blog on your “ignore list.”
THANK YOU for firing Rick…I guess you do have some standards afterall
He’s not fired and my uncle isn’t from Kabul. You guys are a classy bunch. George must be proud.
Thanks for coming here and “telling us” a little shutdown never stop you from MS. Keep it up Girl! and yes, stop whining! 🙂
I always feel icky after reading those whining 1st World posts on IG FB and Twitter of what someone did to our perpetual victim. Glad to see she isnt taking it lying down anymore and now feels empowered to fire back at us angries.
Wasn’t talking to you “Ali” but if getting attention makes you feel a little less irrelevant, then consider this my daily act of kindness.
When you try to talk down to us, you talk to all the Angries. Consider this your lesson learned.
We wanted a doctor or a lawyer in our family…and all we got was a credit card sales person, so sad…
Got some really funny comments today you guys…
Never forget that credit is your most important asset…remember that? Oh yeah Rick and his following…in other news, Justin Bieber and the Kardashian have developed a following too!
Opening a Roth IRA for my daughter tomorrows, I am matching her contribution. We had a lunch today full of personal finance lessons, went over her paycheck, W2, 2019 income tax return and more. She was fully engaged, she needs to be at UofM business school lol.
Not sure what I will post on Wednesday, need a break. Friday post developing nicely with Oddz and Endz amazing links already…
Maybe I do a 69 reasons I love the Chase Sapphire Preferred card and sales commission ain’t one 🙂
Or…CSP vs Amex Platinum vs CSR vs C1 Venture Rewards vs _____ (intern to insert the next card with the highest sales commission).
Pump—>Profit—->Rinse—->Repeat
And then it hits me….I am no Brian Kelly or Gary Leff or Ben/Lucky or Rick, sad!
Big day at my Amazon link yesterday…almost reached $5 WOW!
I am surprised there’s no lower income limit to qualify for a Roth IRA.Your daughter should do some work for your contribution. How about driving her to WM and buy some MOs and let her write about the experience. You can then insert links to your favorite CC. Win-Win!
Brilliant ideas, thanks.
Wait, if you are Rick’s uncle this makes you how old? 🙂
So, how many uncles does she have? 🙂
Don’t you all get the feeling that JT got canned because he did something…bad?
I have no idea what to post tomorrow…and I need to finish several tax returns!
U guys like the “voices in my head” type posts? Maybe I go back to kind of share bestofweb type links that deserve to be singled out?
No idea, will see how the day goes…
Trump calling anyone a racists is just even more BS when you thought it could not get any worse LOL.
Mike is my favorite kind of racist. He actually follows thru on treating people of color worse than whites. But he apologized for it. He is like the Robert Byrd of the 2020 election. He used to be a complete racist but he said sorry so as a Democrat he gets to pretend like he never did it. #CantWait4TheNextCaucus
Mike is coming for you…
I hope anyway lol.
It is beyond ludicrous your only argument is the frisk thing…that’s it?
“I have apologized for taking too long to understand the impact of stop and frisk on Black and Latino communities. I inherited stop and frisk. In an effort to stop gun violence, it was overused. I cut it back by 95%. I should have cut it back sooner.”
A client quit his job as he is searching to find his life purpose (having too much money does that to you). And he applied to work at Mike Bloomberg’s campaign! And he told me “Hey, I am trying to find my life purpose!’. And I am like, so is this it? And he goes, “Hell yeah, Saving America!” LOL
I think Warren/Biden/Yang will implode very soon.
Why is this hot Tulsi still in it? Another Russian asset, omg!
Like the good Gov from VA “he apoligized”, Im sorry for being racist. Its a little naive to pretend that apologizing just sweeps what was done to people and their lives for years. Sanders wins NH weeeeeeeeeeeeeee, free everything for everyone.
more importantly credit card debt hits all time high. pump away my blogging buddies, pump away.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-card-debt-in-u-s-rises-to-record-930-billion-11581442140
With employment rate so low and running an annual federal deficit of only $1Trillion we should Be enough money for all of us to drink champagne and snort cocaine.
lying, dog-faced pony soldier making up election results in New Hampshire. Where’s Obama when you need him?