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How Inflation Jump Skews Short-Term GDP, Labor, Trade Metrics
In the first quarter of 2022, U.S. productivity dropped as real gross domestic product (GDP) fell for the first time since the beginnings of the…
Llewellyn Jones
May 11
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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011
Listen now (17 min) | The first episode of the Investigative Economics podcast covers our recent stories on the high-profile bankruptcies in the…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 27
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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011
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What Stopped Lithium Production in 2010
Around 2010 to 2015, global lithium production plateaued. Demand for the main ingredient in lithium-ion batteries had been steadily growing over the…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 19
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2018's Sudden Drop in Cancer Incidence
Cancer rates have been in decline for decades, often attributed to changes in habits, new approaches to cancer treatments and early detection. But in…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 14
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Hunter Biden-Affiliated Metabiota and Its Non-Existent Failure on Ebola
Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics. It's currently gotten some attention because it received funding…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 1
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Few Mail Theft Arrests Despite Widespread Anecdotal Accounts
A previous version of this story was published only for a subset of subscribers. An updated version is being published for all subscribers. Since 2005…
Llewellyn Jones
Mar 30
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Government Still Buying Lenovo Laptops Despite Foreign Ownership, Prior Security Issues
Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the…
Llewellyn Jones
Mar 19
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Ukrainian Debt, Military Spending, and Energy
Ukraine has been in deep debt for some time now from spending on natural gas contracts, natural gas infrastructure, the steep buildup of its military…
Llewellyn Jones
Mar 7
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Ukraine LNG Prices Go Through the Roof Following Unbundling, Russian Escalation
As a conflict between Ukraine and Russia may be on the horizon, natural gas prices in Ukraine have gone through the roof. The risk of war has caused LNG…
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 20
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Restaurants, Hospitality, and Mining: The Industries Where Employees Left
The pandemic drove a collapse in employment as the economy came to a standstill. As the economy has come back, not all employees have come back and the…
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 17
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Biden Administration Trumpets GDP Numbers Driven By Massive Debt Largely From Europe
In January, the Biden White House published a press release announcing the recent highlights of the economy such as “the fastest economic growth in…
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 11
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Growth in Elderly Population Started Declining Before the Pandemic
Older populations, those 65 and older, have been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with 74 percent of COVID deaths attributed to them since 2000…
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 4
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