In today’s age of polarization, the executive branch has essentially unchecked control of the government. Legislators of the president’s party currently exist to rubber-stamp his appointments and initiatives. Even under the best of conditions, whenever Congress passes a law, the responsibility of implementing that legislation ultimately falls to the agencies…

This isn’t a time for moderation. After four years of terror, we finally have the chance to replace the devil in the White House with someone willing to put the interests of the country over his own personal enrichment. The problem is that Joe Biden looks ready to put bipartisanship…

This has been a very hard week in what was already a very hard year. We watched with horror hundreds of thousands of people die worldwide from an invisible disease, only to see an unarmed black man killed in a very visible act of police brutality. This wasn’t the first…

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) were all the rage this summer raking in an ungodly amount of money that made entrepreneurs, advisors, and celebrity endorsers lots of money. The issue is that for every great opportunity, there are a dozen fake scams trying to take your money, and both good and…

It is an easy and obvious argument to make that transfer payments do not increase total wealth. How can moving money from one person’s pocket to the another’s actually do anything? A transfer payment such as medicare, medicaid, social security, or any other form of entitlement or social welfare program…

The past two weeks have had me very very confused. Every Tuesday and Thursday I sit in FNCE 101 (intermediate macroeconomics) attempting to understand how interest rates affect the GDP, why taxes may not shift consumption, and why Bernanke says it’s great to run a current account deficit. The trouble…

If you were to ask me what I did this summer, and I were being honest, I would have to say I spent the summer regretting. I regretted the classes I took, the time I wasted, the clubs I joined, and more. What I regretted most of all though was…

Part of the beauty of finishing my freshman year of college is that now I have time to think. When life doesn’t revolve around “What questions are going to be on the BEPP Final?” “What do you think you got on the management final?” and “Whom did X take to…

What I’m about to say isn’t new. I’m not a thought leader, a visionary, or an original thinker. None of my ideas are innovative. In fact, that’s the whole point of this article. I came to Penn because of my love for startups and my dreams of becoming an entrepreneur…