CC: Hamas Leaders Revel in Luxury with $11 Billion in Wealth, While UN Workers Celebrate the Murder of Israelis

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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#MrMarket: Ten years ago the Twitter IPO. @RealConstable @WSJ @BatchelorShow

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Constable Confidential: AirBnB-ers Up in Arms Over Scottish Holiday Rental Laws

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Joining Constable Confidential today is Fiona Campbell, CEO of the Association of Scotland's Self Caterers. She explains how new Scottish laws have made renting out your bedroom harder or prohibitively costly, depending on where you live—that and much more.

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Forbes.com: Times Running Out For College As Student Enrollment Dwindles

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For many people the cost of getting a degree is the biggest investment they ever make. It’s supposed to be a path to higher earnings, many experts say. Read more here.

 

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WSJ: Financial Flashback November 2013 -- Twitter Goes Public

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Published exclusively in the print edition of The Wall Street Journal

WSJ: Where Are Commodities Prices Headed?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

China’s economy, war in the Middle East and a predicted El Niño are among the factors experts are looking at. Read more here.

Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891.

Early diggings on the Charters Towers mining district. Makeshift shade for the miners.

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#France: BUY Japan, Defence, Energy for the long wars ahead, @RealConstable, Kiplinger's Retirement Report @BatchelorShow

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CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL: Mid-east Update: Yemen Fires Rockets At Israel and Israel Braces for an Attack from the Lebanon

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Photo caption: soldiers in the Gaza Strip 1956

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Constable Confidential: U.S. Refuses To Offer Passports to Non-American Hostages Held in Gaza

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Ben Weinthal joins Constable Confidential from Jerusalem to discuss his recent story about lobby groups urging the U.S. and other countries to give hostages held in Gaza citizenship.

So far, no country is offering such potential refuge.

Photo caption: Great Britain: The children of Polish Jews from the region between Germany and Poland on their arrival in London on the "Warsaw".

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Constable Confidential: Reform UK's Ben Habib weighs in on the Israel-Hamas conflict and explains how the Tory Party dropped the ball on Brexit

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Photo Credit: אלכס אגור / . Tanks of the 14th Brigade advancing on the Crimson Axis (south of Abu Aguila). 

Location - Sinai Desert (Crimson Axis). This file contains content and released by the IDF Spokespersons Unit.

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Forbes.com: Bad Weather And War Could Send Wheat Prices Skyrocketing

By SIMON CONSTABLE

It’s gonna get rough for wheat farmers and buyers this year. Suboptimal weather across key growing areas and potential disruptions emanating from the war in the Middle east are to blame. Read more here.

Harvest Time in Romania 

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Forbes.com: Scotland’s Latest Energy Idiocy

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Scotland’s government is at it again: Meddling with its absurd energy policies.

This time the ruling Scottish National Party wants to sell energy to Europe. It looks like a bright idea on the surface, that is until you look under the hood. Read more here.

North Sea Oil Rig 

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Forbes.com: What’s It Take For Economists To Forecast U.S. Recessions Accurately?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Getting a job as a Wall Street economist is supposed to require great skill. But apparently that skill doesn’t mean developing the ability to forecast big events like recessions.

A year and a half after the ‘recession call’ started and we still have no recession. In fact, the U.S. is now growing faster than it has in ages. It flies in the face of the collective message from Wall Street. And that has me wondering what’s up. Read more here.

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#France: Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron stand side by side with Jerusalem. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable

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Constable Confidential: Iranians Have Long Endured No Legal Protections Publish

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Constable Confidential: Israel 14 Days After the Hamas Attack

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Korn Ferry: Monk Mode: A Hot Trend for Workers?

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

The BBC jumped on the trend, along with other news sources. So did TikTok. “Monk mode”—a term coined two decades ago by a computer program—has now become the latest social-media detox, one that experts say could help workers struggling to focus amid today’s incessant distractions. 

But does it come with a cost?

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Korn Ferry: A Gender Pay Gap—at the Very Top

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

British women have come a long way in business, but even those taking the top CEO role are getting short-changed it seems—and by some signifcant sums.

The few women CEOs in the public companies that make up the FTSE 100 index of leading UK stocks get paid 23.5% less than their male counterparts, according to a recent report The High Pay Center, a UK think tank. In 2022, the average pay for male FTSE 100 CEOs was £4.3 million ($5.2 million) versus £3.4 million for women. And there are only 11 such women in those top roles. Read more here.

#AT&T: Forty years ago, Ma Bell broke into innovation and prosperity. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow WSJ

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CC: The latest on the Hamas-backed Invasion of Israel with special guest Ben Weinthal

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Briefings Magazine: Dodging a Bullet…for Now

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For much of the last year and a half, Wall Street sent a consistent message: recession was imminent. Financiers were certain, because the Federal Reserve had pledged to crush inflation by sharply raising interest rates, which typically triggers a rapid slowdown. Yet, unlike in the past, no recession arrived. Unemployment remains low, with millions of unfilled job openings, and the economy keeps growing. “It’s hard to apply normal economic analysis in the post-pandemic world,” says Win Thin, global head of currency strategy at New York-based Brown Brothers Harriman. Hard, yes, but not impossible. Read more here.

WSJ: Financial Flash Back -- 40 Years ago the US Government broke up AT&T

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Published exclusively in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal

#France: #UK: Sunak retreat from COP 26 Net-Zero pledge. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitanie

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Forbes Uruguay: Análisis: por qué hay motivos para ser optimistas con el precio del oro

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Los precios del oro cayeron durante el último mes. Pero los expertos dicen que hay motivos para ser optimistas respecto de una recuperación en el corto plazo. Read more here.

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Forbes.com: Bullion Hits The Skids As Investors Dump $900 Million Of Gold

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Gold prices took a tumble over the last month. But experts say there’s reason to be optimistic for a bounce back in short order. Read more here.

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#France: Diesel fuel surges in the paradise of South of France @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitainie

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Forbes.com: Exclusive Interview With Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Earlier this month I interviewed exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to discuss what’s happening in Iran. You can watch the 25-minute video here. We cover a lot of topics, mostly to do with economics.

Read more here.

Reza Pahlavi

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Korn Ferry: A Surprising Stall in Gender-Pay Gap Progress

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Korn Ferry: The End of Saying ‘Please’?

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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#France: Brent Crude Oil prices. How to think about changing careers? @RealConstable @BatchelorShow WSJ.com. Occitanie Region of France

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WSJ: 5 Books to Read if You’re Thinking of Changing Careers

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Unhappy workers dream of doing something different, but often don’t know where to even begin. They might want to start by reading these books. Read more here.

The Long Interview: His Imperial Highness Reza Pahlavi Shares His Views on Iran

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

His Imperial Highness Reza Pahlavi discusses the situation in Iran, sanctions, the Masha Act, and much much more with Simon Constable.

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#France: Lessons learned by an Englishman living in the splendor of the South of France. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow

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#France: Harvest Moon in the sunflower fields. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow #Occitania, France.

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WSJ. Financial Flashback -- Crisis on Wall Street

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Exclusively published in the print edition of the  Wall Street Journal.

#France: England hints at blaming France for the air traffic chaos. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitane

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Forbes.com: Germany’s Epic Recession Continues: Economy Still Can’t Catch A Break

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

The German Federal government just confirmed that the economy has now been in recession for three straight quarters through to the end of June. And that doesn’t even take into account the current situation nor the likely future for the country.

“We suspect that household and government consumption will continue be very weak and think investment will contract,” states a recent report from London-based financial consulting company Capital Economics. Read more here.

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Forbes.com: Investor Warning: September Is The S&P 500’s Worst Performing Month!

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

While August was a shaky month for investors, it could just be a warmup for September. Traditionally, that ninth month, which is just a few days away, has been the very worst month in which to invest in stocks, according to a recent data analysis from New York-based analytics company CFRA. Read more here.

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#SouthofFrance: Heat waves, no rain in days, and daily siestas for an Englishman in Paradise. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitane.

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Korn Ferry: AI’s Helping Hand For Female Job Seekers

By SIMON CONSTABLE

UK leaders in AI say the algorithms that hurt women candidates have changed. Reaada more here.

#France: Heat wave and little rain bake the sunflower paradise of South France at Occitane. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow

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Korn Ferry: Britain’s Newest Fiscal Crunch

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Businesses struggle to adjust amid hefty tax hikes on corporations and consumers. Read more here.

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#France: Sunflowers in bloom, climate perfectly South of France. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable WSJ #Occitane.

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WSJ: Financial Flashback -- August 2018 Apple Reaches $1 Trillion in Market Cap

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Forbes.com: Milk Lovers Beware: Brace Yourself For A Rebound In Prices.

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Coffee lovers might want to switch from latte to espresso pronto. 

That’s because the price of milk is currently skyrocketing and will likely continue to do so, experts say. This phenomenon is due to an horrific confluence of events that will make milk lovers wince. Read more here.

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