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Wendover Productions gets one important thing right: Russia's opening invasion of Ukraine suffered serious logistical failures. Fuel shortages, abandoned vehicles, insufficient transport capacity and disrupted supply rou…
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Wendover Productions has identified a real problem: American development increasingly rewards buildings and businesses that can be reproduced cheaply, quickly and repeatedly. But its video, Why Everywhere in the US is St…
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Wendover Productions published its investigation into drone delivery in February 2022. Its central argument was persuasive: the grand promise of autonomous aircraft delivering anything to anyone had collided with restric…
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Wendover Productions makes a serious case about the environmental and human costs of electric-vehicle batteries. Unfortunately, its most dramatic claims repeatedly outrun the evidence. It confuses a mine's production wit…
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Wendover Productions has found an easy way to make Montenegro's Chinese-built highway look ridiculous: it costs roughly €1 billion and ends near a village with 15 residents. It's a memorable punchline. It is also an inad…
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Wendover Productions got the headline right and the seriousness wrong. In its December 29, 2021 global news roundup, Wendover described Vanuatu's citizenship-for-investment program as an unusual business proposition: app…
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Wendover Productions has identified something genuinely important: American, Delta and United have built enormous financial businesses around frequent flyer points. But its most dramatic conclusion—that the airlines them…
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The most misleading thing about comparing Africa with China is not the optimism. It is the suggestion that an entire continent can be assigned a place on another country's economic timeline. Wendover Productions makes an…
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Wendover Productions identifies a genuine economic problem: rockets will not become affordable simply because engineers make them reusable. The industry needs customers, regular launches and profitable reasons to transpo…
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The strongest criticism is not that the art market is properly regulated. It plainly has serious transparency and enforcement weaknesses. It is that Wendover sometimes turns a genuine vulnerability into a much simpler fi…
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Wendover Productions published Saudi Arabia's Oil Problem on September 23, 2021. Its central warning was legitimate: a monarchy dependent on petroleum revenues could not build a sustainable future simply by constructing …
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Wendover Productions makes a persuasive case that business travelers are disproportionately valuable to traditional airlines. Then it attempts to prove something much bigger: that a handful of expensive business tickets …
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The Interstate Highway System transformed America. It connected isolated regions, made freight transportation cheaper, improved road safety and helped create a genuinely national economy. Wendover Productions makes a con…
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Wendover Productions offers an appealing explanation for global inequality: geography makes some countries harder to develop, while an international economic system allows wealthy manufacturing nations to capture the rew…
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Tokyo's Olympic venues did not become abandoned monuments. But neither did they become the self-financing investments their promoters hoped for. Five years after the Games, the city's own figures reveal a more complicate…
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The episode gets the human tragedy right. Its account of how that tragedy happened is considerably less complete. Wendover Productions tells the story of Little Bay Islands through the rise of industrial fishing, the des…
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Wendover Productions presents an intriguing question: how can the Navajo Nation operate like a country while remaining inside the United States? Unfortunately, its explanation of the legal foundations of tribal sovereign…
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Wendover Productions makes a persuasive case for electric aviation. Then it makes a remarkable leap: it takes the economics of one subsidized regional airline route, applies an unproven 40% operating-cost reduction, and …
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Wendover Productions makes a compelling argument: Toyota understood something the rest of the automobile industry had forgotten. Just-in-time manufacturing does not mean eliminating every reserve. It means knowing which …
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Wendover Productions opens with a provocative correction: “Concorde was profitable.” On a narrow accounting basis, that is true. British Airways eventually made operating profits from Concorde, and Air France also report…
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Wendover Productions' 2021 documentary ends with a reassuring declaration: “The cruise lines will be fine.” The prediction was right. The explanation was considerably less convincing. The documentary presents the industr…
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The strongest weakness in Wendover Productions' March 2021 investigation is not its suggestion that China used vaccines to build influence. That strategy is credible, and some of the evidence is compelling. The problem i…
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Wendover Productions makes a compelling case against Britain's passenger-rail franchising system. Three successive private operators failed on the East Coast route, the government repeatedly took over, and the pandemic f…
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Wendover Productions built its 2021 argument around an attractive proposition: when an industry enters a crisis, established companies and newcomers reach the same crossroads. The smaller competitor can choose a better r…
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Wendover Productions identifies a genuine obstacle to electric vehicle adoption: America needs a reliable charging network before millions of drivers can confidently abandon gasoline. But its most dramatic piece of evide…
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Wendover Productions makes a serious case against America's air ambulance industry. Its strongest evidence concerns private-equity ownership, extraordinary charges, weak price competition and patients who cannot choose t…
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Wendover Productions identifies one of Australia's most extraordinary public expenditures: nearly A$1.2 billion for an offshore refugee-processing system holding fewer than 300 people in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The i…
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Wendover Productions identified a genuine scandal in its 2020 roundup: Honduras's former national police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla, known as El Tigre, was accused of protecting cocaine shipments for a network connected t…
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Wendover Productions makes a persuasive case that the global plastic-recycling system was economically dysfunctional. Its more ambitious accusation, however, is considerably less precise: that the plastics industry delib…
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Wendover Productions makes a persuasive case that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could transform East Africa. But the episode makes a consequential mistake: it treats generating electricity as though it automaticall…
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Wendover Productions makes a serious accusation about American Airlines: that the airline used threatened service cuts to pressure Congress into approving another taxpayer-funded bailout. It is a legitimate line of inves…
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Wendover Productions presents card counting as a remarkably reliable way to turn blackjack into a profitable business. The mathematics behind card counting is real. The problem is that the video moves from a mathematical…
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Wendover Productions made a compelling prediction in September 2020: distributing COVID-19 vaccines could prove harder than developing them. Its case rested on a frightening combination of ultra-cold storage, limited air…
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Wendover Productions builds its closing argument around a seductive proposition: America could largely solve unauthorized immigration by making legal immigration accessible, as Canada supposedly has. There is one rather …
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The most important weakness in Wendover Productions' argument is not that Iran's compensated kidney program failed to increase transplantation. It did. The problem is that the video treats the disappearance of a waiting …
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Wendover Productions makes a powerful case that the Marshall Islands have been abandoned to environmental destruction. But a documentary about a country's possible disappearance cannot afford to confuse a climate target …
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Wendover Productions set out to explain a genuine problem in July 2020: America could collect COVID-19 samples faster than its laboratories could process them. Its account of Quest Diagnostics' overnight aircraft network…
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Wendover Productions tells a compelling story about China and Taiwan buying diplomatic loyalty across the Pacific. Its central argument is that China spends heavily on impressive but ineffective infrastructure, while Tai…
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Wendover Productions explains why helicopter airlines failed, then points toward advanced vertical takeoff aircraft as a possible revival of city-center aviation. The historical explanation is persuasive. The weakness is…
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A video warning viewers not to trust their instincts about danger should at least get its own mathematics right. Wendover Productions’ The Five Rules of Risk makes a memorable opening comparison: an American licensed dri…
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Wendover Productions tells an appealing story about aviation's response to COVID-19: passenger airlines grounded their customers, filled their aircraft with freight, and discovered an unexpected way to make money. The un…
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On April 21, 2020, Wendover Productions published How Offshore Oil Rigs Work, an otherwise informative explanation of the enormous engineering and logistical costs of extracting petroleum beneath the ocean. Its most cons…
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The US Navy's Mercy and Comfort look extraordinary on paper: 1,000 hospital beds apiece, 80 intensive-care beds and 12 operating rooms. But the number that matters is not how many patients fit inside these ships. It is h…
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Wendover's March 24, 2020, assessment got one thing spectacularly right: COVID-19 inflicted a historic blow on aviation. But its explanation of the industry's future left out one of the most important forces determining …
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Wendover Productions explains the 2020 US Census as an extraordinary logistical achievement: a decade of preparation, 248 temporary field offices, more than half a million temporary workers, satellite mapping, and repeat…
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Wendover Productions’ February 2020 explanation of how Boeing would return the 737 MAX to service makes a compelling case that the recovery would be difficult. But several of its most dramatic claims were either poorly q…
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Wendover Productions tells a remarkable construction story. Thousands of workers, a state-owned engineering giant, prefabricated buildings and military medical teams combined to deliver a 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan in t…
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Wendover Productions' January 2020 episode explains how ski resorts use multi-resort season passes to reduce their dependence on unpredictable snowfall. Customers pay before winter begins, companies secure revenue in adv…
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The central weakness in Wendover Productions' 2019 analysis is not that its numbers are necessarily false. It is that the video repeatedly treats audience reach as evidence of commercial success without establishing how …
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The strongest criticism of Wendover Productions' 2019 documentary is not that St Helena Airport was useless. It is that the documentary presented a long-term economic rescue plan whose financial assumptions were already …
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