Not exact matches
Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of
flight capital, and
living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency
status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency
status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.
«On time» is what the
flight status said when I left (I
live an hour away from the airport).
With the addition of Platinum Pro and they fact the will soon be adding premium coach sections on international
flights, they put the death nail in ever getting upgraded to BC and my
life time platinum
status will be worthless.
Since I
live on the east coast now, I was okay with flying coach across the Atlantic since it's such a short
flight, so long as I'd be able to use my
status for things like lounge access or preferred / extra legroom seats.
The app also takes advantage of the Windows Phone
Live Tiles and allows for
flight status updates, social media networking information, timetables,
flight view and more to be on the home's start screen.
All that so people can drive 2 tonne cars called SUV's that tell other people about their
status,
live in massive houses that costs a lot in fossil fuels to heat, again because of
status mainly and take lots of plane
flights to strange places for sight seeing tours that are soon forgotten when you return.