Written by Troy Cramer While calling an ambulance for an emergency is an incredibly stressful moment, an ambulance not arriving quickly makes this moment even more traumatic. For some communities in the US, that is a real threat. This threat is close to home in Ann Arbor, as seen in Flushing, a town just an…
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Op-ed: How ECO Compares to Other Economic Alliances Such as the EU
Written by Bartu Geyik Uzbekistan has recently hosted the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit of 2023, uniting many countries from West to South Asia. This economic cooperation has been ongoing for the past four decades, reaching 10 members during 1992 after the ex-soviet Central Asian countries joined the cooperation. The world is becoming multipolar, evidenced…
Why does American Economic Sentiment Remain low?
Written by Arnav Gupta As 2023 comes to a close, COVID-19 may seem like a distant memory– and that is partially true; the main effects of the pandemic were felt roughly three years ago. However, some effects continue to bear a lasting impact on not only the U.S. economy, but the people who interact with…
False Commodities: Karl Polanyi in the 21st Century
Written by Claire Arp “Nineteenth century civilization has collapsed,” So goes the opening words to The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi’s magnum opus that laid the foundations for the modern fields of economic sociology and anthropology (Polanyi, 1944). From the context of his life, it’s not hard to see where this perspective stems from; born to…
Embracing Femininity is Boosting the Economy
Written by Mihika Shukla The expression “girl economy” has become a new buzzword, littering the titles of many recent articles. The phrase is being used to describe the goods and services that directly target women (Zhang, 2023). While this word seems like another frivolous and light-hearted joke, its social and economic ripples have been felt…
The Ongoing Rise of the Esport Industry
Written by Connor Greig In the past several years, there has been a meteoric rise in a new kind of athletic competition. Its largest events have seen tens of millions of live viewers, its participants endure hours of daily training, and it has even been broadcasted numerous times on ESPN (Schudey et al., 2023). Instead…
The History and Future of Greenwashing in Finance
Written by Melissa Weinstein While the practice of greenwashing has been around in the finance industry for over two decades, many individuals still do not know the meaning of the principle and why it affects all investors. Greenwashing refers to the deceptive practice of portraying a company, product, or service as environmentally conscious and friendly…
Is AI taking over the job market?
Written by Tianqi (George) Sun Artificial intelligence has drastically taken the world by storm when ChatGPT was released. It has brought light to software developers’ work for decades. Everyone seems to have some use for the chat bot. To some students, the emergence of AI felt like paradise, because it saved them from writing their…
Op-ed: SMT Divergence for Directional Bias
Written by Tanner Buck Investopedia defines market makers as “a firm or individual who actively quotes two-sided markets in a particular security by providing bids and offers along with the market size of each.”(Investopedia). Market makers being both the buyer and seller of a particular security provide liquidity, the availability of these securities on both…
Social Media is the Future of Marketing
Written by Levi Beam What do you think is the future of marketing? Ask yourself this question and imagine the last 20 years of marketing while you do so. This might bring images of billboards, newspapers, infomercials, and YouTube ads. All of these methods of promotion take advantage of high density viewership—the basis of what…