Investigative Economics

27 Episodes
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By: Llewellyn Jones

Investigative and data-driven independent news combining forensic statistics and economics www.investigativeeconomics.org

Episode 25: Oil and Gas vs. Oil and Gas
05/03/2025



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Episode 24: Throwing Gold Bars Off the Federal Titanic
02/22/2025



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Episode 23: Obamacare, UnitedHealth, and Medical-Loss Ratios
12/12/2024

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
10/30/2024



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Episode 21: Mental Health and The Homeless Epidemic
08/30/2024



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Episode 20: California Solar Costs
06/01/2024



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Episode 19: The Academic Cash Pile
05/14/2024



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Episode 18: Financial Crisis Redux Part III, Bankruptcies and Shadow MBS Markets
04/16/2024



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Episode 17: Currency, Textiles, Immigration and Honduras
03/21/2024



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Episode 16: The Symptom Bias In HIV/AIDS Statistics
02/27/2024



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Episode 15: Just One More Climate Episode
02/19/2024



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Episode 14: More Climate
01/12/2024



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Episode 13: The Climate, Sun, and Antarctica
12/15/2023



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Episode 12: D.C. Crime and Prosecution Rates
11/10/2023



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Episode 11: Financial Crisis Redux Part II, Of Bears and Acorns
08/17/2023



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Episode 10: Financial Crisis Redux, Part I
08/12/2023

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Episode 10: Voting Data Irregularities
06/20/2023



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Episode 9: Trains, Trains, Trains
04/28/2023



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Episode 9: Mississippi, Water Quality, and the EPA
02/19/2023



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Episode 8: Unreliable Maternal Mortality Metrics
02/15/2023



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Episode 7: Bitcoin Forex, Inflation, and Regulation
12/30/2022



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Episode 6: Haitian Gangs and Oil
11/21/2022



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Episode 5: Energy Since Enron
11/03/2022



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Episode 4: Inflation Myths
10/13/2022



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Podcast Episode 3: All Things California
09/01/2022

Note: California announced a plan to preserve Diablo Canyon after this episode was recorded.



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Podcast Episode 2: All Things Coronavirus
05/25/2022

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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011
04/27/2022

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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