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The Federal Reserve’s Statement on U.S. Monetary Policy
From December 12-13, the Federal Reserve held a meeting on the next era of monetary policy in the U.S. While interest rates are set to st...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Dec 28, 20233 min read

U.S. and E.U. Dispute over Green Subsidies
The implementation of the “Inflation Reduction Act,” beginning with the new year of 2023, has already promised to alter economic landscap...
Clarissa Sung
Apr 30, 20233 min read


Democrats Announce Economic Deal Investing in Energy and Health Care
On July 18, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he and moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had compromised on a new...
Matthew Inui
Aug 6, 20224 min read


Department of Labor Reports Highest Inflationary Increase in 40 Years
In their May report, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the relative amount...
Matthew Inui
Jul 13, 20223 min read


The Omicron Variant: An Economic Perspective
As the Omicron wave recedes, medical and news reports tell of the extreme stress and limits of the U.S. medical infrastructure. However...
Dhruti Pattabhi
Apr 5, 20222 min read


The West Responds to the Invasion of Ukraine
Tensions first began building two days before the invasion when Putin declared the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine independent...
Matthew Inui
Mar 9, 20224 min read


Paving the Way for the Future: The New Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
President Biden has implemented a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill which, according to a statement from the White House, aims to...
Hayleigh Evans
Sep 16, 20215 min read


Updates on Biden's Economic Policy
In the aftermath of economic recession, the White House must work efficiently to achieve recovery ― the aim of much of President Biden’...
Mahsa Forghani
Aug 8, 20213 min read


The Biden Administration: COVID and the Economy Updates
It is difficult not to acknowledge the similarities between the first 100 days in office of recently inaugurated President Joe Biden and...
Audrey Kim
Mar 20, 20216 min read


Tariffs, TikTok, and COVID-19: U.S.–China Relations
China and the United States — the world’s greatest economic superpowers — have experienced considerable fallout over the past few years.
Audrey Kim
Oct 24, 20204 min read


COVID-19 in the United States
President Trump answers questions concerning COVID-19 at a White House press conference on February 29, 2020. (D. Myles Cullen/White...
Ashley Kim
Mar 31, 20204 min read


Brexit: Britain’s Long-Awaited Exit from the European Union
After almost a year of conflict, negotiation, and failure, Britain formally separated from the European Union on January 31. Britain’s...
Ashley Kim
Mar 4, 20203 min read
Jussie Smollett Incident Timeline
Victim or criminal? Fox’s Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, was recently charged for filing a fake hate crime as a police report. The...
Krischan Jung
Mar 10, 20192 min read
California Water Tax
The California water crisis has been a huge issue for families concerned over the amount and safety of the drinking water they are...
Krischan Jung
Feb 3, 20192 min read
LAUSD Teacher Strike
📷 Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest school district in all of California, and the second largest in the entire United...
Lindsey Kim
Jan 29, 20194 min read
Banning E-Cig Flavors
📷 The use of E-cigarettes is becoming very popular among teenagers. A majority of these adolescents start smoking actual cigarettes...
Krischan Jung
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Supreme Court Set to Rule About Bans on Profane Trademarks
The Lanham Act governed by The United States Patent and Trademark Office sets a precedent on what kind of terminologies can be used when...
Daibik Chakraborty
Jan 7, 20192 min read
American-Chinese Tariff Impact on American Farmers
📷 After President Trump’s ultimatum of tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, the Chinese government responded by placing tariffs on $2...
Daibik Chakraborty
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Trump Administration's Tariffs on Turkey 2018
(Edited by Daibik Chakraborty) On July 15, 2016, a failed coup d’etat occurred in Turkey against the government of President Recep Tayyip...
Krischan Jung
Aug 16, 20183 min read
Trump Administration's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
📷 (Written in conjunction with Alicea Hernandez) In the United States presidential elections of 2016, candidate Donald Trump criticized...
Krischan Jung
Jun 7, 20183 min read
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