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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business

Finally, they would take over the international air travel market. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry. Then they would move upmarket to regional flights, private aviation, and eventually, national flights. And there is a sense in which poor regulation is to blame.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

Since they have maintained artificial exchange rates – coupled with capital controls, price controls and other coercive and self-defeating economic policies – people have of course felt it necessary to get their money out any way they can.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. To ban or not to ban laptops? Since the U.S.