Getting a US Bank Altitude Card May Be Easier Than You Think
We were debating recently on the podcast what the best all-around travel rewards credit card is these days. The one card to get if you’re going to get just one.
PSA: Avoid the Extrabux Shopping Portal
You may have noticed the Extrabux shopping portal come up in Cashback Monitor listings. In this Extrabux portal review I’m going to describe my experience using the service and t..
Means-testing and Appalachian roots
In October, 2017, the Washington Post published a very strange series of articles about the recipients of disability benefits in the United States. The entire series is worth rea..
Episode 13 & 14: A Deep Dive into American Express 5 Card Strategies
We’ve got a special “double episode” of the No Annual Fee version of the Milenomics² Podcast this week. In this episode we do a deep dive into our personal card
Episode 100 – Ice castles in Harbin, China and mistake fares with Becky Pokora
Episode Description
Becky Pokora from sightDOING{ drops by to help us celebrate our 100th episode! We discuss her experience with the Hong Kong Airlines mistake business class fa..
Alaska Miles Award Charts and Award Map
When going to make a new Alaska Miles Award Chart, I ran into a problem unique to Alaska Miles – Alaska’s Award Chart is different for each one of their
Top-tier Hilton properties eligible for the Aspire resort credit
Thanks to lifecycle effects I haven’t taken as many sprawling international vacations as I did when my life was governed by the academic calendar, which has had the ancillary eff..
Bank Points Just Got a Little Harder to Redeem
Connexions Loyalty is a company that banks partner with to operate travel rewards redemptions. Programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and City National Bank ..
Bank Points Just Got a Little Harder to Redeem
Connexions Loyalty is a company that banks partner with to operate travel rewards redemptions. Programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and City National Bank ..
Learning to love Baumol’s cost disease
Baumol’s cost disease is one of the simplest ideas in economic theory, but I experience it as a kind of brain worm: once you know about it, you see evidence
Honeymoon and Anniversary destinations worth considering
If you have been listening to the Saverocity Observation Deck miles, points, and travel podcast, you know towards the end of 2018 we did a fun segment. The segment was
Quick hit: use Kanopy to stream films for free
I just found out about this service and thought I’d pass it along in case readers weren’t aware of it.
Kanopy lets you stream 6 movies per calendar month for freeSetting
Some Thoughts About Visiting Disneyland Paris in Winter
Greetings from Paris! Or more specifically, Marne-la-Valee, the suburb where Disneyland Paris is located. I am here with Deal Girl in the middle of January to answer the burning..
Even more Hilton Honors IT nonsense
Back in September, 2018, Robert Dwyer wrote at Milenomics about all the real and potential problems you might encounter redeeming Hilton Honors free weekend night certificates. H..
How I’m About to Double Down on Family Travel –
Ok, I get that writing a blog, and co-hosting not one, but two podcasts is a really bad preface to the following sentence: I’m bad at talking about myself. That
How I’m About to Double Down on Family Travel
Ok, I get that writing a blog, and co-hosting not one, but two podcasts is a really bad preface to the following sentence: I’m bad at talking about myself. That
This Week in Bank Points: Booking El Al Business Class Flights
I recently spent some time learning about El Al’s award scheme while helping a family member book roundtrip flights in Business Class. I thought I’d summarize my findings here in
This Week in Bank Points: Booking El Al Business Class Flights
I recently spent some time learning about El Al’s award scheme while helping a family member book roundtrip flights in Business Class. I thought I’d summarize my findings here in
What I Learned: Booking an award for travel on Etihad
I ended up going down quite a rabbit hole recently while trying to figure out the best way of booking an award for travel on Etihad – using their miles or
What I Learned: Booking an award for travel on Etihad
I ended up going down quite a rabbit hole recently while trying to figure out the best way of booking an award for travel on Etihad – using their miles or
Why have capitalists lost faith in capitalism?
I’ve been following with interest the evolving crisis over the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, not because it affects me in any way but because it’s less depressing
Redeem Bank Points for Amtrak [Up to 1.64 Cents Per Point]
I was poking around reddit the other day and came across this post about transferring Membership Rewards to Amtrak Guest Rewards through a two-step process to achieve ~1.5 cents ..
Redeem Bank Points for Amtrak [Up to 1.64 Cents Per Point]
I was poking around reddit the other day and came across this post about transferring Membership Rewards to Amtrak Guest Rewards through a two-step process to achieve ~1.5 cents ..