About Online Business Check

We cover business and money news for people the financial press mostly talks past: adults over 55, and the people who run small businesses themselves.

What we do

Most business journalism is written for investors. Ours is written for the person who still pays the plumber by check, the contractor who is also the bookkeeper, the retiree who wants to know what a Federal Reserve decision does to a savings account rather than to a hedge fund.

Every article ends the same way, with a section called What This Means for You. That is the whole point of the site. If a story does not change anything for our reader, we do not run it.

How we work

We start from primary sources — the agency that took the action, the court that received the filing, the bureau that published the data — and we link to them at the bottom of every article. Where we rely on another outlet's reporting, we say so, and we do not present their work as our own verification.

When we cannot verify a number, we tell you we could not. That sentence appears in our articles more often than it appears anywhere else in financial media, and we think that is a feature.

The full detail is in our editorial standards.

How we make money

Two ways, and we would rather you hear it from us. Display advertising, served programmatically. And affiliate links, on which we earn a commission if you buy — at no extra cost to you.

Most of our articles carry no affiliate link at all, because on most stories a product link would be a forced fit. And we do not put affiliate links on articles where the reader arrives frightened — a story about a scam, a fraud, or a benefit somebody is at risk of losing is not a sales opportunity. Our affiliate disclosure spells this out.

What we are not

We are not financial advisers, and nothing we publish is financial, legal, or tax advice. We report what happened and what it does to your money. Decisions about your money are yours, and they are worth a professional's time.

We are also not neutral about accuracy. On a site read by people living on fixed incomes, a wrong number is not a small mistake. If we make one, we correct it in public.

Contact

Email us at contact@onlinebusinesscheck.com, or use the contact page. We read everything, including the mail telling us we got something wrong.

Last updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2026