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...dwarfed by bank bonus payouts. In the next week or so, Goldman and other large financial firms will hand out an estimated $140 billion in 2009 bonuses. Goldman alone is expected to enrich its employees by $18 billion. The large bonuses have drawn scrutiny because they are being paid at a time when the unemployment rate is 10% and many Americans are suffering financially. What's more, many Americas believe Goldman and others only survived because of taxpayer support, and now are unfairly profiting from the government bailouts...
Presumably, the airlines don't mind because the change means they need fewer ramp personnel, and now they get paid every time they do handle your bag. In reality, it's the airline flight crews who are now doing the baggage handling, for no extra wages - and don't they enjoy it. (See 10 things you didn't know about money...
Giving some passengers a disincentive to check their bags makes the experience worse for everyone, even the people who paid the fees to check their bags. I admit, I don't like dragging a suitcase around a cramped jet. I prefer to check mine if I have enough time. But I still have to find a spot for a laptop case and coat, and I still risk getting beaned by falling valises or smacked by baggage that's being hauled down the aisle by overloaded, exhausted, ill-tempered passengers...
...crisis, Yéle's technology partners Mobile Giving and Give on the Go have waived their typical waiting period of two weeks to deposit the donations. Firms like Mobile Accord - which manages the Red Cross system, among others - pay out donations on a quarterly basis, after customers have paid their cell-phone carriers and those companies have forwarded the money, 100% of which goes toward relief efforts. (Read "Seismologist Roger Musson: Haiti Quake...
...former governor of Alaska is still peddling her mega-selling memoir, Going Rogue, and racking up lucrative speaking engagements. Now she's adding a revenue stream as a paid analyst on the conservative national soapbox. Even before she made her Jan. 12 debut with Bill O'Reilly, the latest round of America's favorite parlor game, What Does Sarah Want?, was in full swing. Is Palin's television gig a sign that she is abandoning her political career and all 2012 aspirations? Or is Fox News meant to serve as the ideal launching pad for an eventual presidential bid fueled...