If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!How much money would you like to make per hour? $50? $100? $200?
Well… how about $5,479,452 an hour? That’s how much Carlos Slim made last year. His net worth increased by $20 billion in 2006, which is over $5 million [...]

Growing up, I was a kid that wanted to believe in the miraculous. I fantasized about being able to lift things with my mind, fighting off armies of alien invaders, and, most of all, transforming anything I wanted into gold.
“Why, wouldn’t it be something if I could transform that stick over there into solid gold,” [...]

How do some people in the upper echelons of business seem to make the right decision every single time?
Some of them seem to have the Midas touch, investing in the right people working at the right companies that dominate the right markets at the right time. Watch them long enough, and you’ll begin to think [...]

During college, only one class brought me close to tears… calculus.
Call me stupid, but it took me forever to start understanding how equations, graphs, and numbers all fit together. I spent 40 hours a week studying for that one class and nearly fell apart after every test.
Ultimately, I got through it, but I started to [...]

Why would anyone pay $1.3 million for a cell phone?
Only one reason: because, to them, the cell phone is more valuable than $1.3 million.
The Le Million, developed by Goldvish, is the most expensive cell phone in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. It’s handcrafted, constructed from 18 carat gold, and mounted [...]

Did you think slavery was over?
It’s not… not even in the United States.
True, the 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery in 1865 (although Mississippi neglected to ratify until 1995). It ended slavery in one of its most brutal, inhumane forms: chattel slavery, in which people are treated as nothing more than property.
Yet at least one type [...]

Being broke is a lot like being fat (I’ve been both).
If you’re 50 pounds overweight, you know you have a problem. Chances are, you also have plenty of ideas about how to do better, such as exercising more, going on a diet, or reducing your stress.
Yet you don’t do anything about it. Why? Because it’s [...]