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Macron’s Reforms are Critical for France’s Economic Future

The election of Emmanuel Macron as President of France in May 2017 was a novel development in French political history that revolutionized the status quo. The young president’s promises to fundamentally transform France had many feeling hopeful and optimistic about... Continue reading...

Markets

Selecting an Investment Manager

The financial world’s focus on investment managers is intense. Everyone involved in finance, from hosts on CNBC, to everyday investors looking for funds and fund managers to learn from and copy, is extremely interested in successful firms and what makes... Continue reading...

Technology

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... Continue reading...

International Technology

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... Continue reading...

Technology

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... Continue reading...

International Uncategorized

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... Continue reading...

Markets

Vertical Integration May Save Your Life

Healthcare in the U.S. is expensive.

In both the political and economic landscapes, healthcare has been heavily featured in the public dialogue, often accompanied with high-flown words, from overtones of governmental incapability to excessive cost inefficiencies, fraud and abuse. ... Continue reading...

Government

The Inevitable Failure of Trump’s Tariffs

Steel tariffs will allow American steelworkers to keep their jobs, help the American domestic economy, reduce United States’ dependency on China as a trading partner and foster the growth of the middle class.

This was the logic that motivated Donald ... Continue reading...

Government

Comparing the Bush and Trump Tariffs

On March 1st, 2018 President Donald Trump signed two proclamations imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum that have become subject to much public debate. “I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs ... Continue reading...

Dartmouth Technology

Unmasking Unmasked: A Look into Dartmouth’s Newest Startup

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the nascent world of online social networking was a space where people could create and foster an online social persona to connect with friends. Jack Dorsey limited the length of a user’s tweet to 140 characters.... Continue reading...

Dartmouth Business Journal

Macron’s Reforms are Critical for France’s Economic Future

Selecting an Investment Manager

Mobile Payments are Changing the Shape of Chinese Banking, Data Privacy, and Consumerism

San Francisco’s Housing: Where Does It Go From Here?

A metaphor for all things under-rated

Vertical Integration May Save Your Life

The Inevitable Failure of Trump’s Tariffs

Comparing the Bush and Trump Tariffs

Unmasking Unmasked: A Look into Dartmouth’s Newest Startup

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