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Somali pirates hold summer clearance on ransoms and hostages.
Someone's kid must be doing a business course on-line or something -- they appear to have discovered the twin ideas of holding costs and lost opportunity costs... Or else the increasing violence of the navies' responses has planted the idea of cashing out and getting into a safer line of work.

Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=323354