RetroSPACtive: just what were SPACs, anyway?
AIDEN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 EDITOR: LORENE LI If you were unfortunate enough to be a regular consumer of business-related news throughout 2021, you may have noticed a common Continue Reading
Proliferation of Big Money in Politics: How Did We Get Here?
SID GUPTA- OCTOBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN January 21, 2020 marked a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that Continue Reading
A Tale of Two Countries: A History of the Greek Debt Crisis
AAYUSH SINGH – OCTOBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI There’s a European proverb commonly heard in the continent’s politics: “fix the roof when the sun is shining.” The words are Continue Reading
A Choice to Destroy Lives: The Expiration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
AAYUSH SINGH – OCTOBER 9TH, 2022 In January of 2022, 3.7 million children fell into poverty. It was a policy choice. A few weeks earlier, Congress had failed to renew Continue Reading
The Chilean Path to Where? President Boric and the Return of the Left
SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – APRIL 11TH, 2022 EDITOR: ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH “Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, but it will also be its grave,” declared Gabriel Boric as he launched his campaign Continue Reading
Questioning the Efficacy of the Carbon Market
KAREENA HARGUNANI – NOVEMBER 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL After years of companies treating carbon emissions as a negative externality of market interactions, former governor of the Bank of England Continue Reading
The Case for a Cigarette Tax
NATRAJ VAIRAVAN – OCTOBER 28th, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE Background According to the CDC, in 2019, approximately 34.1 million adults living in the United States smoked cigarettes regularly, making Continue Reading
All Gas, No Brakes
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The Baby Buster Generation and the Economics of Fertility
RIA BHANDARKAR – MAY 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Fertility rates drive social, economic, and cultural trends, and current events determine fertility. That simple trend can seem terrifying since all Continue Reading
Is Jerome Powell Responsible for the Fed’s New Framework?
VASANTH KUMAR – APRIL 30TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEBASTIAN MARSHALL The COVID-19 recession and subsequent policy response have made Jerome Powell an important authority figure. Financiers, economists, and business leaders alike Continue Reading