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Today's number 11.

That's the percentage increase in Halloween candy prices this year compared to 2024.

True story.

Last Halloween I went dressed as a chicken and I met a girl dressed as an egg which answered the age old question the chicken

listen to me markets are bigger than I what you have here is a structural change in the world distribution

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