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.
The Forever Stamp went to 82 cents this week. Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress in June that the agency is out of cash and borrowing from its own employees' retirement fund. Those two facts sit on the same page. If you still mail a check, so do you.
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.
Caroline Dai left a finance career to sell a tofu snack. Two weeks after launch, it went viral. What happened next is a real small-business story — with one honest asterisk on the numbers.
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 bill to change that just cleared a House committee. It wouldn't stop check fraud. It would just give banks more time to catch it before the money is gone.
Positive pay is the standard defense. It also, in its basic form, ignores the one line on the check that thieves change most.
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.
It held $3.65 million in deposits. The whole thing was over by Monday morning. But the mechanics are worth knowing, because one of them costs people money and almost nobody warns them.
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.
Small businesses spent last year absorbing what they couldn't pass on. New Fed research says about half of them still have price increases queued up, and most of those land within six months.
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 Forever Stamp went to 82 cents this week. Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress in June that the agency is out of cash and borrowing from its own employees' retirement fund. Those two facts sit on the same page. If you still mail a check, so do you.
Caroline Dai left a finance career to sell a tofu snack. Two weeks after launch, it went viral. What happened next is a real small-business story — with one honest asterisk on the numbers.
NFIB's June survey found more Main Street owners trying to fill jobs than in May. Fewer of them raised pay to do it. Normally those two lines move together.
The exploit that seized Instagram accounts at the end of May didn't break anything. It just asked politely. And it failed against every account that had two-factor switched on.
