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Daily Money: Ketchup shortage, Forbes billionaire list, free beer for COVID vaccines

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Good morning, Daily Money friends, it's Nathan Bomey welcoming you to Wednesday. Don't look now, but there's a ketchup packet shortage.

Too bad you didn't save all those ketchup packets, eh? I liken this to the recent baseball card boom. You never know it's valuable ... until it's valuable. But by then, it's usually too late.

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💡 INSIGHT OF THE DAY: This'll be fun and informative. Do you have questions on taxes or stimulus checks? Follow USA TODAY Money's Twitter account to get answers at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 8 live on Twitter Spaces in a chat with USA TODAY personal finance reporter Jessica Menton, Money reporter Charisse Jones and Money & Tech NOW editor Josh Rivera will join with Ernst & Young's Dina Pyron and TurboTax's Lisa Greene-Lewis.

Join our experts for answers to your questions on taxes and stimulus checks!

📰 Here are our top stories:

1. A lot of people are making stimulus check mistakes on their tax returns. Make sure you're not among them.

2. There are only a handful of Black Americans on the latest Forbes list of billionaires

3. No. 1? That's still Jeff Bezos. But Elon Musk is fast on his heels at No. 2.

4. Preparing for retirement? Make sure you know these four secrets about making your Social Security check bigger.

5. Need a cold one after getting your COVID vaccine? Sam Adams is giving away free beer to the first 10,000 people who show the brand they've been vaccinated.

Might want to act fast on that one. I have a feeling they're brewing up a lot of interest.

Sorry, not sorry for the dad joke.

--@NathanBomey

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