News and notes from around the interweb:

• An argument that the new 4% unlimited cash back card is not worth it – hassles aside, for a $2,000 credit limit it is not..

  I got the US Bank Smartly Card- 4% cash back on everything if you maintain a $100k investment balance.

  It is real, but the IMO, the hassles are not worth it, so I do not recommend it.

  What sucks:

  1) They only gave me a $2,000 credit limit.
  I have an 830 credit score, a $50k… https://t.co/pBKjEPaXWa pic.twitter.com/mJmt6SSgyH

  — Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) November 16, 2024

• United Airlines flight attendant contact negotiations adjourned until the New Year. The union says they’re mad at the Biden Administration’s National Mediation Board, but also that they’re in a worse spot once the Trump administration appoints a majority of the board.

  Though negotiations have dragged on for years – the contract became amendable in 2021 – the union only just unveiled its compensation demands last month so claims about how the company is delaying are disingenuous. They purposely waited for American cabin crew to get a new deal to set a higher baseline in bargaining. (The union, AFA-CWA, even lent their lead negotiator to American to drive their bargaining – figuring that if a strike had to happen to get a better deal, better to let a different union do it.)

• Barclays JetBlue card 80,000 point offer after spending $1,000 on purchases within 90 days and paying the $99 annual fee.

• Bank of America Alaska Visa 75,000 mile offer plus a $99+tax companion ticket. Requires $3,000 in purchases within 90 days. $95 annual fee.

• The Onion actually figured this out 23 years ago

  If we cap interest rates at 10% then we’ll reduce the supply of credit to borrowers, and people who need credit will not get it or go to unregulated sources (loan sharks etc)

  It is a bad policy, whether it comes from the right or the left.

  Credit cards are actually a good… https://t.co/VWoorjbOZH

  — Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) November 15, 2024

• I’m calling it: Riyadh Air won’t be a dry airline.

  Jennifer Lopez performing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during Elie Saab Fashion Show. pic.twitter.com/IW09OnC55Z

  — Megh Updates ™ (@MeghUpdates) November 15, 2024

• The striking thing here, to me, is that the hotel owner still wanted the guest to cancel the reservation themselves, fearing consequences from Booking.com. (They’ve been removed from that platform.)

  Hotel Garni Ongaro in Italy has informed Israeli guests they are unwelcome simply because they are Israeli.

  I can only imagine the pain and sense of injustice I would feel if a hotel denied me a place to stay simply because of my identity, being Palestinian.

  This is… pic.twitter.com/RkZVru9dJQ

  — Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) November 14, 2024