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Deficit Follows Federal Funds Rate Since 1980
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 …
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 27
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Huge Growth in Vaccine Settlements Over the Last Decade
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…
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 19
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Climate Temperature Barely Budged At Peak of the Leaded Gasoline Era
Steadily increasing global temperatures have been at the heart of the climate change debate. Over the last 40 years, the National Aeronautic and Space …
Llewellyn Jones
Feb 9
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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 l…
Llewellyn Jones
Jan 29
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Large Takeover of Corporate Subdomains Occurred During Same Period as SolarWinds Hack
In March of 2020, researchers from the cybersecurity service Vulnerability.com published a blog post listing Microsoft subdomains that they had taken o…
Llewellyn Jones
Jan 24
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China Flooded U.S. Silicon, Photovoltaic Market Before Collapse of Solyndra and Other Solar…
The story of Solyndra has been repeated often. A California startup with an innovative technology for solar power received a $535 million loan guarante…
Llewellyn Jones
Jan 17
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Large Growth in Voting By Mail Preceded 2020 Election
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 …
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 23, 2020
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Vaccine Success Undercut By Low Power Trial Results
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…
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 15, 2020
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In North Carolina, 101 Percent of Verified Voters Cast a Ballot in November
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 …
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 8, 2020
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Latvia, Russia Figure Prominently in FinCen Leaks
In September of this year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the FinCen Files—a leak of suspicious activity rep…
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 29, 2020
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Nursing Home Deaths Now Far Below Average
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…
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 20, 2020
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ProPublica’s Misleading Machine Bias
A May 2016 report by ProPublica revealed a stark finding. A commonly used statistical tool used by criminal justice professionals to predict criminal r…
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 15, 2020
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