David Brancaccio
speaker
2,652 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This isn't the Consumer Price Index, but the one derived from personal consumption data.
The CPI for March comes out tomorrow.
There is scientific evidence that as we age, our brains may physically change in a way that makes some, but not all of us, more vulnerable to financial exploitation.
In 2019 here, I did a deep dive into a subject that we called brains and losses.
As part of that 18-month investigation, I spent time with a school nurse still working, then at age 79, who'd lost $200,000 to fraudsters who kept calling her phones, including the call that came in while I was at her home with my recording equipment.
Yeah, over my years here, we've stayed focused on financial exploitation of older Americans.
Today, let's return to one of the voices in that Brains and Losses project to get us up to date on an innovative approach at the state level to freeze out scammers in mid-swindle.
We're joined from Florida by elder law attorney Shannon Miller with another representative case.
Shannon, good to hear your voice.
Great to reconnect.
You had a client and she lost two million dollars over several years.
Her relatives are trying to stop it.
You were trying to stop it.
And then there was the chance that she was going to lose another half million.
But that was complicated trying to stop that.
What happened?
But now there is a new new law in Florida that would help with this.
You know, as I found in my reporting, sometimes it's a call in the night from you don't even know what time zone.
You have no idea who they are or the address.
The vulnerability under Florida law before was you couldn't freeze documents.
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