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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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