Interview with Summer Sullivan
OLIVIA GINGOLD – APRIL 18TH, 2019 On the 22nd of March, BER Staff Writer Olivia Gingold sat down to speak with Summer Sullivan. Summer is a graduate student, pursuing her Continue Reading
Presidential Economics: A Series on Presidential Candidates’ Economic Proposals Part 4— Beto O’Rourke
OLIVIA GINGOLD – APRIL 17TH, 2018 In the first day after announcing his decision to run for president in the 2020 election, Beto O’Rourke raised an astounding $6.1 million—more than Continue Reading
Venezuela in Crisis
KATHERINE BLESIE – APRIL 16TH, 2019 A Café Con Leche? That will be 2,000,000 Bolivars, please. According to Bloomberg’s Café Con Leche Index, the price of a cup of coffee Continue Reading
Banking and Poverty: Why the Poor Turn to Alternative Financial Services
VASSILISA RUBSTOVA – APRIL 15TH, 2019 In an increasingly cashless world, it is difficult to imagine why someone would live without a bank account. Banking is typically viewed as the Continue Reading
Interview with Todd Messer
ABHISHEK ROY – APRIL 11TH, 2019 On the 13th of March, BER Staff Writer Abhishek Roy sat down to speak with Todd Messer. Todd is an Economics graduate student at Continue Reading
Presidential Economics: A Series on Presidential Candidates’ Economic Proposals Part 3—Elizabeth Warren
OLIVIA GINGOLD – APRIL 10TH, 2018 Unlike last week’s presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren is not new to politics. Quite the contrary, Warren has been a senator of Massachusetts since 2013. Continue Reading
The Pip in the Kiwi: An Analysis of the Automated Delivery Industry
ABHISHEK ROY – APRIL 9TH, 2019 The cute little food delivery robots called Kiwibots have always been an attraction among us freshmen. We’d always smile and point at the four-wheeled Continue Reading
A Smokin’ Hot Industry
OLIVIA GINGOLD – APRIL 8TH, 2019 A new industry has been blazing a trail in our economy for the last five years or so. This industry? None other than the marijuana Continue Reading
The Economics of Sports Stadiums: Does public financing of sports stadiums create local economic growth, or just help billionaires improve their profit margin?
KARTHIK VEGESNA – APRIL 4, 2019 Sports fans can be irrational. To someone watching from the outside, fans’ behavior is puzzling: their fanatical, unwavering support, and emotional investment in their Continue Reading
Economic Abuse
PARMITA DAS – APRIL 2ND, 2019 Analysis of the Phenomenon of Economic Abuse Economic abuse is a form of abuse where an intimate partner has control over the other partner’s Continue Reading