The American Austerity Playbook
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: ALLY MINTZER In his 2012 bid for the American presidency, Senator Mitt Romney’s core economic plan was to cut taxes by $4.8 trillion and Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: ALLY MINTZER In his 2012 bid for the American presidency, Senator Mitt Romney’s core economic plan was to cut taxes by $4.8 trillion and Continue Reading
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
CHAZEL HAKIM – MARCH 2ND, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Situated deep in the eastern Himalayan mountains, Bhutan is often overshadowed by its more prominent neighbors: China and India. But, despite Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – FEBRUARY 15TH, 2021 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM The great banking innovation of the 20th century was deposit insurance, a policy that ended the bank runs that had plagued Continue Reading
ALLY MINTZER – DECEMBER 3RD, 2020 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG If you have ever taken an introductory economics course, there’s a good chance you learned about Pareto efficiency. If you haven’t—or Continue Reading
SZE YU WANG – NOVEMBER 23RD, 2020 EDITOR: RAINA ZHAO On September 30, the two candidates for the president of the United States faced off in an ugly, chaotic debate. Continue Reading
GRACE JANG – OCTOBER 27TH, 2020 EDITOR: ABHISHEK ROY Background Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, the pandemic has reached and spread across other countries at different speeds. Continue Reading
JEFF SUZUKI – SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2020 EDITOR – RAINA ZHAO Across the United States, economics groupies, usually young, white, and male, saunter around college campuses with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged Continue Reading
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OLIVIA GINGOLD – MARCH 10TH, 2020 EDITORS: CHAZEL HAKIM, ANDREW BABSON We’ve all been there before: you are digging around in your fridge for that jar of jelly to put on Continue Reading