August 3, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page & Kayla Page  |  12 min read   On July 15, 2026, Stripe made a $53 billion offer to acquire PayPal and its 439 million consumer accounts. PayPal rejected it. The negotiations are still open. And how this deal resolves will determine what it costs your business to accept payments for the future. $53.4BProposed Deal Valuation Stripe and Advent Internati...

July 27, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page & Kayla Page  |  12 min read On April 24, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that it had referred approximately 562,000 delinquent pandemic-era loans totaling $22.2 billion to the U.S. Department of Treasury for collection, calling it the largest fraud-referral package in SBA history. For entrepreneurs and small business owners, this is more...

July 21, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page and Kayla Page  |  8 min read California's wealth is not disappearing. It is being restructured, relocated, redeployed, and Florida's Gulf Coast is where the numbers keep pointing. The I-75 corridor from Tampa to Naples is absorbing a concentrated wave of high-income professionals, business operators, and investors who have made a deliberate geographic and financia...

July 13, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page & Kayla Page | 10 min read In January 2026, President Trump announced support for a one year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. The announcement drew immediate responses from consumer advocates, banking institutions, and lawmakers across the political spectrum. Supporters say it would save Americans billions in interest. Institutions that issue credit say it would...

July 6, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page and Kayla Page | 8 min A recent Forbes analysis spotlighted a shift that has been quietly reshaping how experienced professionals think about their careers. Rather than pursuing the next promotion, a growing number of executives, consultants, lawyers, and accountants are choosing to buy existing businesses instead. The convergence of retiring business owners, accessible acqu...

June 29, 2026

Contributors: Ari Page and Kayla Page When a city loses its small businesses, it loses something harder to rebuild than infrastructure. The storefronts can be repaired. The inventory can be replaced. What takes years to rebuild is the economic fabric that independent businesses weave into a community the jobs, the identity, the reason people choose to live and spend there. Asheville, North Carolin...