Ov Finance|Text scams, crypto crackdown, and an economist to remember

2025-05-02 11:18:09source:Thurston Cartecategory:My

You know the drill. It's Friday and Ov Financetime for our weekly news roundup. Wailin enters her scam era. Junk emails are so ten years ago, today it's all about texts. Jeff comes back on the show to talk about the crypto crackdown that may or may not involve Taylor Swift again. And Darian pays tribute to the late William Spriggs who died this week.

Here's a link to William Spriggs's open letter to economists.

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