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Best Buy just got an Uber-sized lesson in surge pricing, and how not to do it.

Hoping to capitalize on the (reportedly) pent up interest in the iPhone X, Best Buy, which also sells all iPhone models via carrier installment plans that let customers pay for the devices over several months, decided to hike the full, upfront price by $100, with the retailer charging $1,099 and $1,249 for the two iPhone X configurations; Apple’s pricing is $999 and $1,149.

Mexico’s "legendary" oil hedgers (profiled her emost recently one year ago and by Bloomberg in this exhaustive article) are confident that prices won’t linger above $50 a barrel, because this summer, which is why the world’s most-active sovereign oil-trading desk spent a near record $1.25 billion on put options to lock in export prices for next year, Bloomberg reported, citing data from the country’s Ministry of Finance.

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The government really dislikes it when people make a living by conducting moral business practices without paying for their permission to do so. 

This is all too evident when examining the most recent arrest of a man for selling Bitcoin.

According to local news media reports, a Michigan man named Bradley Anthony Stetkiw has been charged by local authorities for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

America's dying malls have been a frequent topic of discussion of late as these relics of the 80's have been forced to convert once valuable high-end retail square footage into grocery stores, libraries and doctor offices just to keep the lights on.  Here's just a small sampling of the recent carnage:

The One Thing About Tax Reform That NO ONE is Talking About

The markets have been gunning higher on the notion that the Trump Administration is about to unveil a huge tax reform plan.

However, the devil is in the details. And thus far the plan is focusing on corporate tax reform, with the notion that an employer will somehow “pass on” their savings to employees via raises.

First off, while the phrase “corporate taxes” is a great political prop, the reality is that nearly 50% of large corporations pay ZERO corporate income tax.