Minimum Wage and Unemployment: Is it time to break up with Neoclassical Economics?
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
Break A Leg (You’re Not Breaking Even)!: Broadway During the Pandemic
RIA BHANDARKAR – MARCH, 1ST, 2021 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH Like any industry which relies on consumers being willingly stuck in an enclosed space for an extended period of time, musical Continue Reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Produce Movement
Ria Bhandarkar – February 16, 2020 Editor: Aydin Maharramov The seemingly niche “ugly produce” industry exists at the intersection between environmental activism and agricultural economics. In the 2010s, new statistics Continue Reading
Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate
VASANTH KUMAR – NOVEMBER 17TH 2020 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH The September 2020 Jobs Report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) offered a solid, if not rosy, image of Continue Reading
Will COVID-19 Speed Up the Death of the American Mall?
RIA BHANDARKAR – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Since the emergence of Amazon, eBay, and other online alternatives to in-person shopping, traditional retail has experienced a slow decline. Shopping Continue Reading
Guns, Fees, Steel: The History of Payment Processors and Guns
AISHANI BANERJEE – OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: RAKSHA SEN On February 12, 2020, PayPal announced an unlikely partnership. Criminologists at the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the Continue Reading
Is Antitrust Enforcement Effective?
ALLY MINTZER – OCTOBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE Update: This article was written before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Oct 20th, 2020. In late September Continue Reading
The FinCEN Files: Two Failures in International Banking
VASANTH KUMAR – OCTOBER 21ST, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL On September 20, BuzzFeed News published the FinCEN Files: an analysis of over 2,100 leaked Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted to Continue Reading
The Repatriation of TikTok: Why is Washington Afraid?
JENNIFER JACKSON – OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 EDITOR: ANDREW BABSON On August 3 at the White House, President Trump said TikTok would be “shut down” by U.S. authorities, citing national security Continue Reading
Who Owns Your Company?
NICOLAS DUSSAUX – APRIL 21ST, 2020 EDITORS: JENNIFER JACKSON, PARMITA DAS Are financial institutions now leading the real economy rather than the opposite? Although some pundits seem to still differentiate Continue Reading