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...

Business, Revan Aponso

Voltswagen: An April Fools Joke Gone Wrong

Volkswagen saw the annual day of comedic relief and foolery as a chance to announce their goals of increasing their market share in the Electric Vehicle industry...

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.

Domestic Affairs, Varshika Prasanna

Mortgage Rates: The Housing Market Boom in a Pandemic

While the US has seen a record number of home sales during the pandemic, the mortgage market has been reacting very severely to these changes...

Domestic Affairs, Saurabh Kumar

Hardly Working: The Case for Changing the Official Unemployment Measure

At the beginning of this month, The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in its monthly Employment Situation Summary that the nation’s unemployment rate is down to six...

Domestic Affairs, Haanbi Kim

Supercommuters, Remote Work, and Freelance Work: A Summary of Unorthodox labor during the 2010s and 2020s

This article will dive into the main phenomena of labor and migration patterns over the past 3 - 5 years, and why they are important.

Garrett Boyce, World

The Effect of Terrorism on Mozambique’s Economy

An example of the economic effects of insurgency and what newfound instability could mean for a country in need.

Gaurav Kulkarni, World

Healthtech in Africa

Can up and coming healthcare startups in the continent change the way medicine and treatment is administered?

Shriya Chitale, World

The Economic Tensions Between Poland and the EU

As Poland continues to move away from the traditional EU values of democracy and peace in favor of authoritarianism, it is important to investigate what would happen to Poland’s...

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.