Investigative Economics
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
About
More
return
;
New
Top
Discussion
Large Discrepancy In Salary Reporting by Universities
The Department of Education collects financial statistics from universities that includes expenses such as salaries and benefits in their Integrated…
Llewellyn Jones
Sep 12, 2021
3
Comment
Share
Share this post
Large Discrepancy In Salary Reporting by Universities
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Foreign Contributions to Universities Dominated by a Few Countries
Total foreign contributions—as donations or general payments—to American universities in 2019 almost topped $4 billion. That may only be a sliver of the…
Llewellyn Jones
Oct 22, 2021
2
Comment
Share
Share this post
Foreign Contributions to Universities Dominated by a Few Countries
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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
2
Comment
Share
Share this post
2018's Sudden Drop in Cancer Incidence
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Dispute of Oil Contract in Congolese Park Presaged Human Rights Accusations
Salonga park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a 36,000 square kilometer reserve in the Congo river basin, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and…
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 30, 2021
2
Comment
Share
Share this post
Dispute of Oil Contract in Congolese Park Presaged Human Rights Accusations
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Major Pharmacy Chains Account for a Third of Opioid Distributions
Major pharmaceutical chains, specifically CVS/Caremark, Walgreen’s and Rite Aid, account for over a third of all distributions of opioids according to…
Llewellyn Jones
Jun 16, 2020
2
Comment
Share
Share this post
Major Pharmacy Chains Account for a Third of Opioid Distributions
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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
Comment
Share
Share this post
Hunter Biden-Affiliated Metabiota and Its Non-Existent Failure on Ebola
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Federal Reserve Bought Up Asset-Backed Securities As China Sold Following Financial Crisis
Asset-backed securities, specifically mortgage-backed securities, were at the center of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. These were the investments…
Llewellyn Jones
Oct 3, 2021
1
Comment
Share
Share this post
Federal Reserve Bought Up Asset-Backed Securities As China Sold Following Financial Crisis
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
The Steady Decline in Hail
Fewer frozen pellets are falling from the sky
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 5, 2021
1
Comment
Share
Share this post
The Steady Decline in Hail
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
What MoneyBall? For Most Baseball Seasons and Teams, Team Payroll Has Little Effect on Winning
The book Moneyball, published in 2003 by Michael Lewis and the movie of the same name, detailed how baseball had become purely a game of dollars. With…
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 14, 2021
1
Comment
Share
Share this post
What MoneyBall? For Most Baseball Seasons and Teams, Team Payroll Has Little Effect on Winning
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Retail Beef Price Spreads, Not Wholesale, Have Grown the Most
The Biden administration recently published a plan to deal with the growing cost of beef driven by a monopoly in the beef processing industry. Currently…
Llewellyn Jones
Jan 7
1
Comment
Share
Share this post
Retail Beef Price Spreads, Not Wholesale, Have Grown the Most
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
The Spurious Correlations' Missing Data
'Correlation does not imply causation' is an old adage of science and formal logic. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes, when two distinct events…
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 11, 2021
1
Comment
Share
Share this post
The Spurious Correlations' Missing Data
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Peer-to-Peer Lenders Struggle to Compete with Brick and Mortar Banks
Peer-to-Peer (p2p) lenders such as Social Finance (SoFi), Prosper, and LendingClub have been around for over a decade by now. They offer a new way to…
Llewellyn Jones
Jan 29, 2021
Comment
Share
Share this post
Peer-to-Peer Lenders Struggle to Compete with Brick and Mortar Banks
investigativeeconomics.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts