ZerroHedge is reporting that Political missed a staff payday, and believes the cut of USAID funding may be why, as Politico got millions in government money, including some USAID money for subscriptions:
Original: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government
Archive: https://archive.is/gkrOV
Once you have a working system that has been in operation for long enough, its very likely that they cut back to the barest minimum. Which could be paying their employees with the check they get the day before from the government. That would also mean they both might not recognize or be quick enough to use the cash on hand to solve the issue because of how used they are to not thinking about it.
Exactly, they might be doing their own form of living paycheck to paycheck like us poors do.
Even a company that's doing well, what are they supposed to do, leave their millions in cash just sat there to immediately access and be stolen by inflation? And not earn interest?
They're running by just-in-time inventory and payroll. Because the gov punishes you for not. Which is insane.