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Small Business · 7 CFR part 1212, AMS-SC-25-0122, final rule filed 8.45 a.m. Eastern, 28 August 2026

The honey levy is rising by half a cent a pound in two steps, and of the forty comments against it exactly one came from somebody who pays it

The National Honey Board assessment goes from 1.5 cents a pound to 1.75 on 1 September and 2 cents on 1 January 2027. It is owed only above 250,000 pounds a year.

Money & World ·August 28, 2026

Forty comments opposed the increase. One of them came from somebody who has to pay it.

The Agricultural Marketing Service filed a final rule on Friday morning lifting the assessment that funds the National Honey Board. From 1 September the rate goes from $0.015 to $0.0175 per pound of assessable honey and honey products, and on 1 January 2027 it reaches $0.02. It then stays there until it is modified or terminated.

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Personal Finance

Social Security has withdrawn the 1990 ruling that governed how rental subsidies count against SSI, and the withdrawal changes nothing for anyone

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Economics

Commerce has finished its dumping case on Chinese truck trailers at 130.86 percent, and the rate comes straight off the petition because no Chinese company answered

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Small Business

Intrusion borrowed $1.5m to buy the last 40 percent of a company it already controlled, and if the note is still outstanding in 90 days the balance becomes $1.9m

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Tax

The IRS has filed ten corrections to its one-month-year foreign tax proposal, and one of them turns the last day of a partnership's year into the first

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The EEOC gets 7,514 requests a year for a hearing before its administrative judges and holds 304 of them, and it now proposes to stop taking the requests

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The Fish and Wildlife Service is ending annual rulemaking for migratory bird hunting seasons, and every commenter except two asked it not to move to a three-year cycle

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Finance

Lockheed Martin replaced its 364-day credit line three months before the old one was due to expire, and paid nothing to get out of it

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BioXcel filed for Chapter 11 with Teva already signed up as the floor bidder, and most of what Teva might pay depends on an application the FDA has not decided

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Fort Myers

The relocation pages price Fort Myers housing below the national average. The federal statistic prices it a quarter above.

Two pages ranking on the first result set for this question put Fort Myers housing below the national average. The federal price parity puts it 25 percent above, and the gap is not a rounding difference. It is the difference between measuring what a house sells for and measuring what a house rents for.

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Same people, same work, half the rate

A benefits consultant who moved one account from 16.8 percent of payroll to under 9 percent without changing anything about the work, a fulfilment operator whose premium rose 14 percent in a year his claims fell, and a Minnesota lawyer who pays 158 dollars and has never claimed.

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The file everybody quotes has no column called default

The 7(a) loan-level file discloses five outcomes and default is not among them. Everything currently going wrong sits in a category withheld under a disclosure exemption, which is why the same 1.9 million records support answers that differ by a factor of fifteen.

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Southwest Florida

Naples, Fort Myers, Cape Coral and the rest of Collier and Lee

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Cape Coral has opened a new precautionary boil water notice at 4612 SW 3rd Avenue after a water main break on Friday morning, one day after the city cleared its last four

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The Lee County sheriff says a 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the death of the woman found inside a home on Haviland Avenue in Lehigh Acres, the investigation this desk covered on Thursday when nobody would say what it was about

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A woman and her dog were found dead in a swimming pool at a home on Colonial Walk North in Estero, and the two Southwest Florida newsrooms carrying the story do not agree on which night it happened

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NeoGenomics, the Fort Myers cancer diagnostics company, says Medicare will now cover its RaDaR ST test for immunotherapy monitoring, a third covered indication

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Tax

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The rule governing arbitration of out-of-network medical bills took effect on 3 August with the paragraph making the arbitrator's decision binding missing from its text

A correcting amendment lists 36 errors in the June rule, among them the omitted paragraph stating that a certified arbitrator's payment determination binds the parties. It applies back to 3 August.

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The IRS is telling the people who took an extension not to wait for 15 October, and Free File stays open to them at an income of $89,000 or less

Oklahoma voters have refused, by close to three to one, to let their Legislature decide what local government gets paid back for a five year manufacturing tax break

Governors redraw the Opportunity Zone map next year, and the federal auditor puts it plainly: about a third of the current zones would not qualify to stay on it

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Accounting

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Deloitte will pay $21.5m to close a False Claims Act case over the anti-discrimination clause in its federal contracts, and the group that brought it takes exactly one fifth

Five Deloitte partnerships have agreed to pay the United States $21.5m over allegations they falsely certified compliance with the anti-discrimination clause in federal contracts. The whistleblower receives $4.3m.

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Syntec Optics dismissed its auditor on the same day it appointed the next one, and the five material weaknesses named in the filing are the five it disclosed in March

Intuit will stop taking share-based compensation out of its adjusted numbers, and the fiscal 2027 guidance it published on Tuesday is measured against a base $2,056m lower than the one it reported

Accounting stopped recognising troubled debt restructurings in 2022. The Farm Credit rulebook caught up on Monday

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Finance

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POSCO says it has a $700m credit facility for its Argentine lithium unit, and the lender's own project record puts $250m of that on IDB Invest's books

POSCO Holdings said on Friday that its Argentine unit had secured a $700m credit facility from the IDB Group. The lender's project record splits it into $250m from IDB Invest and $450m from commercial banks.

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Korea's growth fund announced 1.6 trillion won of approvals on Thursday, and the money its own detail pages attribute to the state comes to 1.19 trillion

Samsung Biologics will pay for its Swiss acquisition with new shares instead of borrowings, and the two filings that say so landed the same morning

The SEC has sued 38 entities it says used its own adviser filing system to look real, and has pulled all 38 sets of filings off its website

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Economics

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The nuclear regulator has cancelled the mandatory hearing on a Kentucky uranium enrichment plant and reopened the contested case its own board had closed

The Commission acted on its own motion to put the Global Laser Enrichment case on the procedure it set for Orano at Oak Ridge this month. The reopened contested proceeding now serves as the required hearing.

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Tokyo inflation excluding fresh food and energy is back at 2.0 percent, and rent supplied the largest single push

Japan's employment growth has gone from 640,000 to nothing in four months, and the jobless rate fell anyway

The Bank of Korea has added $200bn to its current account forecast in three months, and now expects a surplus of $450.0bn this year

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World

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South Korea's broadcasting regulator has cut three months off the approval terms of two news channels, and it says their largest shareholders are the reason the law is not being followed

The commission shortened the approval validity of YTN and Yonhap News TV by three months on Friday and ordered both to comply by 10 October. Neither has formed the president recommendation committee the law requires.

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The flags came down on Wednesday, and the proclamation that ordered it reached public inspection at a quarter past eleven this morning, five days before it lifts

An executive order signed this afternoon renames Lake Ontario as Lake America, gives the Interior Secretary 30 days to do it, and directs that every reference to the old name be taken out of the federal names database

Ten arms sales notices reached public inspection in a single batch this morning, and the two largest of them are 800 air-to-air missiles for Qatar and 20,000 guidance sections for Saudi Arabia

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Technology

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TSMC has held 73 percent of the pure-play foundry market for two quarters running, and every rival on the table is flat or lower than it was a year ago

Counterpoint Research put pure-play foundry revenue up 29 percent on the year in the second quarter. TSMC held 73 percent of it for a second consecutive quarter, against 7 percent for Samsung Foundry.

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South Korea has picked three companies to build a national artificial intelligence service, and it is not publishing the marks because the entrants asked it not to

SK hynix broke ground in Indiana on Thursday, and the two releases issued about the same ceremony count the jobs at 1,000 and at 7,000

PagerDuty is cutting about 15 percent of its headcount in the same filing that reports a fifth consecutive profitable quarter and $470m of cash

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Personal Finance

The Harry S Truman Building in Washington seen along its side elevation on a bright spring day, a long pale facade of regularly spaced windows above a clipped hedge and a mown lawn, with a plane tree in the foreground. A dark blue sign on metal posts at the left reads DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

The State Department wants Americans abroad to renew passports online, and of the $148.7m a year it counts as the benefit, $19m is calculated on them

The proposed rule would end the two in-person consular visits and drop the requirement that a passport have a year or less left to run. State puts the yearly saving at $148,685,935.

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The Labor Department has spent almost six years clearing a Puerto Rico 401(k) plan's sale of stock rights that raised $6,550.33 for its members

A 401(k) saver suing over her employer's fund switch does not have to find a matching fund to compare it with, the Eleventh Circuit has ruled

The Railroad Retirement Board has called a second part of its rulebook facially unlawful, and this one decides whether the Board or Social Security pays a railroad worker

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Small Business

The Postal Service is raising the price of every domestic shipping product it sells by 6.0 percent for the fifteen weeks that cover the holidays, and rolling them back on 17 January

Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select all rise 6.0 percent on average at midnight on 4 October, and all return to approved levels on 17 January.

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The mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts and the state representative for the same city were both charged this week over pandemic disaster loans, in indictments unsealed on the same day

A storm that lasted two days in April has produced a federal disaster loan declaration in late August, and businesses in seven Kansas counties now have until May to apply

A jury in St. Louis took about an hour to convict a former visiting pastor on all twenty counts, in a case the government built on roughly forty pandemic loans taken out in the names of his parishioners

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Hard Assets

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The Mint has set prices for three 2026 products, and the price of the gold one is to be determined

A United States Mint notice sets retail prices effective 14 August. The 25 coin roll works out at $2.44 a coin and the 100 coin bag at $1.545. The gold proof coin is listed as TBD.

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Import restrictions on Nepali antiquities take effect the day they print, and the five year term they run on started seven months ago

An unrestored Mustang Boss 429 brought $1,045,000, a record for the model, at Barrett-Jackson's first Columbus auction

Hagerty's market rating slipped to 58.59 as the gap between blue chip cars and the rest widened to 27 points

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Treasury yields

Maturity	Yield	Change
3-MO	3.84%	-1bp
6-MO	3.94%	unch
1-YR	4.04%	+2bp
2-YR	4.20%	+1bp
3-YR	4.30%	+1bp
5-YR	4.38%	+1bp
7-YR	4.52%	+1bp
10-YR	4.67%	+1bp
20-YR	5.18%	+1bp
30-YR	5.19%	+1bp

US Treasury par yield curve · Aug 27 · Source: U.S. Treasury. Changes in basis points against the previous session.

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