There are still eight months before the first presidential debate, and while the parties have not made their platforms official, people are already scrutinizing the differences between the two candidates: Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Despite the apparent differences, there is one area where Biden and Trump have something in common.
— Patrick McFarland
Read MoreAs young jobseekers graduate from college and enter the workforce, they face a daunting challenge: finding affordable housing in a tight rental market. With increases in housing prices outpacing wage growth, many of the lowest-earners in our society fear being left on the street.
— Kenneth Jackson
Read MoreSpeaking in the Lohrfink Auditorium at an event sponsored by Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo praised the “incredible opportunity we have as a nation to unleash the next generation of American innovation, protect our national security, and preserve our global economic competitiveness.” She was, of course, speaking of the recent, under-the-radar passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, along with new Biden administration trade rules.
— Asher Maxwell
Read MoreLiz Truss resigned on the morning of October 20. In her mere 44 days as Prime Minister (the shortest of any Prime Minister in British history), Truss managed to crash the British economy, create yet another political crisis for Britain, and then promptly resign.
— Andrew Wong
Read MoreFollowing President Biden’s signature of approval earlier last month, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has officially become the law of the land.
—Zach Fotiadis
Read MorePresident Joe Biden and the Democratic party are faced with a historical storm of events as a world barely emerging from a pandemic is now reckoning with a war in Europe. These volatile global events have spurred an alarming rise in inflation, causing many Americans to feel as if Biden has fallen short of his promise to recover the economy.
— Angela Yu
Read MoreTying countries together economically intended to construct a system for automatic and discretionary consequences for aggressive action. However, through the decades of relative international peace we have yet to see a successful, full-scale test of this ideology. Russia’s war on Ukraine highlights the failures of economically bonded world peace.
— Elizabeth Johnson
Read MoreIn an attempt to lower the price tag of the Build Back Better plan, the White House has cut tuition-free community college from the spending bill. The decision to sacrifice tuition free community college in exchange for a cheaper spending bill may end up costing the American government more in the long run in unemployment benefits and economic stimuli.
— Katie Cooper
Bitcoin’s underlying technology, still carries tremendous transformative potential.
—Adam Ginsburg
Read MoreI would argue that the spirit of a Luddite has never quite died, even if the stigma disappeared. Ever since the industrial revolution, new innovative ideas that require mass production and unskilled labor have developed incessantly.
—Zachary Magid
Read MoreThis past spring, the Trump administration decided to place tariffs on cheap Chinese steel, a good that China specializes in.
—Sina Nemazi
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