The Road to Growth
It is day four of our trek into Machu Picchu. For the past three days I have been immersed in what can only be described as paradise on Earth: Hummingbirds, orchids, wildlife, and views that truly take your breath away. The Salkantay Trail Trekking through the Peruvian jungle along the Salkantay Trail is described as […]
A Season of Revolution
Thomas Jefferson once said that every generation needs a new revolution. That’s sometimes a difficult statement to unpack for a thriving democracy such as our own, as I’m sure TJ wouldn’t have advocated our middle class picking up their pichforks and storming their capital every 35 years (and they’re coming dangerously close to that in […]
An Inconvenient Truth About the Economic Environment
Speaker John Boehner forwarded at three paragraph letter (wow, that must have been pretty comprehensive!) to the White House from 150 economists saying, among other things, “To support real economic growth and support the creation of private-sector jobs, immediate action is needed to rein in federal spending.” An interesting and valid claim, but one which does […]
A look at the New Deal and new deals
I spent the summer of 2010 attempting to run the final stretch of achieving my masters degree: writing my exit paper. This paper could be of any topic of my choosing, as long as I had a faculty member at Miami that was willing to advise along the way. I knew from the get go […]
What you can’t talk about at the dinner table
My current state of affairs lends itself to a lot of… introspective time. I have time to think a lot, read a lot, write a lot (hence this blog), and also play a lot of Tropico, the only computer game I brought to Denver. Call me a dweeb, but being the dictator of a small […]
The Great Recession in the long run
About two years ago I can recall sitting in the back of my econ 417 class. It was a class which focused on business cycles; what they’re caused by, their effects, etc. I remember that this particular day, my professor had been thinking on the topic, and advised that given the recent cataclysmic economic collapse […]
