Business and market developments driven by political decisions: tax bills, tariff schedules, agency appointments, subsidy programs and procurement changes. Items identify the industries exposed and the timing of any effect. Read by corporate affairs teams, investors and analysts pricing political risk.
Business coverage from a political angle: tax and tariff decisions, regulatory appointments, procurement shifts, and the sectors most exposed.
A 2025 rule change and an August 2026 final rule stripped the Corporate Transparency Act down to foreign-registered companies only. Here is who still has to file, by what deadline, and what happens to the millions of reports already collected.
Asha Venkataswamy
The Supreme Court held on February 20 that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs — since then, importers, Customs and the surviving 232/301 lanes have been working out what money moves and which duties stay.
Asha Venkataswamy
The government buys over $700 billion a year, and a quarter of prime contract dollars is reserved for small businesses — if the firm is registered, sized right, and found in the right pool.
Asha Venkataswamy
Decisions issued in the first week of June went the regulators' way in cases testing agency authority over communications and securities markets — a signal for the regulatory dockets ahead.
Asha Venkataswamy
Advanced-semiconductor restrictions run on licenses, entity lists and country groups — a Commerce Department process companies can read in the regulations rather than the headlines.
Asha Venkataswamy