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
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
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
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