Tip # 714 - GUESS WHO HAS THE BETTER LOBBYISTS?

Sunday, April 26

Perhaps because I’ve recently flown “the friendly skies,” this WSJ headline caught my eye.

“Senators Warn United, American on Merger” 

The article quoted a letter written by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D, Mass) and Mike Lee (R, Utah), noting “a combined United-American air carrier would be able to exploit its market power to harm consumers in a number of ways.”

Like, “higher airfares!”

Here’s a question for these two Washington Watchdog Wizards; where were your letters to all the Hospital Systems that have merged?

Tilting at windmills, again. Oh, well. Maybe this is a Kalshi opportunity! (‘Josh’ing with ya, now.)

Back to airlines - and in a lighter vein - some Tips readers will remember putting quarters into a life insurance vending machine when checking in at the airport.

Two bits would get you $5K of term insurance, the ‘term’ being the duration of your one-way flight.

In a photo album somewhere, I’m remembering a picture of my ‘Gram’ in the old Mitchell Field Terminal buying a policy before flying to the west coast, knowing that could be her only ‘estate.’

Kind of sweet. Even sweeter, she lived well into her nineties.