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Amtrak: Future of American Transit or Failed Experiment?

FELIX ZHANG – MARCH 13th, 2023 EDITOR: ARYAN SHAFAT Since its inception, Amtrak has long been the source of great debate and controversy. Proponents point towards Amtrak’s ability to connect Continue Reading

Posted On : March 13, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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The Burmese Economic Burst and Opium Boom

MICHAEL ATHANASSIADIS – MARCH 7 2023 EDITOR: SELINA YANG Nestled near Myanmar’s mountainous borders with China, Laos, and Thailand, poppy fields are sprouting. Low-wage farmers are working the world’s second Continue Reading

Posted On : March 10, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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ChatGPT and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence – A Blessing or A Curse?

EVAN DAVIS – MARCH 7TH, 2023 EDITOR: LARA RAMIREZ Meet John. John is your average Letters & Sciences student at Berkeley. He’s a freshman, doesn’t know what he wants to Continue Reading

Posted On : March 7, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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Egypt is Being Dramatic (Again)

ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – 2 FEBRUARY 2023 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY By the spring of 2022, the desert outside Cairo had a life of its own. Cranes hung over clusters of half-built Continue Reading

Posted On : February 2, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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The Japanese Economic Miracle

HANNAH SHIOHARA – JANUARY 26TH, 2023 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Economist Milton Friedman once said that “The best way to grow rapidly is to have the country bombarded.” Though it is Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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California Dreamin’ of a Bullet Train

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – 26 JANUARY 2023 EDITOR: GRIFFIN SHUFELDT Election night 2008 — as President Obama won a historic election with a sweeping mandate for progressive change, California voters approved Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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Why Leaving Nuclear Energy Behind is the Wrong Choice

JACOB HEISLER – JANUARY 26TH, 2023 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN The United States faces an energy crisis. America’s reliance on fossil fuels causes irreparable environmental degradation that will only increase in Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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Why is everyone quitting their jobs?

DHOHA BARECHE – JANUARY 24TH, 2023 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG Quiet Quitting In 2021, a record high number of American workers quit their jobs in what economists have called the Great Continue Reading

Posted On : January 24, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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In Conversation with Professor Ming Hsu

SELINA YANG – DECEMBER 5TH, 2022 Ming Hsu is an associate professor at UC Berkeley, both in the acclaimed Haas School of Business and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. His Continue Reading

Posted On : December 5, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Economics and World War II: Keynes Did Not “Get It Right”

EVAN DAVIS- DECEMBER 2, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN What ended the Great Depression? If you answered World War II, you’d be in agreement with most. Even the U.S. government officially Continue Reading

Posted On : December 2, 2022 Published By : BER staff

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