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3 days ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
As of April 22, many compounding pharmacies will have to stop selling their own versions of the popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. That’s because the FDA . Federal law allows compounding pharmacies to make copies of name brand drugs if and only if there’s a supply shortage. It can be hard to get these drugs covered by insurance — at least, if they’re justfor weight loss rather than for diabetes.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
When word got out about the impending closure of Leyenda, a fixture in its Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood, the place started filling up early every night. “Everyone wants to get a piece now that we're closing,” owner Ivy Mix said with a laugh. “I mean, I get it. I've gone to places when they close. … But the other part of me is like, ‘Where were you? Where were you, though?’”Mix opened Leyenda, a pan-Latin cocktail bar and restaurant, in the upscale Boerum Hill area in the spring of 2015.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on practically all goods coming into the United States on Wednesday. Many countries, along with the European Union, promised to respond with sanctions of their own. One of the president’s goals with all these tariffs is to get more companies to make more products here in the U.S. To do that, many would need to build new factories and hire a whole lot of people to work at those factories.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
More than 60% of all purchases last year were made with a credit or debit card, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s up from 45% in 2016. That means big money for credit card companies, which made more than $187 billion last year in processing fees alone. For businesses that take credit cards — especially smaller ones — it’s an increasingly large expense.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
It’s been five years since restaurants and other businesses around the country were required to close to the public because of COVID. It was abrupt and dramatic yet also feels like lifetimes ago. But a lot of small businesses are still dealing with the financial fallout today — including the cost of repaying COVID-era loans they took out to survive in 2020 and 2021. When the pandemic hit, Michael Shemtov owned 10 restaurants in Charleston and Nashville.
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