The average effective U.S. tariff rate stood at 6.7 percent in July 2026, nearly triple the 2.3 percent rate recorded in January 2025, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s September 9, 2026 update on tariff rates and revenue. The increase held even after the Supreme Court declared the administration’s broad emergency-powers tariffs unconstitutional in […]
Read MoreThe average effective U.S. tariff rate stood at 6.7 percent in July 2026, nearly triple the 2.3 percent rate recorded in January 2025, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s September 9, 2026 update on tariff rates and revenue. The increase held even after the Supreme Court declared the administration’s broad emergency-powers tariffs unconstitutional in […]
Read MoreThe Affordable Care Act’s next open enrollment period begins November 1, and it arrives with the steepest round of proposed…
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On Q Financial, an Arizona-based mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed customers’...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s fiscal year 2027 Fair Market Rents become effective October 1, 2026, the identical…
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