2025-07-10
9 分钟This is the Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Jarrion Woods and...
Back with me for a second today in a row is friend of the show,
Steven Versaha from the Gulf States Newsroom.
Good to be back with you, Darian.
And today I have a very different story for you about small businesses, like the Little House.
It's this neighborhood bar in New Orleans,
the kind of place where you can sip wine
while surrounded by taxidermied alligators and chicken feet.
We're swamp chic.
if you will.
Swapstika, I hadn't heard that one before.
That is the bar's owner, Hilary Hanning.
You look around, we've got taxidermy and all kinds of stuff, but it's like,
encompassed with this very bougie-esque,
really cool boutique wine selection and fun cocktails and stuff.
It's struggling to death, but we're having fun.
Now, the real reason we're here is the source of some of that struggle.
Hillary's been dealing with a problem that's harmed thousands of small businesses and caused many to shut down.
We're talking about cybercrime.