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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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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

Posted On : March 3, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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The Macroeconomics of Happiness: A Case Study of Bhutan

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

Posted On : March 2, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Fed Accounts and the Right to Save

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

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

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