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.
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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.
What federal law actually requires of a political ad's disclaimer
A 2026 FEC rule sets the legal floor for who must be named as an ad's payor online — and platform policies like Google's verification system go well beyond it, with their own gaps.
The Single Vote That Can Overrule the World
Article 27 of the UN Charter lets any one of five countries block a Security Council resolution outright, a design built for great-power peace rather than swift justice.
What Small Importers Now Owe After the $800 De Minimis Exemption Ends
A CBP rule that took effect June 24, 2026 ends duty-free entry for most low-value shipments, forcing small importers into formal customs procedures.
Pay transparency laws aren't closing the wage gap. They're raising wages.
A growing list of states now force employers to post a real salary range. The best evidence on what that actually does isn't the story most people expect.
Enforce and Protect Act Sets Fixed Deadlines for Customs Duty-Evasion Investigations
How CBP investigates allegations that an importer evaded antidumping or countervailing duties: the statutory clocks, the interim measures that bite before any finding, and the confidential-information rules the Federal Circuit forced open.
Federal Law Sets a Five-Year Floor on Gift Card Expiration
A 2009 amendment to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, enforced through Regulation E, bars most store and prepaid gift cards from expiring in under five years and caps dormancy fees, with carve-outs shoppers rarely see printed on the card.
What the WARN Act Actually Owes Workers When a Plant Closes
Sixty days' notice is the whole of the federal promise — and the record shows how often it is narrower, shorter, or unenforced than the phrase suggests.
What Actually Counts as a "News Desert"
Researchers use the term loosely in conversation but precisely in the data. Here's what the numbers behind it actually measure — and what they leave out.
Prime Rate Holds at 6.75%: What It Costs Your Business Loan
75% — here is how that number actually reaches a line of credit or an SBA 7(a) loan.
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