High fuel prices have forced airlines to raise fares and fees, and consolidation and flight-schedule reductions have given them pricing power they didn't have before.

WSJ: The Best Places to Fly This Summer

Wall Street firms and those responsive to their well-heeled lobbying in the Bush administration and in the Senate will raise the specter of capital controls, engendering capital flight and lost business opportunities, unless such measures are spurned.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Extra money may help to raise that threshold but further security breaches will only continue the flight of BAE Systems' workers out of the country.

BBC: Saudis look at the scene of the hostage taking in Khobar

If that amount is breached, the ECB must vote to raise it: that vote will be effectively a vote to allow massive capital flight.

BBC: Watch deposit flight, not the eurocrats