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Episode 25: Oil and Gas vs. Oil and Gas

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Episode 24: Throwing Gold Bars Off the Federal Titanic

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Episode 23: Obamacare, UnitedHealth, and Medical-Loss Ratios

For more on UnitedHealthcare Group (UHG), I highly recommend Matt Stoller’s writing on the subject at Big wherein he details how the FTC under Khan lost an attempt at stopping UHC’s merger with Change Healthcare despite the company’s shady past of repeatedly defrauding Medicare, manipulating stock, and thousands of unfair claim settlement violations among other issues.
The judge on the case gave a nonsensical ruling and likely should not have presided over the case considering he owned stock in the company.
There’s also more detail about how UHG works around medical loss rat...
Episode 22: Garbage (And Recycling) Metrics

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Episode 21: Mental Health and The Homeless Epidemic

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Episode 20: California Solar Costs

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Episode 19: The Academic Cash Pile

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Episode 18: Financial Crisis Redux Part III, Bankruptcies and Shadow MBS Markets

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Episode 17: Currency, Textiles, Immigration and Honduras

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Episode 16: The Symptom Bias In HIV/AIDS Statistics

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Episode 15: Just One More Climate Episode

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Episode 14: More Climate

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Episode 13: The Climate, Sun, and Antarctica

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Episode 12: D.C. Crime and Prosecution Rates

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Episode 11: Financial Crisis Redux Part II, Of Bears and Acorns

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Episode 10: Financial Crisis Redux, Part I

Other stories in this series:
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Episode 10: Voting Data Irregularities

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Episode 9: Trains, Trains, Trains

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Episode 9: Mississippi, Water Quality, and the EPA

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Episode 8: Unreliable Maternal Mortality Metrics

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Episode 7: Bitcoin Forex, Inflation, and Regulation

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Episode 6: Haitian Gangs and Oil

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Episode 5: Energy Since Enron

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Episode 4: Inflation Myths

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Podcast Episode 3: All Things California

Note: California announced a plan to preserve Diablo Canyon after this episode was recorded.
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Podcast Episode 2: All Things Coronavirus

Stories covered in this episode:
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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011

The first episode of the Investigative Economics podcast covers our recent stories on the high-profile bankruptcies in the renewable energy industry around 2011, when Romney accused the government of picking “losers.”
We’ll be covering the following stories:
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