Econ Extra Credit newsletter #169

Econ Extra Credit newsletter #168

The technology’s ability to clone voices and likenesses makes authentication harder but more urgent, says Wasim Khaled of Blackbird.AI.

Reported romance scam losses in 2022 were $1.3 billion, but that’s likely an undercount.

Payday loans, high-fee check-cashing services and scams find fertile ground in a community still affected by generations of discrimination.

With new fintech comes new fraud.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released a new bulletin of consumer complaints about crypto.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will reportedly push banks to reimburse customers who lose their money through scams on apps like Paypal, Venmo and Zelle.

BuzzFeed senior Investigative reporter Jason Leopold talks about how and why banks have allegedly let trillions of ill-gotten money pass through their hands without taking action.

Early-stage Alzheimer’s linked to unwise financial decision-making and vulnerability to financial exploitation.