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Airline Baggage Fees: The Perils of Making Air Travel Suck More

Over the past few years, airlines have rushed to add bag fees as quickly as they could -- and then just as quickly raised them higher. The logic? People are willing to pay bag fees, but they won't pay higher ticket prices. While that's true, calling bag fees an unqualified success is a huge mista...
Memo to Congress: Stop Touting Small Business Job Growth

The financial world spends a lot of time reading the tea leaves in the monthly ADP National Employment Report, which estimates changes in jobs with private employers (that's most of the work force, of course). The report deserves a look, because the data is "real" -- it's a survey from current payro...
Double Dippers vs. Healthcare Reform: Attack of the Corporate Welfare Queens

Big business objects to being forced to pay tax on federal drug insurance subsidies, yet corporations stand to receive more from healthcare reform more than they will pay out now.
Obama's Offshore Drilling Plan: Conoco, Shell Look North to Alaska and Smile

President Obama's offshore drilling plan was met this week with just about every reaction except for unadulterated happiness. But wait, there are a couple winners here -- namely ConocoPhillips (COP) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), two oil companies that have been trying to expand in Alaska for several ...
Big Automakers Thrive in March

Ford, Toyota, Honda, GM reported double digit gains last month. Only Chrysler saw a decline of 8%. Plus: Jobless claims continue decline.

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CEOs Get a Pay Cut

After several years of increases, a new report shows executive pay declined this past year. Who got the big pay cuts? And why did hedge fund execs make more?

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Moving Up: Dollar General Takes on Walmart and Walgreens

Recently, we reported that Dollar General (DG) was going after Walmart (WMT) on its way to becoming a true discount store,. Now Dollar is going after Walgreens (WAG) as well. Dollar General is expanding product initiatives that take it further away from dollar store status, where price, not brand...
Banking on Twitter and Facebook: Wells Fargo's Smart Social Networking Strategy

Most financial firms don't have a clue about social networking. But a handful of industry playeres are using the approach in innovative ways
Levi's Gets Litigious: Lawsuits Now Almost as Ubiquitous as 501s

Levi's is in litigation again, this time with Evisu International over a Tribute line of jeans.
A Lousy Census Ad Campaign and Low Response Rates: You Do the Math

If the response rate for the 2010 U.S. census fails to exceed that of the 2000 count, Congress might want to ask some tough questions about what, exactly, DraftFCB and the other ad agencies charged with publicizing the effort did with taxpayers' money.
The Big Pharma Transparency Report Card: Congratulations, Merck. Lilly? Needs Improvement

A comparison of the way Pfizer (PFE), Merck (MRK), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly (LLY) disclose their payments to doctors shows that Merck is the most transparent company and Lilly is the least.
Travelocity's Roaming Gnome Shows How to Get Ahead in Social Media

The fact that Travelocity's Roaming Gnome now sits on Chatroulette suggests that for brands seeking to take engage in social media, having an anthropomorphic mascot will be a huge advantage. The gnome -- courtesy of ad agency McKinney -- spends several hours a day on the pointless but enormously popular video chat site that serves up random strangers for even more random encounters.
Employment Report on Friday May Not Seem All That Good

The monthly employment report due Friday morning is expected to be the first overwhelmingly solid one since the job market began to tank two years ago. But even if Wall Street gets what it wants, it may discover that it wanted more than it got.
American Airlines Seeks Air Supremacy in New York (With JetBlue's Help)

Anyone remember that little airline called American (AMR)? Those guys used to rule New York from a mighty perch, but in the last several years they've seen airlines hammer away. Continental (CAL) came at them from Newark while Delta (DAL) and JetBlue (JBLU) snuck up on them at JFK. Delta's most r...
Myriad Fallout: Who Are the Winners and Losers in the Gene Patent Ruling?

If the recent federal court ruling in the Myriad Genetics (MYGN) case -- which invalidated gene patents based on isolated chunks of DNA -- holds up on appeal, it will hurt any company whose drugs are based on isolating or purifying substances that can be found occurring on their own in nature. By c...

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