A New Jersey federal judge held that bare verification-code text messages are not “advertisements” or “telephone solicitations” under the TCPA and dismissed the plaintiff’s claims with prejudice, while also ordering him to show cause why he should not be sanctioned ...

Skyrocketing inflation, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty are devastating markets, forcing layoffs and closures across Iran As Iran’s economic crisis deepens, soaring prices, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty about the future are pushing businesses across the country into ...

A recent federal court decision is providing important clarity for debt collectors and other businesses that rely on voicemail outreach, holding that “human-sounding” voicemails can still qualify as prerecorded messages under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The ruling addresses ...

Credit card delinquencies really have surged over the last few years, and they’re now around or above post‑GFC territory in several data series, which is a clear signal of mounting consumer financial strain. What’s actually happening in the data Federal ...

fell by 12% year on year in April, meaning noticeably fewer businesses were declared bankrupt than in April a year earlier, but the broader trend is only slightly downward rather than collapsing. What the 12% drop means A 12% year‑on‑year ...

Show summary Hide summary Private credit defaults reached a record high of 6.0% in the twelve months ended April 2026, according to Fitch Ratings, marking the most stressed environment in the modern lending cycle. This milestone reflects a fundamental shift ...

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment of profound uncertainty about the future of human work and human purpose. The document is formally rooted in Catholic social teaching, but its central questions belong to everyone: What ...

Cox Media Group is facing a nearly $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over an AI-powered “Active Listening” advertising service that the agency says falsely claimed to harvest conversations from smart devices to serve targeted ads to consumers ...

The HSBC lion sleeps tonight when it comes to AI job cuts Back in March, it was leaked that banking giant HSBC was planning to cut as many as 20,000 jobs globally over the next three to five years as ...