The $1 Trillion Fraud Problem: A Data Analysis
Fraud costs the US over $1 trillion a year across healthcare, tax evasion, government programs, consumer fraud and wage theft, from 20+ federal sources.
By Josh Elberg
March 27, 2026
Thoughts on building SaaS products, implementing analytics, and integrating AI into real applications.
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Build a typed Model Context Protocol server in TypeScript that exposes Supabase and Stripe to an AI agent, with zod-validated tools and read vs write safety.
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