The Dominance of Visa
Social Media Companies Endanger Themselves by Acting as Content Filters
Social media companies are currently exposed in a more dramatic fashion than at any point since their ascent in the early 2010s. Regulation, election interference, and political bias dominated the discussion about social media companies this year, encouraged in large part by Facebook’s $126 billion price drop and a recent Congressional hearing in which legislators […]
Mobile Payments are Changing the Shape of Chinese Banking, Data Privacy, and Consumerism
Over the course of the last decade, China replaced the U.S as the flag-bearer for grossly-overindulgent consumer culture. According to CNN, China’s private debt reached 6.7 trillion at the start of 2018, comprising an incredible fifty-percent of China’s gross domestic product. Yet, if you walk the streets of China, you would be hard-pressed to find […]
San Francisco’s Housing: Where Does It Go From Here?
The price of housing in San Francisco has skyrocketed. A San Francisco-based real estate agency, Paragon, found that the median housing price in San Francisco has risen over $200,000 since the end of 2017 to October 2018. This is not a new development, as housing in this area has been extremely volatile, rapidly increasing for […]
A metaphor for all things under-rated
Microcredit, a concept spearheaded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed Yunus, received widespread admiration as a substitute for government poverty alleviation solutions. Based around the idea of social collateral, where borrowers are grouped together to assume joint responsibility for the repayment of a single loan, Microcredit boasted very high repayment rates and promising results. At […]
