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Investigative Economics

@InvestigativeE

šŸ‘ļø Independent, data-driven, investigative journalism

 Washington, DC
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Joined December 2018
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Tree Ring Data Shows The Similarities To The Medieval Warm Period

What was known as Climategate was a 2009 controversy surrounding hacked emails on a server at the University of East Anglia.

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Deinstitutionalization Led to Homelessness Only After Economic Downturn

A prior Investigative Economics article detailed how moving the mentally ill out of large psychiatric institutions into outpatient care or smaller community health facilitiesā€”otherwise known as...

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The Regression To The Mean of Voter Turnout

Numerous studies have analyzed the effect of voter identification on election turnout only to come away with the same conclusion: itā€™s negligible.

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Summer Hiatus & Further Reading III

Investigative Economics is on hiatus for the rest of the summer with a potential for a story or two to be published before September.

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Deinstitutionalization and the Vague Definition of a Severely Mentally Ill Prisoner

Deinstitutionalization of the mentally illā€”moving treatment away from full-time inpatient care in mental institutions and sanitariums and towards outpatient care and psychotropic drugsā€”is commonly...

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The San Francisco Auto Break-In Loophole Is a Red Herring

According to a 2023 article from the NPR affiliate KQED, San Franciscoā€™s then-rash of car break-ins were being enabled by a loophole in the law that required prosecutors to prove that the car was...

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Episode 32: Autism, Anxiety, and Mental Illness

Investigative and data-driven independent news combining forensic statistics and economics

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More Anti-Datacenter Funding From Google's Schmidt

In December of 2025, a coalition of environmental groups signed a letter to Congress calling for a moratorium on construction of datacenters in the United States.

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Bank of England Didn't Suffer That Much From Black Wednesday

Bank of England Didn't Suffer That Much From Black Wednesday

The short version of the United Kingdomā€™s Black Wednesday, otherwise known as the ERM Crisis, is that in 1992 Britain was part of the European Monetary System (EMS) along with other countries like...

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San Francisco Dropping Lots of Narcotics Prosecutions Under Jenkins

A 2023 story in Mission Local detailed how the new district attorney for San Francisco, Brooke Jenkins, was overseeing an increase in the conviction rate in the city.

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Young Adults Are Increasingly Mentally Disabled

The COVID-19 pandemic scrambled a lot of metrics as the economy saw swift, tectonic shifts in behavior.

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Episode 31: The Actual Octopus Or Reminiscing Over the BCCI Affair

Thereā€™s no associated Investigative Economics story for this podcast episode, but here is some relevant reading on the history of BCCI:

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Episode 30: Ghost Jobs, Florida's Homelessness Mystery, and the Inslaw/PROMIS Affair

Investigative Economics is a reader-supported publication.

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The Deep, Meaningless Rabbithole of the Inslaw/PROMIS Affair

In 2024, Netflix released the four part docuseries American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders about the mysterious 1991 death of journalist Danny Casolaro and his investigation into the Inslaw/PROMIS...

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Florida's Implausible Homeless Disappearance Without Spending Any Money

Based on the Department of Housing and Urban Developmentā€™s (HUD) point-in-time survey, homelessness was in steady decline across the United States from the early 2000s through 2016.

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Mass Incarceration Correlated Significantly With Diminished Crime Rates

The sharp growth in the U.S.

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Episode 29: Chicago's Fake Fight For No-Show Jobs

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The Booming Economy For Ghost Workers

The current labor market is described as historically tight; there are many more job openings than there are unemployed workers looking for jobs.

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Despite Massive Tunnel Project, Anacostia River Still Filled With Fecal Matter

The Anacostia River Tunnel project is one part of Washington, DCā€™s Clean Rivers program, that aims to make the cityā€™s waterways healthy enough for recreation and compliant with the Clean Water Act.

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Chicago Only Pretended to Shut Down Schools and Fire Teachers

In 2013, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the largest school closures in U.S.

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