After a marathon Senate session full of gut-wrenching twists and turns, the Senate has finally passed Biden’s enormous America Rescue Plan with many of its original proposals well intact. Given its $1.9 trillion price...
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The minimum wage has been the subject of some of the most polarizing political and economic debates in the past century. It was once universally accepted that an increase in wages would unambiguously raise unemployment, but new...
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair” declared Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 250,000 thousand civil rights protesters over the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C...
The controversial fiscal and monetary policies that were implemented as a result of the 2008 housing market crash may have prevented further damage to the economy, but they have not fixed the fundamental problems that caused the...
America’s media industrial complex is one that receives fervorous attacks from both the left and the right. President Donald Trump’s criticism of “fake news” played a crucial role in his campaign and time in office...
The global financial crisis of 2008 devastated many countries around the world and demonstrated the fragility of our economic system. However, French and German banks faced a particularly desperate situation. They have been...
On December 31, 2019, the first reported case of the highly contagious novel coronavirus COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China. Within just three months of the first recorded case of COVID-19, the breaks were violently slammed on...