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The Evening Brief

Small Business Owners Are Underpricing by 15%—You're Leaving Money on the Table Every Day

Plus: U.S. Trade Deficit Widens to $56.8B—Your Import Costs Just Went Up More | Thursday, January 29, 2026

By Operator Brief Editors • 4 min read

The Evening Brief

IRS Watchdog: 27% Staff Cut Creates "Greater Challenges" for 2026 Tax Season

Plus: S&P 500 Hits 7,000 for First Time—But the Fed Says Don't Get Comfortable | Wednesday, January 28, 2026

By Operator Brief Editors • 5 min read

The Evening Brief

Pentagon Starts Terminating Small Business Contracts—Your $20M+ Set-Aside Is Under Review

Plus: FCC's One-to-One TCPA Rule Vacated—You Can Now Text Multiple Customers Again | Tuesday, January 27, 2026

By Operator Brief Editors • 4 min read

The Week Ahead

THE BLACK EXECUTIVE JOURNAL — SUNDAY WEEKLY MARKET WATCH

Inflation’s Second Wind, FX Fragility, and Diaspora Deal Flow — Week of April 13–17, 2026

By BEB Editors • 10 min read

Featured Stories

West Africa Bankrolled Europe's Recovery. The Reckoning Is Now a Financial Architecture.

The colonial sterling balance system extracted billions from Nigeria and Ghana to stabilize postwar Britain. The same structural premium costs Africa $74.5 billion a year in 2026. The institution being built to end it issued its governance framework this February.

By Noah Carmichael • 6 min read

Featured Stories

The Exchange Nobody Told You About

West Africa's BRVM Composite Index Returned 25.26% in 2025. Most Global Portfolios Have Zero Exposure.

By Noah Carmichael • 5 min read

The Pulse

Enforcement Is Getting Faster, Not Fairer — Compliance Has Become the Product

The Black Executive Journal — Afternoon Edition | Thursday, April 9, 2026

By BEB Editors • 5 min read

The Pulse

Inflation Risk Is Back on the Tape, While Payments Infrastructure Becomes the New Industrial Policy

The Black Executive Journal — Morning Edition | Thursday, April 9, 2026

By BEB Editors • 6 min read

Featured Stories

Hidden Capital: The $3.5 Trillion Market Black Founders Aren’t Accessing

Private credit is flooding the middle market—but for Black entrepreneurs, the real gap isn’t capital. It’s access, structure, and visibility into how deals actually get done.

By Noah Carmichael • 15 min read