Small Business Strategy

Costs are rising unevenly, the Fed raised rates in September, and the price list a business carries into January shapes its margins for most of 2027. Here is what the evidence says about raising prices without losing customers.

Enhanced ACA subsidies expired after a Senate vote came up short, and small business owners are now paying 58% more on average. Here is the full timeline, the real cost, and what to do before November 1.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023. Here’s what that decision means for your borrowing costs, your customers, and your bottom line.

Speak Like a Human The Raven’s Eye Same insights, same sources. Switch anytime. Small Business Strategy A guy owns an auto repair shop in Chadbourn, North Carolina, and he is waiting to find out if interest rates on a new work truck loan are finally going to drop. On September 30th, the news will start

Hurricane Helene caused an estimated $59.6 billion in damage to North Carolina, and it hit nowhere near the coast. Only 5.2 percent of the damaged homes had flood insurance, and that gap is the real risk heading into this year’s peak season.

The SBA was built to help small businesses get capital and contracts big companies didn’t need. New lending rules and a proposed size-standard overhaul are working against that mission at the same time, and public comment closes September 21.

In May 2026, Colorado signed a real law regulating how businesses use AI to make decisions about hiring and financing. Most small business owners already have exposure to laws like this and do not know it yet.

Costco caps its own markup at 14 percent and pays its employees well above minimum wage. The data suggests that self-imposed discipline, not looser margins, is what built one of retail’s most durable competitive advantages.

Elite strategy firms charge up to $10,000 a day and serve 90 of the world’s 100 largest companies. Meanwhile, the 36.2 million small businesses that make up 99.9 percent of the American economy have never had access to the same caliber of thinking, and it shows in the failure statistics.