Investigative Economics
Investigative and data-driven independent news combining forensic statistics and economics
Llewellyn Jones
Show overview
Investigative Economics has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 34 episodes. That works out to roughly 20 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 24 min and 47 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 5 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 10 episodes published. Published by Llewellyn Jones.
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Investigative and data-driven independent news combining forensic statistics and economics www.investigativeeconomics.org
Latest Episodes
View all 34 episodesEpisode 32: Autism, Anxiety, and Mental Illness
Episode 31: The Actual Octopus Or Reminiscing Over the BCCI Affair
Episode 30: Ghost Jobs, Florida's Homelessness Mystery, and the Inslaw/PROMIS Affair
Episode 29: Chicago's Fake Fight For No-Show Jobs
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Episode 28: The State Political Fraud Pipeline
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Episode 27: Distorted Economic Metrics or A Tale of Two Economies
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Episode 26: Local Funding of the Soros Network
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Episode 25: Oil and Gas vs. Oil and Gas
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Episode 24: Throwing Gold Bars Off the Federal Titanic
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Episode 23: Obamacare, UnitedHealth, and Medical-Loss Ratios
For more on UnitedHealthcare Group (UHG), I highly recommend Matt Stoller’s writing on the subject at Big wherein he details how the FTC under Khan lost an attempt at stopping UHC’s merger with Change Healthcare despite the company’s shady past of repeatedly defrauding Medicare, manipulating stock, and thousands of unfair claim settlement violations among other issues.The judge on the case gave a nonsensical ruling and likely should not have presided over the case considering he owned stock in the company. There’s also more detail about how UHG works around medical loss ratios through consolidation.Investigative Economics is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Investigative Economics at www.investigativeeconomics.org/subscribe
Episode 22: Garbage (And Recycling) Metrics
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Episode 21: Mental Health and The Homeless Epidemic
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Episode 20: California Solar Costs
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Episode 19: The Academic Cash Pile
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Episode 18: Financial Crisis Redux Part III, Bankruptcies and Shadow MBS Markets
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Episode 17: Currency, Textiles, Immigration and Honduras
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Episode 16: The Symptom Bias In HIV/AIDS Statistics
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Episode 15: Just One More Climate Episode
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Episode 14: More Climate
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Episode 13: The Climate, Sun, and Antarctica
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