Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Federal enforcement of the hospital price posting rules began in April
Hospitals were required to start following a new, stricter set of federal price-posting rules on January 1 of this year. But the government didn’t start enforcing those specific new requirements right away. Enforcement of the updated rules didn’t begin until three months later, on April 1, and that gap was deliberate. A Rule Change Tracing…
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The recalled cleaners were sold only in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and a refund means registering the bottle
Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico recalled about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil cleaners on September 3, 2026, and the company’s own recall notice makes a point that’s easy to miss in a headline built around the Clorox name: these products were never distributed outside Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
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Clorox is refunding 6.3 million bottles of Mistolin and Lestoil cleaner
Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico is recalling about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil multi-purpose cleaners after testing turned up the possibility of bacterial contamination. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on September 3, 2026, and the company’s remedy is a full refund, not a replacement bottle or a…
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He owes $77,683,091.96 after spending investor money on a plane, a cabin and an $80,000 hunting trip
A federal judge in Utah ordered Matthew Shane Perkins to repay investors $77,683,091.96, an amount spelled out down to the penny in the court’s restitution order. That number isn’t money already returned to anyone. It’s the debt a judge says Perkins now owes on top of a 15-year prison sentence handed down September 3, 2026.…
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A former Regions Bank employee is permanently barred from banking over check fraud
A former relationship banker at a Regions Bank branch in Memphis has been permanently prohibited from working in banking again after federal regulators found she took part in a scheme that cashed counterfeit and fraudulent checks. The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors finalized the consent order in early August and announced it publicly days later,…
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The three employees banned this month worked at Centra in Indiana, Tongass in Alaska and OneAZ in Arizona
Three credit unions in three different states each had a former employee permanently barred from the industry this year, and the National Credit Union Administration named every institution and individual when it announced the orders. None of the three credit unions is in any regulatory trouble itself; each order applies only to the person who…
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Three former credit union employees are barred for life from any insured institution
The National Credit Union Administration has permanently barred three former credit union employees from ever working in banking again, using an enforcement tool the agency applies more often than most account holders realize. The orders close out separate misconduct cases at three federally insured credit unions without a criminal trial, based on each person’s written…
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Select beef rose $3.51 in a day to $354.23 per hundred pounds
Buying the lower beef grade to save money is a strategy plenty of households lean on, but this week that strategy got a little less rewarding. USDA’s daily wholesale price report shows Select beef jumped $3.51 in a single day to $354.23 per hundred pounds, even as the higher Choice grade slipped. The two prices…
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Wholesale Choice beef ran $375.03 per hundred pounds this month, with the cattle herd at its smallest since 1961
The price the grocery store pays for beef moved again this week, and it’s moving against a backdrop that hasn’t looked this thin in more than six decades. USDA’s daily wholesale report puts the Choice beef cutout at $375.03 per hundred pounds, the level that sets what retailers pay before a steak or roast ever…
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Chicago asking rents are up 5.1 percent to $2,253, one of the fastest climbs among the big metros
Chicago’s typical asking rent reached $2,253 in July, up 5.1% from a year earlier, according to Zillow, one of the faster increases among the large metros the company tracks even though Chicago rarely shows up in headlines about expensive housing markets. The city’s rent growth now outpaces famously tight coastal markets like Los Angeles, up…