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A point hoarder’s approach to booking domestic flights
In the post “Opportunistic hoarding vs. earning and burning,” I described my approach to earning points, miles, and cash back. I earn opportunistically based...
If spend were no object…
Suppose you could manufacture an unlimited amount of spend on your credit cards… What would you do? That is, suppose you could charge things...
Reasonable Redemption Values. A work in progress
Last week I suggested an approach for estimating “reasonable redemption values” of points and miles (please see “Pondering Reasonable Redemption Values”). The idea is...
Pondering Reasonable Redemption Values
Figuring out the value of airline miles or hotel points is difficult. In fact, I’ve argued in the past that it is impossible (see...
Kiva: loans, points, and miles
Making Kiva loans is one of my favorite ways to increase credit card spend. Kiva loans help me reach minimum spend requirements for new...
Best small business cards with annual fees
Update: Many of the benefits and bonuses listed below have expired and/or changed since 2013. Please see our Best Offers page for current best...
Questioning Delta loyalty
Over the past two years, Delta has been killing off its loyal following one paper cut at a time: No award changes within...
Bye bye Plastic Jungle
Today, Plastic Jungle shut down their shop. They sent an email to all of their customers announcing that they would no longer buy and...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: US Bank and others
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in...
Cash+ Update
In my recent post "Cash+ Experiments in Progress," I described some experiments I had launched with my new US Bank Cash+ credit card. ...
Cash+ Experiments in Progress
I recently signed up for the US Bank Cash+ credit card. The card is free, and it is very likely the best cash...
Fair Trading Prices
“Fair trading prices” are the prices by which it is relatively easy or common to acquire points and miles. More specifically, Fair Trading Prices...
The Family Mileage Run
A few days ago I took a look at my family's Delta MQM balance for the year. MQMs are Delta's "Medallion Qualifying Miles" (most...
How to maximize points and virtue through Kiva loans
ABOUT KIVA
Kiva is a nonprofit organization that provides micro-loans to enterprising individuals around the world so that they may earn their own way out...
