Jenna Issa

While Chicago recently went from 37.2 inches of snow (NBC Chicago 2021) to low 50s and sunny within a couple months, humid and sunny Texas saw its first arctic freeze since 1989 (Spectrum Local News 2021). These…

Harman Dhilon

Life on the Red Planet — Many have dreamt about it, now it may actually happen. NASA is hard at work planning to send a man and a woman to Mars in 2024. They plan to use lessons from life on the Moon to colonize Mars

Pranet Swain

We’re barely a week into a period of historically low temperatures in Texas, and the cons of abandoning the income tax are already starting to reveal themselves. As a result of not charging any income tax for its citizens…

Vivian Kaleta

In March 2018, Toys ‘R’ Us announced that they were permanently going out of business and closing all 800 of their stores in the United States, as well as the 800 more around the world (Verdon 2018). From being in…

Chase Harding

The pandemic has brought hardship to millions around the nation, and as we enter this new year, sports fans are still grappling with nail-biting seasons of cancellations and disappointment. We all remember back in the…

Brooke Hemingway

As Jeff Bezos steps down from the role of Amazon CEO, he is turning his attention to Blue Origin, his private commercial space company that hopes to establish a permanent base on the moon. This is not the only piece of…

Sujan Garapati

The movement started in 2012 outside a McDonald’s in New York City with “several dozen protesters chanting: ‘Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay’” (Greenhouse 2012). The demand for a $15 per hour national…

Jenna Issa

As it almost reaches a year into the pandemic, millions of Americans are faced with one of the most grueling, unfortunate things one can face — food insecurity. By definition, food insecurity is a household’s inability to…

Chase Harding

Imagine tons of teens sneaking onto the Nike SNKRS app during their first period class, hoping not to take another “L” on their favorite pair of Jordan 1s. This is sneaker reselling — buying a profitable, “hype” brand of shoe…

Pranet Swain

2020 will forever be remembered as the year during which millions, if not billions of people were directed to quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this current recession that the world is still trying to…

Brooke Hemingway

As 2020 came to a close, the circulation of coronavirus vaccines made consumers and investors alike optimistic about economic recovery. However, mutations of the virus have threatened to stall this progress…

Pranet Swain

We’ve all had our fair share of anxiety regarding this recent presidential election. And now, it is finally over. The U.S. economy is in for a lot of changes. Of the adjustments the economy will undergo, the ones that stand…

Pranet Swain

For many years, making moves on the stock market had been reserved for the richest of the rich. However, the advent of online trading platforms like Robinhood and TD Ameritrade has brought a much younger, middle-class…

Harman Dhillon

The U.S. Department of Education counted over 4,000 colleges in the United States as of 2018. These consisted of public and private institutions, but regardless of their categorization, college tuition has increased over…

Isai Steven Sanchez

The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the world’s pre-2020 economic infrastructure and social norms. For the past 10 years consumers have moved to digital payment methods proving to be more convenient and…

Blake Berry

Systemic poverty is just one-way racism manifests in our country. What is Systemic Poverty? It is the reality that institutions such as banks, universities, and other facets…

Brooke Hemingway

Inflation has always been the Federal Reserve’s boogeyman. For four decades, the bank has employed preemptive rate rises to keep inflationary pressure in check. Now, as a result

Harman Dhillon

Those who grew up in the early 2000s might vaguely remember going to a place with shelf after shelf stocked with all the movies anyone…

Chloe Young

Individual retailers make clothes that imitate the trends created by high society brands. These clothes are quickly mass-produced, resulting in detrimental effects on both…

Brooke Hemingway

August 1st marked the beginning of many high school seniors’ college journeys with the release of essay prompts from hundreds of schools across the United States…

Dylan Partner

Aging brings upon new experiences and habits which affect spending and saving habits. In general, the older one gets the more they will learn from their mistakes…

Gustavo Borges

For something that is so important to the everyday lives of average Americans, wage growth statistics tend to be thrown around without much analysis. Strangely, depending on who you’re talking to, wage growth has…

Brooke Hemingway

June 2020 has been marked by protests and violent rioting throughout many of America’s most populous cities. The protestors have been driven by anger about the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer…

Brooke Hemingway

When it comes to gender equality within the workplace, there are plenty of shocking statistics. According to Women in the Workplace, only 28% of women hold senior vice president positions in corporations and women are…

Eleanor Sigel

Cried out by demonstrators nationwide, this slogan makes no attempt to conceal the grievances behind the recent wave of protests and riots. Beginning on May 28 in Minneapolis after police officer Derek Chauvin…

Oscar Boccelli

Coronavirus has expanded all over the world. Originally from Wuhan, China, the disease has devastated populations, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Apart from the obvious medical implications of the virus..

Tiana Luo

During my last trip to the department store, I stopped by LensCrafters to check their prices. Sure enough, the plainest, most innocuous pair of glasses cost a hundred and fifty dollars. And I thought I was getting ripped off when I purchased…

Matthew Turk

Using a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is best described as a mysterious alternative to PayPal. That is partially one of the main reasons why so many criminals use Bitcoin to transfer money. But for the majority of investors who are not criminals, the entire concept of cryptocurrency can seem...

Rohan Jain

As I have learned from reading the book “Naked Economics” by Charles Wheelan, humans tend to be risk-averse when it comes to making decisions. Especially as the complexity levels increase, (such as kids, income, etc.) people tend to lean towards…

Ian Shayne

Since the inception of the United States, liberals and conservatives have often argued the extent to which the government should involve itself in the economy. In 2008, Wall Street investment banks nearly destroyed the world’s economy and…

Rohan Jain

This argument is dependent on how you define the terms rational and irrational. In terms of behavioral economics, rational can be defined as maximizing your utility logically in one area, while irrational can be defined as…

Nia Robinson

At seventeen years old when someone asks me what I want my future to entail, I can easily answer the question. “Well first I will get my Ph.D. in Economics, then I will be an Economics Professor at some Ivy League, then I will get with…

Miro Ehrfeld

Political crisis in Syria and other war stricken areas have led to an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers throughout Europe within the last two months. With hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding through the European border, leaders are torn between stability and…

Austin O'Toole

or the past couple of months, people have been telling me that I’ve been risking my precious life by eating at Chipotle. The company has been plagued by a series of unfortunate events, in which an E. Coli outbreak was linked…

Austin O'Toole

In an attempt to gain more revenue and outperform the markets, more high-net-worth individuals and institutions are turning to private equity as an alternative investment. At a glance, this alternative appears to be in…

Nia Hill

“Chiraq”- the unsought name of this beautiful city, Chicago. Mostly because of the horrendous number of crimes that occur on all sides of town. People are starting to realize that this violence is taking such a huge toll on the city- not only a social toll, but also…

Jonathan Switzer

n recent years, global mass media has touted the excellence of foreign education systems relative to those found in the United States. Over and over, reports of academic ferocity - especially from Asian nations - have cast the sustainability…

Miro Ehrfeld

The "wealth gap" has been a controversial and persistent issue in free market societies around the world. For decades, economists and politicians have been debating and implementing a variety of strategies in an attempt to alleviate the…

Miro Ehrfeld

Year after year the number of unemployed college graduates accumulates. Despite extensive reemployment programs, many younger people are forced into jobs instead of careers. According to the Huffington Post, 57% (or more than 2 million) of college graduates…