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Over the last 40 years, the federal funds rate—the rate at which the Federal Reserve lends money—moved with the federal deficit. Sometimes it moved in …
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Feb 27CommentShare
The cost of settling vaccine injury cases in the last ten years is approximately the same that the program has incurred in the first twenty years of it…
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Feb 19CommentShare
Steadily increasing global temperatures have been at the heart of the climate change debate. Over the last 40 years, the National Aeronautic and Space …
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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 l…
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Jan 29CommentShare
In March of 2020, researchers from the cybersecurity service Vulnerability.com published a blog post listing Microsoft subdomains that they had taken o…
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The story of Solyndra has been repeated often. A California startup with an innovative technology for solar power received a $535 million loan guarante…
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Jan 17CommentShare
The 2020 election is set to break numerous records in the number of ballots cast in a U.S. election and the number of those ballots cast by mail. As a …
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Dec 23, 2020CommentShare
Two potential vaccines for the COVID-19 virus have been announced from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna pharmaceuticals with success rates of 95% and 90% re…
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Dec 15, 2020CommentShare
According to state registration data, more people voted in North Carolina's 2020 election for president than were confirmed as a resident of the state …
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Dec 8, 2020CommentShare
In September of this year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the FinCen Files—a leak of suspicious activity rep…
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Nov 29, 2020CommentShare
Nursing homes have been at the center of the COVID pandemic as the disease largely affects elderly populations. Since the end of May, over 65,000 death…
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Nov 20, 2020CommentShare
A May 2016 report by ProPublica revealed a stark finding. A commonly used statistical tool used by criminal justice professionals to predict criminal r…
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Nov 15, 2020CommentShare
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