#MrMarket: Ninety years ago, the New Deal birth of the SEC. @BatchelorShow WSJ

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WSJ: Financial Flashback 1933 Securities Act Enacted

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#France: Food prices and popular tempers rise on May Day in Paris. @BatchelorShow Simon Constable, Forbes.

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Forbes.com: Reaching The Fed's 2% Target Will Cost America Big, New Research Shows

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There’s inflation, and then there’s big, elevated, inflation, humongous out-of-control inflation.

And depending on which type you are fighting the impact on the economy will be different, new research shows. In America, the cost could be brutal. Read more here.

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Forbes.com: What You Didn’t Know: How Sudan’s Civil War Matters To M&Ms, Coke

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The gruesome civil war in Sudan might seem like a problem far from home, given the tiny size of the economy and its relative strategic importance.

However, the ongoing calamity, which shows few signs of abating, will, in all likelihood, impact the supply or prices of candy. Read more here.

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#France: US: UK: Banging pots and pans in protest of Macron's visit to Orleans. Banks expecting more flight to cash. @BatchelorShow Forbes

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Forbes.com: Falling Oil Prices Paint Bleak Economic Picture

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The price of oil is telling us something worrying about the global economy.

Despite recently announced production cuts by OPEC+ (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plus Russia), Brent crude oil prices continue to decline. Read more here. 

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