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Ecommerce profit margins: Where online sellers lose money on margins
Marketplace fees, ad commissions, and returns drain online sellers. Census counts e-commerce at 17.1 percent of retail sales; fee schedules show where margin goes.

Marketplace fees, ad commissions, and returns drain online sellers. Census counts e-commerce at 17.1 percent of retail sales; fee schedules show where margin goes.

The Federal Reserve sets interest rates, supervises banks, and lends to banks in stress. It does not set taxes or pass the budget; Congress wrote its mandate in statute.

How the technology actually works, what it is legally treated as, and why the price moves so much.