Investigative Economics

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.

Jul 12 • Llewellyn Jones

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June 2026

Deinstitutionalization and the Vague Definition of a Severely Mentally Ill Prisoner

Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill—moving treatment away from full-time inpatient care in mental institutions and sanitariums and towards…

Jun 23 • Llewellyn Jones

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May 2026

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

According to a 2023 article from the NPR affiliate KQED, San Francisco’s then-rash of car break-ins were being enabled by a loophole in the law that…

May 31 • Llewellyn Jones

Episode 32: Autism, Anxiety, and Mental Illness

May 28 • Llewellyn Jones

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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…

May 25 • Llewellyn Jones

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

The short version of the United Kingdom’s Black Wednesday, otherwise known as the ERM Crisis, is that in 1992 Britain was part of the European Monetary…

May 20 • Llewellyn Jones

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…

May 13 • Llewellyn Jones

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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.

May 7 • Llewellyn Jones

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

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

May 1 • Llewellyn Jones

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April 2026

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

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Apr 27 • Llewellyn Jones

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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…

Apr 8 • Llewellyn Jones

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March 2026

Florida's Implausible Homeless Disappearance Without Spending Any Money

Based on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) point-in-time survey, homelessness was in steady decline across the United States from…

Mar 29 • Llewellyn Jones

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