Bitcoin: How Did We Get Here?

Covering Business at Dartmouth and Beyond
In a culture where owning a home is seen as an important stepping stone toward achieving the American Dream, many young potential homebuyers viewed the recent December 2017 U.S. Congressional tax bill as another impediment to their goals of moving out of rented apartments and their parents’ basements. While the bill’s advocates praise the unabashedly-named […]
Is the future African? According to the UN report, a third of all people on earth will be African by 2100. Although this is only a projection, if history is any indication, the population of Africa will be much four times larger than it is today. The World Economic Forum shows that while the population […]
The nature of venture capital (VC) investment is highly uncertain. When startup investors pick their investments, they may end up with a return anywhere from zero to 50 times what they put in. The National Venture Capital Association reports that companies financed in their early stages by VC account for over 20 percent of the […]
If I were to ask you to think deeply about your hometown, you would probably remember the fond times that you had growing up in your bustling city, quaint suburb or peaceful countryside. Whether your grocery store was the only one available for 15 miles or was on the ground floor of your apartment building, […]
The stock market has always been about using your knowledge and skills to accomplish returns. You buy stocks that you think are undervalued and you short stocks that you think are overvalued, and you either make money if you are right or lose money if you are wrong. However, since the 1990s, a new method […]
Africa has become a hub for designers unafraid to create fashion statements embellished in colors as bold as the continent’s sunsets and in prints as culturally rich as its people. Their designs are cat-walking across runways both at home and around the world from New York to London to Tokyo. Despite its budding international fame, […]
Old clichés such as “bigger is better” are being swept under the rug as dozens of America’s largest department stores begin a process of drastically downsizing their businesses. The shift from traditional brick-and-mortar shopping to e-commerce has posed a challenge for major department stores such as Macy’s, Neiman Marcus and Sears. As each company struggles […]