In Money for Something, we talk about viewing wealth in terms of the income it can generate. This handy rule can also be used in reverse!

I ran across an info-graphic visually demonstrating how much less Mitt Romney pays in taxes, as a percentage of his income. It's very deceptive. Can you figure out why?

Out of respect for the reader’s time, and with the objective of efficient learning, book authors should invest the effort to be concise.

One of the most enriching things I've done in my life has been living abroad, experiencing cultures and societies completely different from those in which I was raised. I have a proposal for a Twitter feature that could potentially provide similar benefits.

On my last trip to the US, I signed up for the Boingo roaming wifi service. When I later cancelled my account, they continued to charge me for months. Trying to resolve this, I uncovered what seems to be a systematic scam. Read the whole story.

Buying anything online from a European provider is likely to be a hair-pulling experience.

As professionals, we often believe the job-to-be-done is providing our customers with the tools and information to make decisions. In reality, we need to take it one step further.

Behavioral psychology tells us to check our investments very infrequently.

Back in 2010, I commented on Booking’s deceitful post-trip emails, and it looks like they’re still at it.

Pingdom, the website monitoring service we use at Makalu, just sent an email that seems more like puzzle than a notification.