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The Parade of Inequality: Investigating Exacerbated Disparities

HANNAH SHIOHARA-OCTOBER 25, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN The Parade  Imagine you are at a parade. Between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., every single person in the economy will walk in Continue Reading

Posted On : October 25, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Global Debt’s Vibe Shift

ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – OCTOBER 20TH, 2022 EDITOR: SELINA YANG When I spoke with New York Assemblywoman Pat Fahy in September, she was days out from a press conference on her Continue Reading

Posted On : October 20, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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The Fundamental Problem with US Environmental Policy

JONATHAN LI – AUGUST 30TH 2022 I. US Environmental Framework  In 1712, British ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented the first widely used steam engine, paving the way for the Industrial Revolution Continue Reading

Posted On : August 30, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Vitalizing Entrepreneurship after COVID

JONATHAN LI – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2021 EDITOR: DIVYA VEMULAPALLI I. The Impact of COVID on small-businesses On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, Continue Reading

Posted On : November 9, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : May 3, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : April 30, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Exporting Asia

ANI BANERJEE – APRIL 14TH, 2021 EDITOR: DIVYA VEMULAPALLI In The Beginning, There Was Trade This is possibly the most familiar of all stories about modern Asia: a once poor Continue Reading

Posted On : April 14, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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In the Shadow of the Slump: The Depression of 1920-1921

DAVIS KEDROSKY – MARCH 18TH, 2021 EDITOR: RAINA ZHAO Overshadowed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Depression of 1920-1921 appears, if at all, as a footnote to the Continue Reading

Posted On : March 18, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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“Water Finds the Leak”: How Federal and State Governments Lost Billions to Pandemic Aid Fraud

JAIDE LIN – MARCH 15TH, 2021 EDITOR: AMANDA ZHANG Introduction When the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package was greenlit through bipartisan compromise in late March, the $260 billion in emergency unemployment Continue Reading

Posted On : March 15, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 4, 2021 Published By : BER staff

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