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...dumb. According to Zweig, a senior writer at Money magazine, it isn't entirely your fault. The appetite for money is a hardwired instinct that bullies our rational thoughts. Humans crave money so intensely, he writes, that the brain scans of a cocaine addict and someone about to receive cash look an awful lot alike. The good news: with self-awareness and a basic understanding of the brain's mechanics, we can dupe the greatest financial foe of all--ourselves. --By Carolyn Sayre...
...into another foreigner. "The guy's name was Vlad," Devonshire-Ellis says. "He'd come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns out, they were his team of bodyguards. The North Koreans paid him in cash--1 million in U.S. dollars--and that's why he needed the bodyguards. He was comfortable doing business with the North Koreans. He said they always paid. But I must say, the guards with machine guns may be a bit much for the average Western businessman...
...reforms. And for foreign investors lured by what Devonshire-Ellis calls the "barren romance" of the place, North Korea holds obvious, if modest, attractions: a highly literate workforce with average daily wages that are about half what Chinese earn; abundant mineral resources, including coal, iron ore and gold; a cash-on-the-barrel economy; and virtually no competition. It's not hard to gain a first-mover advantage, after all, if everyone else is standing still...
Prize awarded to the winning couple--which amounted to five times the woman's weight in cash plus her weight in beer...
...grant money to fund alcoholic purchases—essentially terminates the UC’s up-front grant program, without which many student groups cannot survive. Student groups with high fixed costs and uncertain and delayed revenues (particularly arts groups and publications) rely heavily on the UC to provide cash before an event takes place. Without such funding, students must rely on large amounts of their own liquid cash to front costs for which reimbursement is uncertain. The vast majority of student groups cannot afford to do so and will likely have to scale back their activities dramatically. That...