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Egypt is Being Dramatic (Again)

ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – 2 FEBRUARY 2023 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY By the spring of 2022, the desert outside Cairo had a life of its own. Cranes hung over clusters of half-built Continue Reading

Posted On : February 2, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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The Japanese Economic Miracle

HANNAH SHIOHARA – JANUARY 26TH, 2023 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Economist Milton Friedman once said that “The best way to grow rapidly is to have the country bombarded.” Though it is Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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California Dreamin’ of a Bullet Train

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – 26 JANUARY 2023 EDITOR: GRIFFIN SHUFELDT Election night 2008 — as President Obama won a historic election with a sweeping mandate for progressive change, California voters approved Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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Why Leaving Nuclear Energy Behind is the Wrong Choice

JACOB HEISLER – JANUARY 26TH, 2023 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN The United States faces an energy crisis. America’s reliance on fossil fuels causes irreparable environmental degradation that will only increase in Continue Reading

Posted On : January 26, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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Why is everyone quitting their jobs?

DHOHA BARECHE – JANUARY 24TH, 2023 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG Quiet Quitting In 2021, a record high number of American workers quit their jobs in what economists have called the Great Continue Reading

Posted On : January 24, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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In Conversation with Professor Ming Hsu

SELINA YANG – DECEMBER 5TH, 2022 Ming Hsu is an associate professor at UC Berkeley, both in the acclaimed Haas School of Business and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. His Continue Reading

Posted On : December 5, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Economics and World War II: Keynes Did Not “Get It Right”

EVAN DAVIS- DECEMBER 2, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN What ended the Great Depression? If you answered World War II, you’d be in agreement with most. Even the U.S. government officially Continue Reading

Posted On : December 2, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Unbonded: Liz Truss and the collapse of trust in the British Parliament

AIDAN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 29TH, 2022 EDITOR: ANGELA CHEN Though only a fortuitous accident that this article was written around the right time, the resignation of Liz Truss puts an almost Continue Reading

Posted On : November 29, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Rethinking Socialism

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – NOVEMBER 28, 2022 When you hear the word socialism, what image does it conjure in your mind? Do you think of something similar to the Soviet Union? Continue Reading

Posted On : November 28, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Pay Transparency

HANNAH SHIOHARA – NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: KATHERINE MCKERNAN Pay transparency, which refers to the degree of openness between a company and its employees about how much people are compensated, and Continue Reading

Posted On : November 21, 2022 Published By : BER staff

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