--- title: 'More Money Monday Roundup: $10 JetBlue Tickets & a Grade-Inflation Tax' description: 'Personal finance from around the Web: College students are spending too much time drinking and having sex. The solution? A grade-inflation tax on colleges. [Center…' authors: - name: timestaff url: https://money.com/author/timestaff/ articles: 459 covers: - Personal Finance - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes former_staff: true published: '2010-03-08T22:39:57.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:20:50.000Z' section: Personal Finance tags: - Academy Awards - Chris Dodd - College Students - Consumer Protection - file consumer complaint - FTC - grade-inflation tax - JetBlue - Oscar statue - Personal Finance word_count: 171 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![More Money Monday Roundup: $10 JetBlue Tickets & a Grade-Inflation Tax](https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?crop=0px%2C733px%2C4780px%2C2689px&resize=1012%2C569&quality=85&strip&ssl=1) Personal finance from around the Web: - College students are spending too much time drinking and having sex. The solution? A [grade-inflation tax](http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/2010/03/hedonistic-college-students.html) on colleges. \[Center for College Affordability and Productivity\] - Senator Chris Dodd will propose this week that the Fed should assume regulatory control over [big banks](http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/fed-to-keep-big-bank-oversight/staying-put/) ($100 billion in assets or more). \[Daily Beast via [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f1b6822-2a2c-11df-b940-00144feabdc0.html)\] - Happy 10th Anniversary JetBlue! Today only, you can book a $10 flight to any of the first 10 cities the airline offered service to from JFK when it launched back in 2000. \[Baltimore Sun\] - Amid all of the Oscar hype, how much is that statue actually worth? Based on [current gold values](http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/03/08/whats-an-oscar-worth/), a melted-down Academy Award is worth around $500. \[WalletPop\] - According to the Federal Trade Commission, this week is [National Consumer Protection Week](http://consumerist.com/2010/03/its-national-consumer-protection-week.html). Consumers can find links to free and useful information at [consumer.gov](http://consumer.gov). But, just in case you were curious, here's how to file a [consumer complaint](http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/how-to-file-a-consumer-complaint-federal-trade-commission-ftc/) with the FTC. \[The Consumerist | Digerati Life\] *Follow Money on Twitter at* [*http://twitter.com/money*](https://twitter.com/money). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Personal Finance", "item": "https://money.com/personal-finance/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Saving Money", "item": "https://money.com/saving-money/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Monday Roundup: $10 JetBlue Tickets & a Grade-Inflation Tax" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/", "name": "More Money Monday Roundup: $10 JetBlue Tickets & a Grade-Inflation Tax", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-03-08T22:39:57.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-monday-roundup-10-jetblue-tickets-a-grade-inflation-tax/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:50.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Monday Roundup: $10 JetBlue Tickets & a Grade-Inflation Tax", "articleSection": "Personal Finance", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?quality=85", "width": 4780, "height": 3540 } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "timestaff", "url": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2010-03-08T22:39:57.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the Web: College students are spending too much time drinking and having sex. 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