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Prices, jobs, market moves and recalls that are about cost rather than safety — what happened, what it costs you, and which numbers are still unconfirmed.

Dutch Bros Stock Sinks After Earnings, Even With Revenue Up 32%

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026 · Updated August 11, 2026
A Dutch Bros Coffee paper cup with a green straw stands on a scuffed wooden table, its blue windmill logo and tulip stripe facing the camera, a blurred cafe interior behind it

Dutch Bros reported a strong second quarter on Wednesday, August 5, 2026 — revenue up 32.5%, profit up by a third, average sales per shop at a record, its full-year

Categories Money

Trump’s Struck-Down Tariffs: $100 Billion in Refunds Is Headed Back to Importers — Not to Shoppers

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026
Container cranes and stacked shipping containers lit at night at the Port of Oakland, with reflections on the water in the foreground

The federal government has certified roughly $100 billion in refunds of the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February and moved the money to the U.S

Categories Money Tags Donald Trump, Supreme Court

JPMorganChase Commits More Than $750 Billion to U.S. Housing Financing Through 2035

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
The JPMorgan Chase headquarters tower at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, seen from street level

JPMorganChase says it will put more than $750 billion to work in U.S. housing over the coming decade.

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Federal Student Aid Right Now: Your Own SAVE Deadline, an Auto-Pay Rate Cut by Sept. 30, and New Borrowing Caps

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026 · Updated August 7, 2026
AI-generated illustration: Federal Student Aid Right Now: Your Own SAVE Deadline, an Auto-Pay Rate Cut by Sept. 30, and New Borrowing Caps

Millions of federal student loan borrowers are on a deadline this summer, and for many of them it is a personal deadline that no one else shares.

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SpaceX Beat Estimates in Its First Earnings Report — the Stock Fell Anyway, on $18.4 Billion in Spending and the August 6 Lock-Up

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 5, 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket standing vertical on its launch pad

SpaceX’s first earnings report as a public company was, by the usual yardsticks, a strong one.

Categories Money

Salad and Go Has Closed All Its Drive-Thrus, and Dutch Bros Is Buying Most of the Sites

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 5, 2026 · Updated August 11, 2026
AI-generated illustration: Salad and Go Files for Bankruptcy and Is Closing All of Its Remaining Drive-Thrus for Good

Salad and Go, the Arizona-born chain that turned the drive-thru lane into a salad line, is going out of business entirely. The company announced Tuesday, Aug.

Categories Money

Walgreens Is Closing Fewer Than 100 Stores in 2026, Not the Whole Chain

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 4, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
AI-generated illustration: Walgreens Is Closing Fewer Than 100 Stores in 2026, Not the Whole Chain

Walgreens is shutting down some of its pharmacies this year, but the chain is not going out of business.

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2027 Social Security COLA Estimated at 3.5% to 3.6% — Official Number Comes in October

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 3, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
AI-generated illustration: 2027 Social Security COLA Estimated at 3.5% to 3.6% — Official Number Comes in October

Social Security’s annual cost-of-living raise for 2027 is not official yet, but the forecasts circulating now point to the largest increase since 2023

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