The Economics Review

Inflation: Friend or Foe?

How current economic conditions prevent inflation from being a serious issue in the near future

Monetary Policy for the Next Recession

How dual interest rates can give central banks an unlimited capacity to combat recessions when the policy rate runs out of steam.

Economic Theory, Haanbi Kim

Modern Monetary Theory in 2021: Legitimate Economic Policy or Political Scheme?

In an introductory macroeconomics class, students are taught this sequence of events: as the central bank prints more currency, money supply increases, interest rates decrease, spending increases, and aggregate...

Aaron Puthan, Business

SPACs – An old idea with a new following. Risks and Opportunities.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, have seen a meteoric rise in popularity...

Business, Garrett Boyce

Optimism in the Hospitality Industry

The hospitality industry has been doing shockingly well during the pandemic, and investors have taken notice. Here’s why.

Business, Haanbi Kim

Coupang Just Released a Mega-IPO, But It Still Isn’t the Next Amazon (Yet)

Korea’s biggest eCommerce retailer is on Wall Street, but Bom Suk Kim being the next Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma is still a bit too far fetched.

Domestic Affairs, Saurabh Kumar

The Price of Admission: Employee Burnout & When a Demanding Job Becomes an Abusive One

This past February, 13 first-year analysts in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division created a presentation about their experiences working at the firm...

Domestic Affairs, Will Rojas

Raising the Minimum

What a $15 minimum wage means for employment and the economy as a whole.

Domestic Affairs, Gaurav Kulkarni

The Reckoning of the Energy Giants: The Battle between the Oil and the Biden Administration

A contentious conversation is starting to emerge over the future of energy production in the United States...

Revan Aponso, World

Ratings Downgrades and Foreign Relief: An Overview of the Sri Lankan Debt Crisis

Towards the end of last year, three major ratings agencies, S&P Global Ratings, Moodys, and Fitch Ratings, all downgraded Sri Lanka’s credit ratings...

Shriya Chitale, World

How Saudi Aramco is Destroying Saudi Arabia’s Economy

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s wealthiest countries – with a plethora of natural resources and a newly burgeoning tourist industry, the country’s economy only continues to grow...

Rodrigo Camara Rowe, World

A Golden Past But a Troubling Future – Pemex

Once the Mexican government’s crown jewel, Pemex now faces serious financial issues and nothing so far seems to alleviate its condition. What will be the fate of the oil...

Business, Roshni Rangwani, Technology

An Open Heart: The Tech Business Model of the Future?

Technology has virtually revolutionized every industry in the global economy, and the market caps of Silicon Valley giants routinely outshine the GDP of entire nations.

Roshni Rangwani, Technology

Can cloud seeding reveal the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Water scarcity is forcing governments around the world to adopt increasingly outlandish schemes to protect access to the precious resource.

Greg Pustorino, Technology

Space Race Mark Two

Could a booming private sector diversity the aerospace industry and accelerate NASA’s Artemis mission?

Aima Anwar, Archive, Campus and Community, Domestic Affairs

The New Normal: Learning Losses from COVID

The global economic implications of COVID-19 have been dominating the headlines this year, but one facet of today’s economy that is often overlooked is the learning loss that can...

Archive, Campus and Community, Shriya Chitale

College Costs and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the way we interact with each other — especially in the academic sphere...

Campus and Community, Domestic Affairs, Tom Jankowski

The Desolation of Loans

Student loans may prove to be the nail in the coffin of post-COVID economic recovery.