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[Boston/MA Only?] $600 Chase Banking Signup Bonus

November 13, 2018

JP Morgan Chase is offering a $600 signup bonus for opening a checking account and a savings account and completing certain activities. Up until…

Freedom Credit Union Cash Back Visa: ‘Unlimited’ 5% Back (With Plenty of Strings Attached)

November 12, 2018

This is a potentially very lucrative card for anyone who’s able to apply for, receive it and spend heavily on it. Uncapped 5% back cards…

Episode 2: What Amex needs to do instead of 5x Fine Hotels & Resorts, Citi bungles refer-a-friend, Absurd Stacking, and Citi Sears alternatives. Milenomics² No Annual Fee Podcast

November 7, 2018

Welcome back to the Milenomics² No Annual Fee Podcast. Episode 2 kicks off with news and then we dive into a listener question as…

Shop Talk: How Amex is Successfully Battling Back Against Chase in 2018

November 7, 2018

Welcome to another edition of Shop Talk where we discuss what’s going on in our personal points & miles space and highlight what we…

Sweet Spots: The Most Seasonally Miscategorized Hyatt Hotels

November 3, 2018

Hyatt’s loyalty scheme is intriguing to me for the following reasons: Their award chart, on average, has very favorable value per point Hyatt is…

Plastiq Fee Free Dollars Posting from October Promo

November 1, 2018

Halloween was light night, but Santa came this morning to good little boys and girls who took advantage of the Plastiq October Fee Free…

[Dead] Mistake? Cash out Hilton points for Amazon GCs at 0.5 cents per point

October 31, 2018

Update: Looks like they’ve stopped allowing Hilton accounts to be linked and the option to pay with Hilton points is currently unavailable. Most likely…

Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) vs Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) vs Two Roads Hospitality (Hyatt acquisition)

October 31, 2018

After recording the most recent Milenomics² Podcast I realized that I conflated the Hyatt SLH partnership with LHW into something that doesn’t exist, calling…

Introducing the Milenomics² podcast(s)

October 30, 2018

Today’s a day Robert and I have been working on for months now. I’ve gone back and forth how best to move Milenomics (the…

It’s launch week here on the Milenomics² podcast! We’re out of our beta 0.X shows and into Episode 1 today. On today’s show we…