We bring you the sad news of a horrendous Ebay Bucks devaluation, Amex freezing accounts again, admire fog waves, go to Nepal for paragliding, Wyndham expands some more, look at the 13 most dangerous countries in the world and more!
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Not much happening…
The hits keep on coming, wow! ebay Bucks got cut in half, ouch!
If you got the 100k Amex Platinum card recently, you were warned. So, it appears, Amex is freezing MR accounts again. You should read the comments if this applies to you. And good luck. Fight, fight, fight for your right to party fly free!
Crazy laptop theft story aboard a Delta flight. I am not sure I can leave to go to the bathroom without taking my laptop bag with me from here on, wow! I hope this asshole got locked up!
What you can do with the new 60,000 Avianca LifeMiles Visa bonus. You will hear so much about this card when/if an affiliate link appears.
Wyndham just keeps buying! It just bought Fen Hotels, which manages the Esplendor Boutique and Dazzler hotel brands in the US. If you are keeping count, Wyndham now has 18 brands in its portfolio. Still has some ways to go to catch Marriott with its 30 brands.
At last, hotels are ditching nightstand bibles. The new religion is Wi-Fi! There is a great chart showing this in the article. With Marriott taking over SPG properties, I think the trend will…reverse!
Great personal finance post: Animal Spirits Can’t Be Modeled.
Over the last five months, small cap stocks are up 15%. The stocks of oil and gas producers are up 23%. The stocks of regional banks are up 40%. Do we believe that the fundamentals of thousands of small cap companies or hundreds of energy companies and banks have improved by 15, 23 or 40%? Of course we don’t. This is the role that sentiment plays in the stock market. There’s no equation. No formula.
Animal spirits cannot be modeled.
They can’t be foreseen or managed either. We cannot know for how long they’ll run on for or what might dissipate them. We can only accept that they are a part of the game, coming and going at uneven intervals, spreading joy and pain in their path.
Fellow hobbyist friend and blog reader Dima went paragliding in Nepal. What an epic pic!
Fog Waves for you. Because they are awesome. And you are awesome too. Photos by Nick Steinberg, check out his awesome photography HERE.
The 13 most dangerous countries in the world.
Wish me luck as I fly Spirit for the first time today! From Northwest Platinum Elite for several years…to flying Spirit…oh Lord, how far the mighty have fallen…lol!
And I leave you with this…
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Primo di tutti primi
The legend continues…
Applied and approved after calling in for an spg business card yesterday with your link. Can I share all the gold you provided in Scott’s castle?
Silver?!
U can imagine anything here in the TBB comments!
Buzz-
Good post today, interesting, yet also has enough meat to get me over the big hole Saturdays leave.
Hey, it’s not all bad: Today is the first Friday of the month and you know what that means, kids. Yessiree-triple UR points on dining using your Chase Sapphire Reserve card.
Oh-are you sure?
Never mind.
I miss First Friday, all that fake excitement to get readers 3 pts per dollar…..scratch that, pump them with more aff credit card links. Remember FTG…when they posted too early? Lol
Tell me what you can really do with LifeMiles and I’ll click on your affiliate link.
I could have told u in private but a Canadian credit card shilling blogger killed that one…
By the way, I learned yesterday that credit cards from Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is one of only TWO types of credit cards that can be used in CUBA. This was from an article in the NY Times that I found while booking a ticket there.
I do not have the link handy right now but this might be an added advantage of getting the new Avianca Life Miles card. I am sure going to look into it!
I can aee it now….When pumping bloggers get affiliate links for this card they will use this “It works in Cuba!” to sell it…Mark my words!
Does any airline award system allow for travel on Qatar from US to Australia via Doha?
AAdvantage does not. What about the other airline partners?
Dont know…Posted that on Twitter with link back to here
Avios 🙂
What will be the effect of Amazon paying out 3 Jetblue miles per $ spent on the bottom line of TBB INC?
hey! will ya pick up some soft pretzels for me, they sell them at the airport….and be sure to get yourself The Roast Pork Italian Sandwich at Tony Luke’s….tell Tony that I sent you, capisce
The effect will be to speed up the end of TBB.
Maybe it all started already, had some returns so in December this blog is MINUS 88 cents, WTF. If no clicks was demoralizing enough…losing on top of it is the pits!
I am going to use my free drink as Diamind in the Philadelphia Doubletree hotel to drown my sorrows…Maybe if I call Trump he can go to bat for me? Ooops, he is busy receiving calls from Taiwan lol
Really REALLY disappointed my investment portfolio is outed in a cartoon on your blog!
Hope the DT takes great care of you.
#TBBon
Lol on yr outed portfolio!
Got crappy standard room at first with connecting door and loud neighbors. I called abt it. They gave me an excellent suite! Lounge is no big deal, alcohol not free, boo!
Going parahawking is on my bucket list, so cool!!
Aileen’s crazy laptop theft story is a good public service article. Mistakes were made but happy ending. I wonder how many pimplinks would [TPG, MMS, OMAAT, VFTW, etc.] have put into the post if it had happened to their friend?
On a related note…is anyone else embarrassed and dismayed at the NeoRudeness that PE-Dump’s supporters seem newly empowered to spit out seemingly in every comment section everywhere? I get trolls, but this is getting ridiculous. I wish they’d go back to their nasty breitbart swamp and leave the adults alone.
Isn’t that what you have been doing here?
No, you are!
I love blog fights….my Alexa rankings go UP!!!!
This Boy DiFFPaul sounds like he is a proud member of Hillary’s Hypocrites and as for that cracker Ramsey we all know he is rude, crude and slightly retarded but that’s what we love about him.
You are adult? Dude you are what you complain about, they just have a different opinion that you do not like. Educate yourself!
To you, and Tex below, it has nothing to do with anyone’s package of opinions. It has to do with how that package is wrapped with rudeness, name-calling, and vitriol. If you respect and admire such behavior then it says a lot about you both.
If anyone reading this wants insight into these kinds of people, please go over to breitbart and sample several comment sections.
get to that safe space. I feel a trigger coming on
I agree that the “safe space” and “trigger” folks need to grow up.
Unfortunately so do you.
This fella? DiffPaul sounds like a proud, card carry member of Hillary’s Hypocrites and is possibly slightly retarded. Didn’t he defend the killing of cops here in the comment section of TBB a few weeks ago.
As for this Critter Ramsey, I have seen him write some pretty offensive, rude, crude and annoying things here at TBB just to get George’s Alexa ratings up and stir up trouble ( I luv that about him), I know for sure, that boy If fully retarded.
If I offended anyone with my language, forgive me for using the word crude.