| | | | | | | | | | | |  | You've got monthly newspaper subscriptions, phone bills, gym memberships, mortgages, car payments and that wine of the month club you keep forgetting to cancel. Why not pay for your air travel the same way? A startup called OneGo is charging $1500 to $2950 per month for unlimited airfare—with some restrictions—on seven of the largest U.S. airlines. | | | | |  | Any way you crunch the numbers, the Super Bowl is a titan of an advertising franchise. Every year, spots get longer and more expensive to air. Maybe that's because every year, we watch in massive numbers. | | | | |  | The days of $100 per barrel oil are long gone, but only cruise lines have abolished fuel surcharges as energy costs have plummeted. Airlines, trucking companies and railroads continue to stick customers with zombie fuel fees. Why? Well, because they can. | | | | |  | On this week's Odd Lots Podcast, hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk to professor Steven Skiena about that time he made an absurd amount of money using computers and algorithms to crack the betting system for jai alai. | | | | |  | Even casual observers know oil is exerting uncommon influence on stocks. What's less clear is how the energy market has come to dominate sentiment in industries with seemingly no connection to crude prices. Understanding why oil is casting such a spell is more than an academic inquiry. The reason matters, given how big the moves have been. Almost $1.6 trillion has been erased from U.S. stocks in 2016. If oil is contributing, it'd be nice to know why. | | | | | | | | A Bit Expensive for a Box | | The Mercedes-Benz G65 AMG Is a $200,000 Way to Brag | | It is an astounding car. All the numbers are big. There's a 12-cylinder engine. It's got a great history, having worked initially as military transport for the Shah of Iran before becoming the preferred vehicle for the Pope. But the body style—and the abysmal gas mileage—haven't changed in 40 years. Is paying $223,575 for a G-Wagon still cool? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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