National Popular Vote Compact Divides State Legislatures
C. have pledged their electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner, reviving a state-by-state fight over how presidents are chosen.
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Job hopping stopped paying — the 2026 data shows why
New payroll data from ADP and the Atlanta Fed shows the raise gap between switching jobs and staying put has nearly closed — and for Gen Z workers, it's already reversing.
Court Vacates FTC's Expanded HSR Form, Restoring Pre-2025 Premerger Filing Rules
A February 12, 2026 judgment in the Eastern District of Texas set aside the Commission's 2024 premerger notification rule on Administrative Procedure Act grounds.
Retail Sales Fall 0.6% in July as Inflation Holds at 3.4%
Consumer spending posted its sharpest monthly drop in more than a year, even as annual retail sales growth continued to outpace headline inflation, government data show.
The Five-Day Mandate and the Rebirth of Main Street
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
How Countervailing Duty Investigations Actually Work
S. tariff — and the process runs on fixed deadlines, not politics.
How Press Forward's $500 Million Actually Reaches Newsrooms
The philanthropic coalition's pledge moves through three separate channels, and only two of its 44 local chapters were taking applications when this was reported.
Why Most Companies No Longer File Beneficial Ownership Reports
A 2025 rule change and an August 2026 final rule stripped the Corporate Transparency Act down to foreign-registered companies only.
Fed Holds Rates Steady, SBA Loan Costs Stay at 6.75%
75% prime rate and leaving open the chance the next move is up, not down.
Small Business Set-Asides: How the Rule of Two Works
A single market-research finding decides whether a federal contract is reserved for small firms — here is the threshold, the math, and the paperwork that follows.
FCC delays promised drop in prison phone call rates
A 2024 order meant to roughly halve prison and jail calling costs has been replaced with higher interim rate caps, after sheriffs, telecom vendors and Republican attorneys general pushed back on the original rules.
How political ad-transparency libraries work — and where two still fall short
Meta and TikTok both publish searchable archives of political and social-issue ads.
How Does the IMF Decide What a Country Can Borrow?
A fixed quota, not the size of the crisis, sets the ceiling on every IMF rescue — and the current effort to resize those quotas has now missed two deadlines.
What Patreon, Substack, Ghost, and YouTube actually take from creator revenue
Four platforms publish four different fee structures. Here's what each one's own documentation says creators keep, before payment processing takes its own cut.
What a Farm Storage Facility Loan costs, and who qualifies
USDA caps the facility loan at $500,000 with 15 percent down and terms of three to 12 years. Here is what the rules require, what August 2026 rates were, and how the storage cost compares.
How Does an SBA 7(a) Loan Actually Work?
The federal government doesn't lend the money directly — it guarantees part of a bank loan, and the guarantee percentage, not the program's advertised $5 million ceiling, is what actually decides who gets funded.
Employers dropped the degree requirement — hiring barely moved
A widely cited Harvard Business School–Burning Glass Institute study of more than 11,000 roles found the skills-based hiring boom changed job postings far more than it changed who actually got hired.
How a SAFE Actually Works: Cap, Discount, and Conversion
The one-document contract Y Combinator built in 2013 now covers a record 93% of pre-seed deals, per Carta — here is what its terms actually commit a founder to.
How a Section 232 tariff gets imposed
A 270-day federal investigation, a 90-day presidential decision window and a 15-day implementation deadline explain how today's 25% steel and aluminum tariffs came to be.
Fed's July Hold Extends the Plateau: Three Straight at 3.50–3.75%
75% plateau to three meetings — model flat rates and keep cash discipline.
The savings rate fell, debt rose, and the economy shrugged — so far
Households spent pandemic savings and borrowed to keep the expansion going. The data, the delinquency picture, and the real trigger.
Why Companies Go Private in Leveraged Buyouts
LBOs buy public companies with their own borrowed future cash flow — 50 to 70 percent debt. The arithmetic, stakeholders, and what happens when it fails.
Women-owned farm businesses keep growing, census data shows
Women were 36 percent of US producers and 40 percent of beginning farmers in the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Women-owned farm business growth explained.
Sustainable cadence: how creators publish for years without burning out
How creators publish for years without burnout: cadence set like a budget, formats that rest, announced seasonal breaks, and P&L-driven pacing instead of
Should the Federal Minimum Wage Rise? Both Sides' Best Case
25? The evidence on jobs and poverty, state experiments, and each side's strongest case.
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