Your total comes to $8.43. You hand over a ten. What comes back is now, legally speaking, up to the store.
Both of those numbers are in the same Census release, two lines apart. The first one gets the headline. The second one is the one that tells you what kind of economy this is.
The Federal Reserve doesn't usually need to survey small businesses to know tariffs cost money. It did anyway — and the numbers show retailers and manufacturers absorbed the hit hardest, then handed most of it to shoppers within the year.
CMS switched on a new Medicare program July 1 that caps GLP-1 drug copays at $50. The eligibility rules quietly do most of the work here — and they exclude more people than they include.
The Federal Reserve's new payments study says checks are down to 4% of transactions. It also says they carried $24.45 trillion — more than double what every credit and debit card in the country moved all year.
The FBI says scammers now target seniors specifically while they're closing on a home sale, because a wire that size doesn't look out of place. A community bank's fraud chief says the fix starts with three questions asked at the counter.
A law firm you've never heard of says a stranger who happens to share your last name died and left behind an unclaimed life insurance policy — worth, almost always, exactly $10.8 million. The FTC re-issued its warning about this letter on July 9. It's not the first time. It won't be the last.
A bill to change that just cleared a House committee. It wouldn't stop check fraud. It would just give banks more time to catch it before the money is gone.
Your total comes to $8.43. You hand over a ten. What comes back is now, legally speaking, up to the store.
The Federal Reserve doesn't usually need to survey small businesses to know tariffs cost money. It did anyway — and the numbers show retailers and manufacturers absorbed the hit hardest, then handed most of it to shoppers within the year.
June added 57,000 jobs, well short of forecasts. Two months of hiring got revised down after the fact. Normally that combination has the Fed reaching for a rate cut. Its own June minutes say some officials wanted to raise rates instead.
It held $3.65 million in deposits. The whole thing was over by Monday morning. But the mechanics are worth knowing, because one of them costs people money and almost nobody warns them.
CMS switched on a new Medicare program July 1 that caps GLP-1 drug copays at $50. The eligibility rules quietly do most of the work here — and they exclude more people than they include.
Fewer than 300,000 people still get their benefit in the mail. If you're one of them, here's what to do — and why you should ignore every 2027 raise figure you've been shown.
Both of those numbers are in the same Census release, two lines apart. The first one gets the headline. The second one is the one that tells you what kind of economy this is.
The FTC mailed seven more "Made in the USA" warning letters on July 6. The letters aren't fines, and they say so in writing. That's not the same as saying they're harmless.
Caroline Dai left a finance career to sell a tofu snack. Two weeks after launch, it went viral. What happened next is a real small-business story — with one honest asterisk on the numbers.
Everyone tells small business owners to buy domestic. Almost nobody tells them how, or admits what it costs. Here's the honest version.
