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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011
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Podcast: The Renewable Industry Bankruptcies of 2011

Llewellyn Jones
Apr 27, 2022
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The first episode of the Investigative Economics podcast covers our recent stories on the high-profile bankruptcies in the renewable energy industry around 2011, when Romney accused the government of picking “losers.”

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