The Rise in Electric Cars: Is a Start Up a Diamond in the Rough?
The EV industry is here to stay. At this point, it’s hard to tell who might strike gold next, but there are certainly still a few diamonds in the rough.
Intel: Fighting for its Life… and Losing
It has been a bad year for Intel. Despite the Silicon Valley Giants near record-high stock price, Intel could be on the defensive and playing catchup in the industry it once dominated.
High Performance Computing in Business
The Human Genome Project, a $3 billion project that took place from 1990 to 2003, sequenced the human genome for the first time. With significant advances in computing capabilities, the cost of producing a high-quality ‘draft’ human genome sequence has drastically decreased, costing only $1,500 in late 2015
Why Ant Group Was Squashed
While there are many reasons for the mammoth influence of Chinese companies, Ant Group’s story serves as a great anecdote for how and why these giants rise and fall.
Snowflake’s Hot IPO
In September of 2020, Snowflake had an immensely successful IPO starting at $120 per share and rising as high as $245.
What’s an NFT and Why Should You Care?
Mike Winkelmann, known to many as “Beeple,” just became the third most valuable living artist in the world. His latest piece sold for a whopping $69 million.
The Fall of Bitcoin
Bitcoin is about to run into the greatest challenge the cryptocurrency will ever face - economic policy and regulation.
Preparing Humanities Degrees for the Job Market
A college education used to be synonymous with ‘liberal arts’, back in a time when only the very upper echelons of society would (or could) pursue a degree at university. Philosophy, linguistics, history, and literature would prepare the young men (and they were almost always men) to be engaged and thoughtful members of society. A college education, in other words, was rarely a springboard into a specific vocation—a student could study the classics all he wanted and not worry about getting a job in that field. Today’s job market not only often demands a college education but also requires technical or professional degrees for an ever-increasing proportion of careers.
Cinema vs. Streaming
Your favorite franchise premieres its newest movie this Friday — you have been anticipating the release for months — but it's 2020, and now you have to make a choice. Do you choose to get out of the house and go to AMC Theatres to gaze up at your favorite characters on a premium 45-foot screen, enjoy a large bucket of all-too-buttery popcorn, and an extra-large Coke Icee? Or, do you decide to stream a different movie on Netflix from the comfort of your home, with your feet up, and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked from your freezer, and wait to watch the new movie until it is out of theaters?
Iran
A glooming military conflict with the United States, crippling economic sanctions, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, Iranians did not have much to celebrate this Nowruz, the Persian new year, in late March. As the continuation of the public health crisis puts more pressure on Iran’s already beleaguered economy, the regime is left with very few options.
Climbing the Steps to Success
When news broke that Jane Fraser was named Citi’s CEO, many celebrated, and rightfully so; the first woman to ever lead a top bank on Wall Street seemed to break the glass ceiling and prove to the public that Wall Street was not the stereotypical male-dominated locker room it once was (Fortune, 2020).But are these appointments truly indicative of a new era for Wall Street? How much progress has Wall Street actually made in making room for underrepresented groups? And what steps are we not addressing yet?
India’s Health Care System Faces Unprecedented Exertion Amid Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic comes at a time when the economic performance of India is at its lowest point in a decade and there are socio-political mass movements against a discriminatory citizenship bill (Chodankar, 2020). This makes us think about the current Hindu Nationalistic Government in power and its capacity to deal with a public health crisis.
Italy’s Coronavirus Economy: New Disease, Same Problems
Italy’s economy has long had serious structural issues which the coronavirus pandemic has only intensified.
When “Solidarity” Is Exclusive: Singapore’s Economic Response to COVID-19
The government is owed credit for efficient action and caring for the well-being of its citizens during the pandemic. But if there is one gaping hole in Singapore’s economic welfare response, it’s that it completely leaves out non-citizen and migrant workers.
Monopolies of the Market and Mind
Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook have taken full control of the technology market and subsequent consumer brainpower through their lucrative data-driven engagement strategies, leading to unprecedented profits, political censorship, and psychological dependence.
Street Vendors Impacted by COVID-19 in India
A large proportion of commercial activity in India is centered around street vendors and markets, the kind that require people to wade through crowds of people and are not conducive to the pandemic world.
Staying Out of the Red
As an incoming freshman at Wesleyan University, I never realized how my decision to study on-campus, study remotely, or to take a gap-year would have impacts that extended beyond my learning...Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, around the same time I was receiving my Wesleyan ED2 acceptance letter, schools began to close and financial losses began to occur.
The U.S. Federal Government’s Fiscal Response to COVID-19
The preliminary response to the pandemic was muted; rather than immediately banning travel to the United States and instituting stay-at-home orders, President Trump downplayed the danger of COVID-19. Leaked soundbites from February 7th have the president quoting that it is “more deadly than... your strenuous flus,” although he presented it to the public as just that— “a little problem” …