A rather stunning statistic from a recent segment of Planet Money’s The Indicator podcast caught my attention.
The presenter cited a new report from the Federal Trade Commission saying that Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year. “And that’s a 25% increase from the previous year.”
This week The Indicator, an almost-daily podcast about the economy from the talented team at NPR’s Planet Money, featured an episode about school vouchers.
So, what could a group of self-confessed economic geeks possibly contribute to the discussion? Especially in ten minutes.
Quite a bit, actually