Feb 13, 2021Cost-Effectiveness, the Value of Immortality, and the Future of Gene TherapiesThis past Thursday, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), published draft guidance recommending the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) not cover Bluebird Bio’s gene therapy Zynteglo. Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel) “is the first and only one-time gene therapy for transfusion-dependent β-thalassaemia (TDT) that gives patients the potential…Biotechnology6 min readBiotechnology6 min read
Nov 1, 2020It’s time to check the presidentIn 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…Politics4 min readPolitics4 min read
Published in Politically Speaking·Oct 21, 2020Democracy at all costsThis 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…Democracy8 min readDemocracy8 min read
Jun 5, 2020Choosing to Love over HateThis 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…Personal Development9 min readPersonal Development9 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Dec 27, 201712 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Investing in an ICOInitial 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…Blockchain6 min readBlockchain6 min read
Dec 24, 2017Transfer Payments are good for the EconomyIt 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…Economics8 min readEconomics8 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Sep 25, 2017Is Bitcoin Money?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…Bitcoin7 min readBitcoin7 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Sep 5, 2017ICOs, Fraud or the Future?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…Venture Capital5 min readVenture Capital5 min read
May 5, 2017Random Policy IdeasPart 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…Public Policy1 min readPublic Policy1 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Apr 5, 2017Thoughtrepreneurs: The Poison of the Student Startup SceneWhat 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…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
