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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Elder Care Facilities, Twitter, and Pot

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Free Money, Hospitals, and Private Equity Firms

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Contact Tracing, Debt, and the Oil Crash

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Fracking, Private Equity, and Hospitals

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Ring Frauds, PPP, Restaurants and Steak Houses

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  Warning! Self promotion alert. I did this...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Mental Health, Privacy, and Machine Learning

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  Happy Saturday, or whatever day it is....
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: YouTube, Food Banks and AI

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Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  No, this isn't about financial malfeasance, and...
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Is Regulation Jeopardizing Policy Response to Coronavirus Crisis? Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler Collect Red-tape Stories

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Two of the most well-known University of Chicago economists launched a website to collect examples of regulations that are limiting the United States' reaction to...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Covid-19 Models, Grocery Stores, and Bank Robberies

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Maybe we...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Walmart, Opioids, Oil Prices (and Coronavirus)

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  Oh my goodness, say it isn't so:...
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