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There was no explanation of why Wolfe's bags were charged "three times" the regular excess-baggage penalty. Were they three times as heavy? Three times as ugly...
...know that flying with bags these days can cost you extra, but who knew how expensive it could get? One unlucky traveler got hit with an excess-baggage charge so outrageous, he may as well have bought his luggage its own seats on the flight...
...Avenger contacted Thai Airways, and a rep provided the same letter that had been sent to Wolfe. It read, in part, "Any bag or piece which exceeds 32 kilos shall be charged at three times the applicable excess-baggage" charge of 5,500 baht...
This is the case because the investment banking division can use FDIC-insured funds from the retail-banking division to indirectly finance excessive risk-taking. The retail bank’s customers will not transfer their deposits to a safer institution because they know that the FDIC will compensate them in the event of a bank failure. This moral hazard encourages further mergers between retail and investment banks, which in turn begets more institutions that are “too big to fail.” When excess risk gets a conglomerate bank into trouble, the bill goes to?...
...that from the beginning. Cobbled together as a way out of the country's bloody political crisis in early 2008, the Grand Coalition Government added more ministries (there are now 42) and divided them equally between the two warring parties. Since then, the public has seethed at the excess and lack of judgment shown by their leaders. Just last week, government ministers and their assistants took off for a three-day coastal retreat at the Serena Beach Hotel and Spa, where most of the rooms go for more than $200 a night. The big achievement of the weekend? According...