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How to read USDA crop reports without overreacting
Prospective Plantings, WASDE and Grain Stocks each answer a different question; an operator's guide to reading USDA reports and their revision risk.
What Does an SBA Loan Actually Cost a Small Business?
SBA 7(a) rate caps, guarantee fees, and the personal guarantee — the arithmetic a small-business owner should run before applying.
How to Calculate Your Runway and Burn Rate Without Fooling Yourself
Runway is usable cash divided by average monthly net burn — with unpaid commitments and a buffer subtracted. Here is the arithmetic founders get wrong, and the fix.
Federal Court Found Google Maintained a Search Monopoly in August 2024
Judge Amit Mehta's August 2024 ruling found Google violated Sherman Act Section 2 through exclusive default agreements; remedies followed in 2025, with appeal live.
Boeing's 17,000 Job Cuts Land on a Company Already on Strike
Boeing announced 17,000 job cuts in October 2024 while 33,000 machinists were on strike. What the record establishes about both sides' positions and the costs landing on workers and supplier towns.
How a Central Bank Digital Currency Would Change Payments
Over 130 countries are exploring CBDCs, per the Atlantic Council's 2024 tracker — but four design choices, not technology, decide the effects on fees, banks, and privacy.
How to Build a Corrections Policy Readers Can Find
Four decisions and one standing page: a practitioner's guide to corrections policy grounded in the SPJ code of ethics and BBC editorial guidelines.
Certification Deadlines Meet a Growing Folder of Election Lawsuits
Post-2024 election litigation targets certification — a ministerial duty with fixed deadlines that decide what courts can still remedy.
SBA 7(a) Fees Are Back: What Borrowers Pay After the Relief Expired
75% of the guaranteed portion. What a typical $500,000 loan now costs at closing.
Rulemaking: How a Federal Rule Actually Gets Made
From Federal Register notice to judicial review: the APA's notice-and-comment process, the OIRA clock, and the checkpoints where public influence actually concentrates.
The Grants Pass ruling reshaped homeless encampment policy — and litigation moved to the states
One year after the Supreme Court upheld camping bans in Grants Pass v. Johnson, enforcement resumed across the West and litigation moved to state constitutions.
Ireland's data regulator fined TikTok €345 million over children's accounts
The September 2023 GDPR decision targeted public-by-default settings for teens and family pairing, with remedies that change product design rather than only imposing a fine.
How Sanctions Actually Bind: The Quiet Bureaucracy of Economic Pressure
Sanctions work through lists and bank compliance departments, not headlines. How designations are made, enforced, evaded, and judged — an analysis from primary sources.
How The New York Times bundled its way past 11 million digital subscribers
4 million in 2024, per its own earnings releases — here is how the bundle mechanics worked, and what doesn't transfer.
USDA's August 2025 WASDE sized a big corn crop
4 billion bushels; what the balance sheet means for basis, storage and the September revision.
New Overtime Rule Reversal Leaves Small Employers Rewriting Payrolls Again
The 2024 overtime expansion was vacated, returning the exemption threshold to $35,568. What small employers should audit now.
The FTC's Non-Compete Ban Was Struck Down — What That Actually Means for Hiring
The FTC's non-compete ban was set aside in August 2024, leaving a state-by-state patchwork. Here is what it means for hiring, agreements, and remote teams.
Posting salary ranges shrinks pay gaps — and squeezes some raises
Nine states now force employers to disclose pay in job listings. '…
How a trade case moves from petition to duty
Antidumping cases run a statutory clock through Commerce and the ITC, with provisional duties in about seven months. Here is each step and deadline.
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Divest-or-Ban Law in Unanimous Ruling
The Court ruled 9-0 that the law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations does not violate the First Amendment. Here is what was decided and what happens next.
Core CPI Rose 2.5% Year Over Year in July
5% from a year earlier in the July 2026 report.
Ranked-Choice Voting: How the Count Actually Works
No candidate wins on election night without a majority. Here is the round-by-round mechanism that decides the winner, and why it can take days.
The EU Carbon Border Levy Starts Charging Importers
The definitive CBAM regime began on 1 January 2026, but the threshold, the deductions and the certificate calendar decide who actually pays.
How Ballot Curing Saves a Rejected Mail Ballot
A missing or mismatched signature does not automatically disqualify a mail ballot. Curing is the fix — and the deadline to use it is measured in hours, not weeks.
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