The 7(a) program backed $37.3 billion in small business loans last year on a promise: run it at zero subsidy, and the taxpayer never pays. A House bill introduced this week is really a demand to see whether that promise still holds.
A CMS proposal issued July 14 would cut the rate Medicare pays physicians starting in 2027, once a temporary boost expires. A separate piece of the same rule would let some accountable care organizations erase your Part B copay entirely. Neither has happened. Both are proposals.
A house you can't tour, priced below everything around it, from a landlord who can only take a wire. The Federal Trade Commission spelled out the pattern this week, and it's built for exactly the person in a hurry to move.
NFIB's own June survey has the Optimism Index climbing to 97.4. Buried in the same report: inflation complaints at a 21-month high, and price hikes running at their fastest pace since January 2023.
A house you can't tour, priced below everything around it, from a landlord who can only take a wire. The Federal Trade Commission spelled out the pattern this week, and it's built for exactly the person in a hurry to move.
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 year ago the Mint stopped making the penny. On Tuesday the House finally voted on what should happen to your change. The answer it landed on: whatever the cashier decides.
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.
A CMS proposal issued July 14 would cut the rate Medicare pays physicians starting in 2027, once a temporary boost expires. A separate piece of the same rule would let some accountable care organizations erase your Part B copay entirely. Neither has happened. Both are proposals.
That's not an accusation from an advocacy group. It's what CMS found when it went and asked every hospital what it actually pays.
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.
The 7(a) program backed $37.3 billion in small business loans last year on a promise: run it at zero subsidy, and the taxpayer never pays. A House bill introduced this week is really a demand to see whether that promise still holds.
NFIB's own June survey has the Optimism Index climbing to 97.4. Buried in the same report: inflation complaints at a 21-month high, and price hikes running at their fastest pace since January 2023.
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.
