Ways people make, keep and lose money, how work and business really operate, and the money stories that do not hold up. We describe and source; we never give financial advice.
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About half the world's workers are employees.
Read it →Most of these seven words are recent names for old practices. Quiet quitting and quiet firing came into wide use in 2022, career cushioning from late 2022 into 2023, and boreout, it is thought, from two books in 2007 and 2008. The word presenteeism is older, first recorded in 1930–35. The research behind them ranges from one firm's surveys to studies that disagree.
Each of these ten money words names one idea. Inflation is a general rise in prices; an interest rate is the price of borrowing or the reward for saving.
Interview questions mostly ask about you, about something you did, or about a situation that has not happened yet.
Studies support preparing well, by knowing your best alternative and setting a specific goal, and looking for deals that are better for both sides.
Digital products are files people design once and sell as downloads, such as planners, habit trackers, guided journals and budget templates.
An asset that earns over time is something you own or make once that can keep bringing in money, through rent, fees, royalties or sales.
A business model is how a business creates value and makes money from it.
A marketing strategy is a plan for how a business gets noticed, wins customers and keeps them.
A pricing strategy is a seller's plan for what to charge and how to show the price.
These seven habits range from keeping an emergency fund to keeping your income private.
In US data, job switchers have usually seen faster pay growth than stayers, though the gap moves and has even reversed.
Healthcare, food, water and utilities, construction, energy, transport, education and advertising all meet needs that do not go away.
The US dollar is used far beyond the United States because people trust it, oil is priced in it, central banks hold it, and its markets are large.
Both run campaigns paying per 1,000 views; Content Rewards also runs per-post, retainer and pool campaigns.
Official guides call paying up front to get work a warning sign; the clipping marketplaces we read are free to join.
Fair use lets people use copyrighted material without permission in some situations, but the Copyright Office says that, in the end, only a federal court can determine whether a use is fair.
Per-view clipping campaigns pay a rate for every 1,000 verified views, and the brand sets the rate.
Put the label in the clip itself, at the start, in plain words such as "Ad", and say it as well as show it.
Only clips that add something of yours, such as commentary or real editing, can qualify for these platforms' creator pay and recommendations.
The brand that runs each campaign sets the rate.
Several famous business rules say more than their sources do.
AI can now do much of the making in several of these ideas, such as product photos and simple websites.
Computers already do much of the routine work of trading, and that is not new.
A bull market is a stretch of rising prices; a bear market is a stretch of falling prices.
Market cycles are the uneven rises and falls that people label bull and bear markets, or expansions and recessions.
A stock is a share of ownership in a company; a tokenized stock is a blockchain token linked to a share.
The Bitcoin halving cuts the new coins paid for each block in half, every 210,000 blocks.
A tokenized stock is a blockchain token linked to a company's share.
Skin in the Game argues that whoever takes the upside of a decision should also carry its downside.
You track them through the official filings, public and free on US government sites.
AI property tools can estimate a home's value, but an automated value is an estimate, not an appraisal.
Freakonomics uses data to look for the incentives hidden behind everyday behaviour, from cheating teachers and sumo wrestlers to estate agents and a street gang.
Never Split the Difference argues that negotiation runs on emotion more than logic, so its author, a former FBI kidnapping negotiator, teaches listening first.
Simon Sinek's Start with Why argues that leaders and organisations inspire people by starting with why they exist, then how they work, then what they make.
Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek argues for measuring work by the time it buys, not only the money, in four steps: define, eliminate, automate, liberate.
The Lean Startup treats a new venture's plan as hypotheses to test: build, measure how customers respond, then pivot or persevere.
Housel argues that doing well with money depends more on behaviour, such as patience and room for error, than on how much you know.
Post-authenticity is our label for a tension on YouTube: AI tools are built into the platform, while its own payment rules reward original work.
MOASS stands for "Mother Of All Short Squeezes": a squeeze bigger than any before it.
The Art of War's famous line, III.18 in Giles's 1910 translation, says: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) argues that attitudes to money, not income, decide who gets rich, and that school does not teach money.
