Introduction In November 2025, Moody’s Ratings warned that 2026 would be the year one in six private colleges could no longer cover day-to-day costs with the cash their operations bring in. Nine months into that year, most of the evidence points the same way, though not everywhere. The agency projected that 16% of private institutions...
Introduction The Department of Homeland Security said on Sept. 25, 2026, that it is “reducing your rent,” crediting immigration enforcement for falling rents in states that cooperate most with ICE. In a post on X, the agency said Texas accounted for about a quarter of ICE arrests in July and posted the country’s sharpest rent...
New York’s mobile sports betting tax is usually reported as a win for the state and its schools. Two numbers rarely appear alongside it: what bettors lost to produce that revenue, and whether schools actually receive more money because of it. The first can be calculated directly from the tax rate. For the widely cited...
Intro On Sept. 16, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its policy rate a quarter point. The decision, approved unanimously 12-0, brought the target range to 3.75%–4% and marked the first hike since July 2023. Updated projections showed a strong majority of officials expect another increase before year-end. Two weeks earlier, that outcome was not the...
More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta...
Editor’s note disclosure: NexfinityNews accepts no pharmaceutical advertising and has no financial interest in the outcome of the rulemaking described in this article. We are stating that because this article argues other outlets should state theirs. Intro A rule due from the Food and Drug Administration in December would end most prescription drug advertising on...
A Ukrainian drone started a fire at an industrial site in Novy Urengoy on Wednesday, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district just south of the Arctic Circle. Regional governor Dmitry Artyukhov said air defenses repelled the attack and falling debris caused the blaze, and that there were no deaths or injuries. He did not identify the...
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the first quarter of 2026. In the second quarter, revenue grew 4.7 percent year-on-year to €556.4 billion the second straight quarter of growth, and by conventional reading, a recovery. Over the same twelve months, German industry...
On September 8, Canada begins collecting tariffs of 15, 25 and 50 percent on more than 700 categories of American goods, matching the 50 percent duties Washington imposed on roughly $27.6 billion in Canadian products on August 22. Prime Minister Mark Carney described the American action in the language of armed conflict. “You’re at war...
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to approximately $18 billion and rebuild how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, ending a federal trial in Oakland eight days after it began and before Mark Zuckerberg ever took the stand. The deal resolves claims by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general that Meta engineered its platforms...