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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…
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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011Listen now (17 min) | The first episode of the Investigative Economics podcast covers our recent stories on the high-profile bankruptcies in the…
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Around 2010 to 2015, global lithium production plateaued. Demand for the main ingredient in lithium-ion batteries had been steadily growing over the…
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Cancer rates have been in decline for decades, often attributed to changes in habits, new approaches to cancer treatments and early detection. But in…
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Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics. It's currently gotten some attention because it received funding…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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In January, the Biden White House published a press release announcing the recent highlights of the economy such as “the fastest economic growth in…
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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…
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