This hearing is one hour 40 minutes. Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over the phone so you wouldnt be late but were charged a convenience fee. The only thing that fee is convenient for is the banks bottom line. Or lets say youre looking for an apartment, you find one with affordable rent but when you look at the lease, you realize between the maintenance fee and the trash fee and the mysterious convenien
Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over the phone so you wouldnt be late but were charged a convenience fee. The only thing that fee is convenient for is the banks bottom line. Or lets say youre looking for an apartment, you find one with affordable rent but when you look at the lease, you realize between the maintenance fee and the trash fee and the mysterious convenience fee, the actual rent youll be char
Extra costs to consumers monthly bills. Live coverage here on cspan. Cspan live here, the Senate Banking Committee Hearing about to get under way. Witnesses will be testifying on how junk fees effect consumers and their budgets. Some examples of those fees are the hidden charges that get attached to goods and services such as loans and Bank Accounts or corporations. Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over t
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A pilot arrested after crashing into a shed. His young son on board. How quickthinking air Traffic Controllers may have been prevented something even worse. And great white quest. Its the oceans most feared predator, and nbcs Kerry Sanders is setting off on a live journey to find one in the wild today. Thursday, may 28th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning, live dive with sharks. Apparently no volunteers at this table. Thats why we have Kerry Sanders. Hes going to go in search of those wonderful creatures. Were going to watch it. Exactly right. Get to that in a couple minutes. Lets start with our top story this morning. Problems from storm after storm, now mounting in texas. Rivers rising near houston and dallas. Some neighborhoods are being told to evacuate. And to top things off, there was a tornado outbreak. Our Gabe Gutierrez is