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How to Plan for Catastrophic Failure With A Financial Firewall

October 6, 2013

Yesterday’s post, “The Icarus Paradox,” talked about the tools that credit card companies have to fight back against us. There truly are roadblocks every…

The Icarus Paradox–When Banks Clip Our Wings

October 5, 2013

We’ve gone over plenty of great ways to earn and use miles these past few weeks. However I’d like to get a little serious…

Heading Home for the Holidays With Miles

October 4, 2013

2013 is flying by. We’re already into October (something which I apparently forgot). Soon Thanksgiving will be upon us. Some of you are lucky…

Quick Review: Everything You Might Have Missed

October 3, 2013

Somehow I forgot two important pieces of information: 1. September is over 2. Milenomics passed its 1 month Birthday. In celebration of #2, I’ve…

Operation Twist: Turning Avios Into Free One Ways.

October 2, 2013

Today we’ll learn a new booking trick: Operation Twist. Yesterday we discussed the Three best cities to live in for AA award travel. Operation twist builds…

The Three Best Places to Live When Using AA Miles

October 1, 2013

Note: Today’s post is aimed at #201 level travelers. Miles are geographically specific. If you live in Billings, MT for example you’re going to need to…

The Best US Airways Credit Card is a Discover Card?

September 30, 2013

Today US Airways announced a very lucrative bonus on shared miles. Southern Travel Girl wrote a great post about it this morning. This same…

A Tale of Two Purchases, a Milenomics Fairy Tale

September 29, 2013

We’ve talked about retraining your brain before in Milenomics. In a way this is the first in a post exploring the Philosophy of Milenomics….

Chase Gift Cards Debriefing

September 28, 2013

If you were living under a pretty large boulder for the last 5 months you might have missed that from April until last weekend…

First Class, Business, or Coach; Which is the Best Use of Miles?

September 27, 2013

International Week is wrapping up here at Milenomics, and I’ve saved the best for last. I’ll obviously continue to write about international travel for…