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Pretty much everything we do as MSers boils down to arbitrage. While it may not necessarily follow the textbook definition that requires buying and selling an asset, it’s still a neverending pursuit of market inefficiencies. There’s obvious examples – “pay” to earn points at a rate that is lower than the rate that you liquidate…

There aren’t too many absolute statements in the churning and MS world, because things are constantly changing. What’s ok today is not tomorrow, and that might be fine because there’s a whole new thing that wasn’t there yesterday. But there’s still a handful, one of which probably stands above the others in ubiquity – don’t…

Today’s guest post is the second from my good friend and fellow court jester smugdog, who wrote a very-well received guest post last week. Thanks for the post man! If you hang around this community long enough, you’ll realize that you’re part of a group that looks at the world in an odd lens. For…

As a result of changes to bank policies and plays dying lately, we’ve seen a lot of folks diving into new ways to continue squeezing those extra drops of juice out of MS transactions.  I’m glad that people are thinking outside the box (and outside the usual suspects) because that skill is only going to…

I talk about a lot of concepts without concrete examples on the blog, not to be obtuse (but it probably comes across that way sometimes, sorry), but because I don’t ever want to be a contributor to the “bloggers killing plays” epidemic.  I’m not trying to be the next Brian Kelly (and I think that…

I’ll probably make myself sound dumb in this post, since a lot of y’all are in more technical fields than I am. But I ran a crappy web design “company” when I was a kid and have sat through enough painful B2B SaaS A/B test meetings to feel at least 10% qualified to talk about…