Investigative Economics

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 required prosecutors to prove that the car was locked beforehan...

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. Besides that, there have been various bills to s...

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 System (EMS) along with other countries like Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. Part of that agreement required member countries to keep their currency at a certain level through what was called the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ER...

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. More defendants were being convicted and sentenced rather than being ...